Industry first partnerships.
At Tech Lab, we’re committed to helping you achieve your R&D goals. We take an agile, flexible, and partner-led approach to research projects, providing you with the capabilities, expertise, technologies, and equipment you need to bring your desired solution to market.
We facilitate collaboration between academia and industry in our dedicated research facility, ensuring that university research is applied to the real world and delivers economic impact. We also work with national and international industry partners to support new product development in an environment that promotes cross-collaboration and solutions-focused outcomes.
There are multiple ways to collaborate with Tech Lab. We offer a variety of partnership models to meet your specific needs, whether you’re a start-up, SME, or large multinational.
Benefits
- Direct access to state of the art laboratories and equipment
- Access leading academic and technical expertise
- Co-location with work space available for project teams
- Flexible approach to IP ownership
- Cross disciplinary engagement and project input
- Build talent pipelines with access to skilled students via interns and project support
- Stay informed on funding opportunities
- Leverage the Tech Lab ecosystem with multiple industry partners
- De-risk the path to commercialisation
Need R&D support?
We can work with your team to develop a bespoke solution.
Projects
Partnership Models
Tech Lab Membership
Our most advanced level of partnership offers comprehensive access to our facilities, R&D expertise and support to execute your projects from concept to deployment. We take a bespoke and responsive approach based on single or multiple projects identified by partners. Membership is covered by an annual subscription fee with a contract duration typically between 1-5 years.
Product Testing
Tech Lab provides access to laboratories for general purpose or routine data collection, product standardisation and testing. Partners may use their own staff or Tech Lab can act as a consultant, performing the tests and providing written reports and certifications as required.
R&D as a Service
Tech Lab can be contracted to undertake R&D on behalf of partners. Once you identify your project objectives, we work to an agreed timeline to deliver the outcome.
Joint-funded projects
Our most advanced level of partnership offers comprehensive access to our facilities, R&D expertise and support to execute your projects from concept to deployment. We take a bespoke and responsive approach based on single or multiple projects identified by partners. Membership is covered by an annual subscription fee with a contract duration typically between 1-5 years.
Rapid commercialisation
UTS Rapido are a team of professional engineers dedicated to achieving commercial outcomes for R&D projects. Rapido utilise an array of resources and facilities, such as 3D printing and data visualisation, and apply tech expertise to deliver hardware and software products and solutions.