How we work
Choose from CSIRO Food and Nutritional Sciences' menu of business relationships:
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Training, staff exchanges and secondments
We support exchanges and secondments of personnel between industry and CSIRO Food and Nutritional Sciences. These assignments are typically for less than one year. Intellectual property rights are negotiable on a case-by-case basis.
We can provide information on training for food professionals.
Guaranteed protection of your company's sensitive information
We offer Confidentiality Agreements to protect the secrecy of both CSIRO's and your company's activities when a partnership is being considered or while the partnership terms are being negotiated. Intellectual property is guarded and no information may be commercialised or released for an agreed period.
Use our specialised equipment or facilities
Our Pilot Plant Agreements allow industry partners to conduct research using CSIRO's experimental or pilot processing facilities. CSIRO's staff will assist or, more commonly, conduct tests or research on your behalf. In this Agreement, the user owns the intellectual property and typically applies the results of trials to their own operations.
Our experts solve your technical problems
Short-duration Consultancy Agreements are available to clients who have specific technical problems. These Agreements usually take the form of a simple contract and cover most of CSIRO Food and Nutritional Sciences' testing and technical services. In this Agreement, the user owns the intellectual property and typically applies the results to solve a local problem.
We conduct research for you
Contract Research Agreements allow your company to gain a commercial edge through the research conducted by CSIRO's experts. Companies pay the full cost of the research and generally own the intellectual property. These Agreements are useful when the research and development project is of a long duration.
Collaborate with us
Companies who wish to develop a technology in collaboration with CSIRO should consider a Collaborative Research and Development Agreement. This Agreement allows companies to share costs with CSIRO in an area of mutual interests. In these cases intellectual property is negotiable depending on the resource contributions of each party.
Develop or commercialise our technologies
Some of CSIRO's unique inventions and technologies are available to companies for development and commercialisation. Licensing Agreements give companies exclusive or non-exclusive rights to use technologies. Intellectual property is negotiable on a case-by-case basis depending on rights under patents and copyrights to use CSIRO inventions.