Forward

The Rozetta Institute is a philanthropic innovation accelerator with a mission to identify and translate breakthrough ideas that will transform Australia.

We are Australia’s only independent, philanthropic accelerator. Our independence enables us to take a strategic approach to identifying, developing and supporting innovation with the potential to ignite Australia’s economic, social and environmental prosperity. We support Australian industry sectors to develop and attract funding for their innovation agenda, building on Rozetta’s history of success in supporting Australia’s finance sector.

Improvements in human well-being are dependent on our ability to deploy new solutions to our collective problems. Australia’s ability to innovate is the key to a sustainable and prosperous future. As a country we face many challenges, including how to transition to a low carbon future, take advantage of the artificial intelligence revolution, build a more productive and vibrant economy, ensure sufficient housing for our population and protect our natural resource base, just to name a few. These grand challenges require effective collaboration between academia, government and industry to develop, test and implement smart new solutions. Rozetta plays a role in identifying and supporting those areas of innovation that will create the biggest impact for Australia.

Rozetta Institute is a big supporter of the Australian Government’s Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) Program. Unique in the world, the CRC Program supports medium- to long-term, industry-led collaborative research, to transform an industry sector. Rozetta Institute emerged from the Capital Markets CRC which was funded three times from 2001, and more recently the Digital Finance CRC. Our approach to collaborative research in our CRCs is to stay strongly focused on developing commercial solutions to industry identified challenges.

One of our roles is to magnify Australia’s innovation capabilities through the development of a range of tools and programs that inform and underpin the success of Australia. We have initiated the development of this Playbook to support any CRC (or similar large research initiative) that is looking for a proven plan and set of templates to fast-track the start up of their venture. We invite anyone who wants to add to the Playbook to contact us. We would like this to be a resource that continues to grow for the benefit of all of Australia.

Dr Paul Dalby
General Manager
Rozetta Institute