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Hi, I'm Dougal Edwards, founder of Bright Arena.

We are Pioneers of Entrepreneurial Commercialisation

Bright Arena was founded in 2013 on a heritage of entrepreneurship and innovation.

Our mission is to create a step-change in the commercial and societal impact of Australia’s R&D through entrepreneurial endeavour.

We do this by working closely with visionary leaders, researchers and innovators to create the next generation of deep tech ventures and industries in Australia.

We tailor and embed sustainable entrepreneurial practices into your organisation, exponentially improving your commercial success and culture.

We believe you’ll find working with us refreshing and rewarding. We’ll help you embrace the emerging future and we’ll be with you every step of the way.

Who we work with

Researchers & Innovators

Early stage: We run proven high impact programs that empower and enable researchers and innovators to adopt new mindsets and mechanics to make meaningful commercial progress.

Later stages: We coach deep tech startup founders and teams as they spinout, raise investment and need to sustainably scale their venture. Supporting the shift from Founder to CEO are also core to this work.

Research institutes

Commercial Teams: We specialise in scaling commercialisation efforts to support startup and spinout activity that is repeatable, scalable, and aligned with the organisation’s strategy.

Leadership Teams: We help develop the capacity to become agile, opportunistic and embrace new ways of working. This work enables institutes to cultivate an entrepreneurial culture and a renewed sense of purpose.

Large Organisations

We assist organisations to become more agile and embrace new ways of working that raise productivity and improve culture.

We enable businesses to go beyond traditional commercial models by installing an end-to-end entrepreneurial innovation and commercialisation Operating System that delivers exponentially greater returns on your investment in growth.

This helps organisations become more agile and embrace new ways of working that raise productivity, improve culture and enhance the bottom line.

Small & Medium Businesses

We coach small and medium businesses to identify and exploit new growth opportunities and to launch new products, services or platforms to validated market growth.

Using our Venture OS™, an end-to-end innovation operating system, we save businesses significant time, money and resources and deliver exponentially greater returns on your innovation investment.

What we do

Venture Development

We partner with talent working on transformative tech, from early concepts through to startups struggling to scale

Innovation Portfolios

We work with commercial and product teams to build pipelines of innovative products, services and ventures

Innovation Enablement

We support charities and foundations to develop new ways to attract and engage ecosystem talent

OUR IMPACT

WE ARE Pioneers of Entrepreneurial Commercialisation

+$ 100 Million

for Entrepreneurial Researchers

Researchers we've worked with raised over $200m of funding from outside the traditional grants system.

+ 1 New Ventures

for Commercial R&D Teams

Organisations we've worked with launched over 100 new products & ventures into new and existing markets.

+ 1 New Startups

for Entrepreneurs

Teams we've worked with launched over 400 new startups nationally and internationally.

Recent testimonials

"This program has radically changed how I value my expertise and my work. I am no longer simply grateful for the opportunity to collaborate with external partners, I have written proposals and pitched my ideas, securing and leveraging funds to increase the scale and scope of the project."

"The Program has absolutely super-charged our project! In a 6 month period we have gone from no commercialisation plan at all to a strategy that is guided by many conversations with big pharma and VC. This has given us opportunities to have an impact far beyond anything we had envisaged."

"The program helped me develop my project idea and develop entrepreneurial mindset, and also helped me improve skills for my current role. Dougal and the team are very engaging, supportive, responsive and enthusiastic and that keeps me motivated and more eager to have my project succeed."

"This program was fantastic, it carefully walked us through how an idea can be transformed into start-up over only a few months. The content was engaging, helpful and practical. I felt like Bright Arena was a space where I could be ambitious, road test my strategies with like-minded scientists."

The program challenged the way I thought about the potential value and impact of my research. It provided a framework to transform what was in essence a 'pie-in-the-sky' idea into a feasible project with tangible objectives. It has transformed my approach to translating my research."

Turn your R&D into a commercial success

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Hi, I'm Dougal Edwards, founder of Bright Arena.