Commercialisation Pathways Advisory Group (CPAG)

The Commercialisation Pathways Advisory Group (CPAG):

provides advice to the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Innovation) on the interpretation, application and review of University policies and procedures as they relate to commercialisation, and conflicts of interest relating to intellectual property,
conducts commercialisation pathway reviews and provides advice to Level 3 Authorised Officers, including consideration of requests for the assignment of UQ IP to the originator,
provides advice on the management options for interests of individual staff involved in commercialisation, including in relation to secondary employment, and
generates templates and other tools for use in functions involving commercialisation.

Category	Role	Name	Unit/Affiliation
Ex officio	Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research) - Chair	Professor Rachel Parker	Office of Pro-Vice-Chancellor
Ex officio	Executive Director, Research Partnerships	Mr Paul Nicholls	Research Partnerships
Ex officio	Chief Executive Officer, UniQuest	Dr Dean Moss	UniQuest
Ex officio	Faculty Executive Dean	Professor Andrew Griffiths	Faculty of Business, Economics and Law
Ex officio	Faculty Executive Dean	Vacant
Ex officio	Institute Director	Professor Alan Rowan	Australian Institute for Bioengineering & Nanotechnology
Ex officio	Institute Director	Professor Rick Valenta	Sustainable Minerals Institute
Ex officio	Senior Director, UniQuest	Dr Craig Belcher	UniQuest
Ex officio	Executive Director, Research Office	Dr Jodi Clyde-Smith	Research Office
Ex officio	Senior Workplace Relations Consultant	Mr Doug Nairn	Reward & Workplace Relations
Observer	Legal Services (Research and Intellectual Property)	Ms Elise Neilson	Legal Services
Observer	General Counsel, UniQuest	Ms Jane Malloch	UniQuest
Secretariat	Secretariat	Ms Tayo Adeniyi Ms Reshika Chand	Research Strategy, Planning and Performance

The 2024 meeting dates for the Commercialisation Pathways Advisory Group are:

To contact the Commericalisation Pathways Advisory Group, please email: cpag@uq.edu.au

For confidential matters, please email: pvcr@research.uq.edu.au