Sensing Breakthrough: Imagination, Inquiry & Innovation Dr Kristin Alford, 9 March 2010
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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
Image: digital_a, sxc.hu
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
Inventor
Inspirer
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
Inventor
Inspirer
Need
IdeaObstacles
Potential
Acceleration or Implementation
Image: digital_a, sxc.hu
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
Inventor
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Need
Idea
Obstacles
Potential
InventorInventor
Inventor
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…
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