Commercial Services Group

The group manages all the commercial dealings within AgResearch.

It aims to facilitate the growth of revenue streams from commercial clients via the provision of services to third parties or from the transfer of intellectual property to external agencies. Its main driver is to forge key partnerships with industry partners to maximise the synergies that exist between AgResearch as a science provider and companies active in the market place.

This involves working closely with AgResearch science groups to:

• Develop new commercial contract research arrangements with third parties.
   

• Broker the equitable transfer of AgResearch intellectual property to third parties best able to commercialise it for the benefit of New Zealand’s pastoral sector via licensing or sale.
   

• Identify, protect and manage the commercially important intellectual property developed within the three AgResearch science groups.
   

• Manage the development of new technology platforms identified as likely to generate new spin off opportunities for AgResearch.
   

The Commercial Services Group has three dedicated commercial teams, each aligned to a specific science group. Each team provides a mix of business development and intellectual management skills appropriate to the science group it is aligned to.

Commercial Team Leaders