Your initial R&D concept is compelling and the science backs it up, but how do you convince investors to fund your project without having them fall asleep during your pitch?
Battery technology expert Professor Jose Alarco learned how by trial and error over 12 years building an R&D consultancy before re-joining academia to secure new funding and industry collaborators in pilot-scale research.
Over his career Alarco has helped attract more than $30M in research and commercial investment. He holds around 70 patents in 13 patent families on nanomaterials and their applications and is a former co-founder of ScienceWorks and the Very Small Particle Company Ltd.
He now leads both fundamental and applied research into new battery technologies through the QUT Centre for Materials Science, Clean Energies Centre, Future Battery Industries CRC projects, and the ARENA H2Export program.
What’s in it for them?
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