Commercialisation support for research organisations
We help universities and research organisations turn great ideas into real-world impact. Whether it’s building stronger industry partnerships, securing more funding, or navigating the complexities of commercialisation, we provide expert support to help you succeed.
Our team brings decades of experience in strategy, funding, and tech transfer—so you can focus on what you do best: advancing research that makes a difference.
We provide expert advice and hands-on services including:
Our senior team members average 22+ years of experience developing strategies to boost innovation, research, tech transfer and R&D impact.
Our team has decades of expertise in major bid/tender strategies, from bid development through to project establishment, evolution and exit.
We’ll leverage our extensive networks across research, industry and government, and develop and implement strategic partnership plans.
We have produced custom, high-impact commercialisation strategies for a wide range of research organisations and businesses.
We develop research-industry partnership strategies and train researchers to increase their confidence and skills in industry engagement.
Since 2011, our staged funding strategies have helped research organisations and innovative businesses secure more than $250M in grants and investment.
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What our clients say
Engaging with gemaker from concept to delivery of the Astralis website was seamless, with their professional team providing expert advice and recommendations. We are proud of our new-look website, which more than met our expectations.
I recommend gemaker as a cooperative, collaborative and enthusiastic team who are leaders in their space.
Collaborating with gemaker was a true partnership: their team felt like an extension of ours, enabling high performance under pressure. They developed our grant application with exceptional skill, commitment and care – as if it were their own funding bid.
We have to be agile, so gemaker’s swift support as a one-stop-shop for strategic advice, business planning, graphic design, writing, etc, has been key to our success. They’ve saved us heartache by providing sound advice based on extensive experience. The responsive gemaker team speaks our language and their can-do culture is a great fit for InSpace.
gemaker are truly client focussed. They are keen to provide us with what we need rather than force us to accept what they’ve done before.
The gemaker team rose to the challenge of analysing the complex market for our products. I appreciated their hands-on, proactive and adaptive approach. They are skilled interviewers and delivered an insightful report with a clear path for the next steps in our commercialisation.
gemaker were generous in sharing their wealth of commercialisation knowledge in the context of the university environment as well as from the perspective of industry. Their depth of experience meant that they could provide flexible and practical solutions with real-world examples.
I engaged gemaker as an external service provider to develop a Research Engagement Plan. gemaker were thorough, flexible and responsive and able to adapt to deliver the outcome that was right for us as the client. I was impressed by the approach and style of the team and wouldn’t hesitate to recommend them.
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From funding databases and accelerators to jobs, events and free commercialisation training, we’ve gathered essential tools to help you navigate the path from research to impact.
Research organisations & CRCs we've helped
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