Paul Klink

A little bit about me

Paul Klink

Paul Klink

A little bit about me

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I live in Melbourne, Australia; am a father, a husband and manage a software firm specialising in real time trading systems. However, if I had the talent, I would have liked to become a musician/song writer.

Some quick points:

Latest Post

Closing the R&D funding circle

Sep 30, 2024

In Australia, we fund universities to undertake research for the purpose of creating new knowledge. We separately subsidise firms to undertake R&D. However the 2 funding mechanisms are not linked to encourage collaboration between these parties. A competitive knowledge market could be used to close this funding gap and:

  1. Give universities an incentive to collaborate with smaller firms undertaking R&D
  2. Provide smaller firms the confidence to participate in this market and gain R&D collaboration skills
  3. Allow Australia to better exploit knowledge created in universities.