Alford - Sensing Breakthrough

Sensing Breakthrough:Imagination, Inquiry & InnovationDr Kristin Alford, 9 March 2010

Discovery

Harvard Business Review, Create Three Distinct Career Paths for Innovators, by Gina Colarelli O’Connor, Andrew Corbett, and Ron Pierantozzi, http://hbr.org/2009/12/create-three-distinct-career-paths-for-innovators/ar/1

Creating or identifying high-impact market opportunities.

Incubation

Experimenting with technology and business concepts to design a viable model for a new business.

Acceleration

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Developing a business until it can stand on its own.

Innovation is…

Discovery

The Bionic Ear

Prof Graham Clark AO Challenges Technical

Financial

Social

Image: www.australianoftheyear.org.au

“ROD SAUNDERS was the first person to be implanted with a bionic ear, in a world breakthrough for Australian researchers almost 30 years ago. The first test four weeks after the eight-hour operation proved disappointing for researchers and the patient, who could hear only the hissing sound that many deaf people experience. Then came the "eureka" moment.”

Image: John Lamb, Sydney Morning Herald

Images: www.cochelar.com.au, www.chha-nl.nl.ca/supportgroups-cochlear.html

Global Business• Reached 100,000 people

in about 80 countries, restoring their hearing or helping them to hear for the first time.

• It remains a big Australian medical aid export and retains 70 per cent of the world's market share

Source: Sydney Morning Herald, February 14, 2008, Image: www.cochelar.com.au

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Need

Idea

Obstacles

Incubation or Experimentation

CSIRO & Flinders University Nanotechnology Teacher Professional Development

Liquid Crystals

• Liquid crystals are a state of matter with properties between those of a conventional liquid and those of a solid crystal.

• They may flow like a liquid, but molecules may be oriented in a crystal-like way.

• Thermotropic liquid crystals exhibit a phase transition as temperature changes

“Could you use these as thermometers? Our class is doing a unit on climate change and energy efficiency and we’ve been looking for ways of controlling when the air con is switched on. And we don’t want to put a mercury thermometer in every classroom.”

LCD Thermometers

What else?

It won’t work in winter.

It’s not waterproof.

It’s not robust enough.

It only does temperature.

The colour strip is hard to interpret.

The intervals are too large to be useful.

The materials have to be sourced from overseas.

It would probably be too expensive.

It’s not environmentally-friendly.

Fix colour of strip

Use paper to package rather than plastic

Investigate other materials and coatings to make it more robust

Consider adding strips to detect humidity

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Need

IdeaObstacles

Potential

Acceleration or Implementation

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December 2, 2008

How is nanotechnology driving cleantech growth?

February 6, 2009

Company OverviewCleanFutures has an exclusive license for phosphate, nitrate and sulfite detection.

LicencePersonnel

Series A Investors

Shareholding

John O’Brien Corporate Services & Investor Relations• Engineering & Management degrees from Oxford, Dublin and Adelaide• Founder of Australian CleanTech

that advises cleantech companies and investors on the cleantech sector• Former Development Executive at Origin Energy

Dr. Kristin AlfordChief Executive Officer• PhD in minerals processing engineering from

University of Queensland plus postgraduatemanagement (Swinburne)

• Founder of Bridge8, a foresight, industry development and science communications consultancy with clients including government, corporate and research institutions.

• Six years experience advising NanoVic on marketing and public communications on nanotechnology

Dr. Sarah MorganChief Technical Officer• PhD in analytical/environmental chemistry (Melbourne)• Technical experience at Water Studies Centre, Monash University• Four years experience in NanoVic and NVA,

managing portfolio of water products• Experienced communicator, project manager, well-

known in industry

Alexandra SmartProduct Development & IP• Completing PhD on

stress responses inbarley at ACPFG.

• Grad Cert in Commercialisation and Honours in biotechnology from the University of Adelaide

Professor Sam AdelojuTechnical Advisor• Head of School and Chair in Chemical and Environmental Sciences at Monash University.• International reputation in the areas of biosensing technology, water quality assessment, stormwater

management and electroanalytical chemistry. • Led team that developed the AquaSens technology

Management Team

June 17, 2009

AquaSensTechnology Overview

• Sensor probe with a nanoporous enzyme system for the detection of nitrates and phosphates in water, and sulfites in wine and food products

Competitive advantage

• Rapid and sensitive detection

• Portability

• Low analysis cost

Portable ReaderAquaSens is a disposable sensor designed to fit with a standard portable Ion-Selective Electrode (ISE) unit

Concept sketch

CompetitorsCurrent methods are:

Laboratory based, not portable for in-field detection

Expensive

Require trained operators

Use toxic chemicals

ABB Navigator 600 System Phosphate Analyser

Hach Phosphax SystemPhosphate Analyser

July 8, 2009

July 16, 2009

August 18, 2009

R&D ProgramConduct testing on sufite:

Comparison tests against current mechanisms of sulfite detection

Establish a potential procedure for wineries in using the sensor

Initial testing on industrial prototype for sulfite

August 21, 2009

10:00 am August 24, 2009

December, 2009

AquaSens Prototype

AquaSens PrototypeInsert text re sensor tips

March, 2009

40

Aquasens industry

prototype developed

Trial program executed

August 2009 December 2009

March 2010

Alpha Trials

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Five senses

Theory U

• "Presencing” is a blend of the words "presence" and "sensing

• The ability to sense and bring into the present one's highest future potential.

3 Movements of the U

Downloading

Observe,observe,observe

Retreat and reflect:Allow the inner knowing

to emerge

Act in an instant

Theory U

suspending

redirecting

letting go

Seeingwith fresh eyes

Sensing from the field

Prototyping the new by

linking head, heart, hand

Crystallizing vision and intention

embodying

enacting

letting come

Presencing connecting to Source

Downloadingpast patterns

Who is my Self? What is my Work?

Performing by operating from the whole

VoFOpen Will

VoCOpen Heart

VoJOpen Mind

U Process: 1 Process, 5 Stages

1. Co-initiating: uncover common intent

stop and listen to others and to what life calls you to do

2. Co-sensing: observe, observe, observe

connect with people and places to sense the system from the

whole

5. Co-evolving: embody the new in ecosystems

that facilitate acting from the whole

4. Co-creating:prototype the new

in living examples to explore the future by doing

3. Presencing: connect to the source of inspiration and will

go to the place of silence and allow the inner knowing to emerge

Innovation is…

Sensing Breakthrough:Imagination, Inquiry & InnovationDr Kristin Alford, 9 March 2010www.bridge8.com.au