Technology Transfer

At MITRE our innovations are as broad as our research portfolio. Working with our government sponsors and our partners, MITRE Australia conducts research and shares the resulting future capabilities with industry for the public good.

The MITRE Australia partnerships team is focussed on getting additional impact from our intellectual property. We do this by transferring IP to industry so that we can foster small businesses and get our technology out into the ecosystem for our government sponsors but also for the nation and the world.

By transferring solutions inspired by our government sponsors’ most pressing future needs, we provide technical capabilities that can be leveraged by industry to start a new company, enhance an existing product line, or increase economic benefit to the nation.

MITRE’s R&D efforts and IP include innovative breakthroughs and more than 260 patents since 1958. Over the last 15 years alone, we have received 188 patents and granted nearly 1,800 licenses.

Some examples? A framework to quickly decipher cyber-attacker patterns, aircraft collision-avoidance algorithms, a way to turn mobile phones and tablets into routers when existing networks are unavailable during emergencies.

Simply put, MITRE Australia wants to both partner and license our technical solutions—whether through partnership agreements, direct licenses, or through industry adoption of our many open-source innovations.