Sunday 28 March 2010
AIC meets with Procter & Gamble to discuss Innovation in Australia
The AIC hosted two executives from Procter & Gamble (P&G) in December 2009 including Jeffrey Weedman, Vice President, Global Business Development and Steve Meller, Chief Innovation Catalyst.
The AIC and P&G discussed potential opportunities to collaborate on driving research activity from Australian industry and research organisations to commercialisation. Importantly, P&G was seeking to identify new networks in
The AIC is pleased to become a part of P&G’s global networks, a network that spans across a wide range of industries and countries to advance innovation. P&G will include the AIC in their network of connections as an Australian node to share technology needs, which can be connected into their network of businesses in Australia and New Zealand.
“Procter and Gamble were interested in meeting with the AIC to enable them to use the AIC’s knowledge of Australian innovation activity to help them identify Australian organisations they should be working with or talking to. At the same time, we were interested in meeting with Procter and Gamble to enable us to assist Australian organisations to present relevant research and products to this globally significant business” said AIC CEO Dr Rowan Gilmore.
“This network access will make it simpler for Australian businesses to potentially extend their value chain so they can reach customers globally. We are excited by this and the prospect of working with a global leader in innovation”.
The AIC is pleased to be able to facilitate introductions between Australian organisations and the key decision makers in this $76B per annum global business.
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