Contract Research

Current - Budapest

The Centre worked with a Hungarian entrepreneur to explore the feasibility of a for-profit school of information technology in Budapest. The project involved analyses of the market for IT education, the competition, the availability and interest of industry partners, and the funds required to build and launch the school. A novel "virtual partnership" model was developed and presented to the entrepreneur.

Aquincum Institute of Technology - http://graphisoftpark.com/aquincum-institute-technology

Article in The Budapest Times - 21 September 2008 - http://www.budapesttimes.hu/content/view/9246/27/

Archived - MLA

The Centre worked with Meat and Livestock Australia on ways of adding value to the meat processing chain. “Much of the co product and offal material from meat processing goes into pet food or into low value rendered products, but there is potential to recover valuable bioactive chemicals from it. Chondroitin, for example, is popular in complementary joint health products, whilst other compounds from red meat go into sports foods and even the pharmaceutical industry, where purified compounds can be very valuable and very expensive. A small vial of some of these compounds can cost thousands of dollars. We had biomedical and computer science PhD students looking at the commercial potential of various bioactive compounds and developing a computer program to allow executives in the meat processing industry to identify commercially attractive new products.”

Meat and Livestock Australia - http://www.mla.com.au/default.htm