Explore

Learn about innovation pathways and consider end-user needs

Activities

FEIT Endeavour Exhibition

https://endeavour.unimelb.edu.au
Curious about engineering and IT? Ready to explore what the future of technology looks like? Join us at Endeavour, an exhibition proudly hosted by the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology's (FEIT). This flagship event showcases cutting-edge projects developed by our final-year students, highlighting the innovation, creativity, and technical expertise shaping the future of engineering and IT. A cornerstone of the FEIT calendar, the Endeavour Exhibition forms a key component of our students’ academic coursework, while also providing a valuable platform to build industry connections and professional networks. Open to students, academics, and representatives from industry and government, Endeavour offers a unique opportunity to experience firsthand the solutions our students have delivered through year-long collaborations with real-world partners. Meet the next generation of engineers and IT professionals—and discover the ideas driving tomorrow’s technologies.

Melbourne BioInnovation Student Initiative

https://www.mbsi.org.au/
The Melbourne Bioinnovation Student Initiative (MBSI) is a not-for-profit organisation and charity, bringing together young people from diverse educational backgrounds who share an interest in medical technology or biotechnology

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Innovation Practice Program - For Industry

https://ipp.eng.unimelb.edu.au/for-industry
Through the Innovation Practice Program, organisations partner with Masters students from Engineering, Biomedicine, Architecture, Business and IT. You'll select a mentor from your organisation to work with a dedicated student team. Under their leadership, the team will develop innovative solutions to a real-life challenge facing your organisation.

Formal courses

Engineering Entrepreneurship

https://handbook.unimelb.edu.au/2026/subjects/engr90026
This subject is available as an elective in many of the Faculty of Engineering and IT Masters programs. It is aimed both at students who have immediate entrepreneurial intentions and at students who may be considering starting their own business at some point in their careers. The subject is designed to introduce all participants to their potential as entrepreneurs. By developing their own enterprise proposal within small groups, students will learn and demonstrate various processes by which successful new ventures move from idea to launch.

Social Entrepreneurship

https://handbook.unimelb.edu.au/2024/subjects/mgmt90165
This subject seeks to equip students with a critical understanding of the social enterprise form and support them in developing a startup social enterprise with the purpose of solving a social and/or environmental problem.

Develop

Act on your innovation ambitions and connect with customers

Activities

FEIT Endeavour Exhibition

https://endeavour.unimelb.edu.au
Curious about engineering and IT? Ready to explore what the future of technology looks like? Join us at Endeavour, an exhibition proudly hosted by the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology's (FEIT). This flagship event showcases cutting-edge projects developed by our final-year students, highlighting the innovation, creativity, and technical expertise shaping the future of engineering and IT. A cornerstone of the FEIT calendar, the Endeavour Exhibition forms a key component of our students’ academic coursework, while also providing a valuable platform to build industry connections and professional networks. Open to students, academics, and representatives from industry and government, Endeavour offers a unique opportunity to experience firsthand the solutions our students have delivered through year-long collaborations with real-world partners. Meet the next generation of engineers and IT professionals—and discover the ideas driving tomorrow’s technologies.

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Bio21

https://www.bio21.unimelb.edu.au
Bio21 Molecular Science and Biotechnology Institute (Bio21 Institute), is a multidisciplinary research centre specialising in medical, agricultural and environmental biotechnology.

The Creator Space

https://eng.unimelb.edu.au/the-creator-space
The Creator Space is an accessible fabrication lab located in the University of Melbourne’s innovation precinct, Melbourne Connect. It’s a space where technology and creativity combine to form innovative solutions.

Funding

CSL Research Acceleration Initiative

https://www.csl.com/research-and-development/awards-grants-and-initiatives/csl-rai
CSL’s Research Acceleration Initiative aims to fast-track discovery of innovative biotherapies through partnerships between CSL and global research organisations and companies.

InnovatEd

https://www.unimelb.edu.au/mec/melbourne-innovated
InnovatEd is an incubation program and educational resource for education innovations that aim to enhance teaching and learning or the student experience.

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Australian Clinical Entrepreneur Program

https://www.auscep.au/
The Australian Clinical Entrepreneur Program (AUSCEP), is an industry-leading innovation program designed to advance clinician-led transformation across Australia's healthcare workforce.

Ignite

https://ipp.eng.unimelb.edu.au/for-industry/o-lab
The Ignite program takes innovation concepts - including student innovation projects conceived in Innovation Practice Program subjects - and further develops the opportunity through prototyping, testing and validating hypotheses of the innovation. The IPP's Opportunity Lab (O-Lab) exists to support these projects. Projects are conducted by a team of 3 postgraduate students working together with a specialist from the sponsor organisation and supported by O-Lab Innovation Mentors. Projects are scoped to suit 36 (hu)man-weeks of effort and run over a 3 – 6 month period. O-Lab projects help sponsor organisations better decide whether or not to commercialise their ideas, and help researchers bring their work closer to market by positioning it for further research funding (e.g. SME Connect, Linkage Grants, CRC-P’s).

InnovatEd

https://www.unimelb.edu.au/mec/melbourne-innovated
InnovatEd is an incubation program and educational resource for education innovations that aim to enhance teaching and learning or the student experience.

SPARK

https://mdhs.unimelb.edu.au/about/innovation-and-enterprise/for-staff-and-students/resources/programs2/programs/spark-melbourne
SPARK provides education, mentoring and funding for translational research projects in Therapeutics, MedTech and Diagnostics over 2 years to advance academic discoveries from bench to bedside.

Validate

Test the commercial and technical aspects of your innovation

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Bio21

https://www.bio21.unimelb.edu.au
Bio21 Molecular Science and Biotechnology Institute (Bio21 Institute), is a multidisciplinary research centre specialising in medical, agricultural and environmental biotechnology.

Dookie Campus farm estate

https://science.unimelb.edu.au/about/our-locations/dookie/farm
At the Dookie Campus farm estate, work is underway with partners in industry, government and the community to help meet the challenge of food security.

Neo-bionica

https://www.neo-bionica.com
Neo-bionica is the world’s only CDMO focused exclusively on implantable and wearable electronics and electrodes for neuromonitoring and neuromodulation devices. From first concept to First-in-Human, we bring together the clinical, technical, and commercial expertise to help global innovators build clinical-grade devices that push the boundaries of what's medically possible.

The Creator Space

https://eng.unimelb.edu.au/the-creator-space
The Creator Space is an accessible fabrication lab located in the University of Melbourne’s innovation precinct, Melbourne Connect. It’s a space where technology and creativity combine to form innovative solutions.

WEHI National Drug Discovery Centre

https://nddc.wehi.edu.au
The NDDC is an initiative of WEHI and offers Australian medical researchers access to a fully staffed facility with drug screening expertise and the latest in robotic high-throughput technologies.

Funding

CSL Research Acceleration Initiative

https://www.csl.com/research-and-development/awards-grants-and-initiatives/csl-rai
CSL’s Research Acceleration Initiative aims to fast-track discovery of innovative biotherapies through partnerships between CSL and global research organisations and companies.

Pfizer Centre for Therapeutic Innovation (CTI)

https://www.pfizer.com.au/our-science/centre-for-therapeutic-innovation
The Centre for Therapeutic Innovation (CTI) facilitate authentic collaboration between Pfizer scientists and select academic medical centres, disease foundations, and National Institutes of Health. CTI's aim is to translate promising science into clinical candidates.

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Grow

Leverage the value of your innovation to scale and sustain impact

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Neo-bionica

https://www.neo-bionica.com
Neo-bionica is the world’s only CDMO focused exclusively on implantable and wearable electronics and electrodes for neuromonitoring and neuromodulation devices. From first concept to First-in-Human, we bring together the clinical, technical, and commercial expertise to help global innovators build clinical-grade devices that push the boundaries of what's medically possible.

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