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Industry

Our Approach

Small, medium-sized and large enterprises all have the opportunity to work with a university partner in order to obtain expertise in a specific area relevant to your business and objectives.

Partnerships take many forms:

  • Contract research and development
  • Collaborative commercialisation opportunities

For information on other services such as academic expertise and industry-ready graduates, please refer to the Macquarie University website.


Our Philosophy

Foremost in our minds are flexibility of approach and delivery of results. Where practical we will tailor our offering to add value to your organisation.

More TechVouchers

The TechVouchers program was established by the NSW government late in 2009 to encourage collaboration between small-to-medium enterprises and public sector research organisations such as Macquarie University. Under the program, up to $15,000 seed funding is provided to foster engagement between the parties, both of whom must have a presence in NSW, and get the desired work program underway.

The system is web based, with minimal paperwork for businesses and researchers to complete to access funding.



Areas of Interest

Faculty of Arts

While Macquarie’s Faculty of Arts encompasses traditional Arts disciplines such as English, History, Anthropology and Philosophy, industry will also find commercially relevant expertise in Counter Terrorism, Media and Law.  Those organisations who have already or are considering adopting a triple-bottom line of approach to their businesses will benefit from the expertise within the University’s Social Inclusion initiative which includes support for indigenous culture.

Faculty of Business and Economics

The Faculty of Business and Economics is one of Australia's largest and most respected Business faculties with strengths in a wide variety of areas.

Some of the areas where the Faculty has unique strength and insights include:

  • Risk
  • Finance
  • Business Excellence
  • Asia
  • People and Culture
Faculty of Human Sciences

Research in the Faculty of Human Sciences spans a diversity of disciplines that share a common interest in human development, education, communication and healthy functioning across the lifespan. The Faculty promotes cross-disciplinary research and offers a stimulating research environment for both staff and students.

The Faculty is home to:

  • Department of Education
  • Department of Linguistics (including speech pathology and audiology),
  • Department of Psychology
  • Institute of Early Childhood
  • Institute of Human Cognition and Brain Science
  • The Australian School of Advanced Medicine

The Faculty of Human Sciences has outstanding researchers and research centres in the broad areas of human cognition and brain science, emotional health, neuroscience, mathematics and science education, children and families, special education, language in social life, translation and interpreting, language sciences, and e-learning.

Faculty of Science

The Faculty of Science covers traditional and emerging areas of science within eleven departments and eighteen research centres.

While the departments tend to focus on traditional under and post-graduate areas of education, the centres provide a strong research focus within the faculty, often with cross-disciplinary appointments that encourage strong links between researchers and industry as well as between researchers at other prominent national and international institutes and universities. Some specialized facilities and expertise are available for business and non-research organisations.