FUSION OF ACADEMIA AND
ENTREPRENEURIAL MINDS
FUSION OF ACADEMIA AND
ENTREPRENEURIAL MINDS
The Entrepreneurial Academics Network at RMIT is an academic and industry-led network connecting academics across disciplines, integrating entrepreneurial thinking and practices to solve real-world problems.
Whether you're a PhD candidate in the early stages of your academic career or a seasoned academic, the network provides a collaborative space to encourage an entrepreneurial mindset and entrepreneurial approaches to teaching, research and industry engagement.
The network also provides the space for professionals and industry partners interested in collaborating with entrepreneurial academics for cutting-edge innovation and impact.
The Entrepreneurial Academics Network at RMIT is an academic and industry-led network connecting academics across disciplines, integrating entrepreneurial thinking and practices to solve real-world problems.
Whether you're a PhD candidate in the early stages of your academic career or a seasoned academic, the network provides a collaborative space to encourage an entrepreneurial mindset and entrepreneurial approaches to teaching, research and industry engagement.
The network also provides the space for professionals and industry partners interested in collaborating with entrepreneurial academics for cutting-edge innovation and impact.
Core Purpose
Core Purpose
We aim to create a globally-renowned community of practice empowered with entrepreneurial thinking that drives transformative innovation and real-world solutions.
We aim to create a globally-renowned community of practice empowered with entrepreneurial thinking that drives transformative innovation and real-world solutions.
What we do
What we do
Our work focuses on fostering connections among academics, professional staff, and industry partners, with a shared commitment to entrepreneurial practice and outcomes that impact society for the better.
Through regular networking events, workshops, and collaborative projects, the network facilitates knowledge exchange and enables academics to develop entrepreneurial mindsets and skills to innovate and solve real-world problems through research commercialisation, industry partnerships, or new ventures.
Our work focuses on fostering connections among academics, professional staff, and industry partners, with a shared commitment to entrepreneurial practice and outcomes that impact society for the better.
Through regular networking events, workshops, and collaborative projects, the network facilitates knowledge exchange and enables academics to develop entrepreneurial mindsets and skills to innovate and solve real-world problems through research commercialisation, industry partnerships, or new ventures.
Network Leaders
Network Leaders
CORE THEMES
CORE THEMES
The following themes reflect areas of focus for the network. Members may engage in multiple themes, contributing to the entrepreneurial ecosystem of the University.
The following themes reflect areas of focus for the network. Members may engage in multiple themes, contributing to the entrepreneurial ecosystem of the University.
Entreprenuerial skills and mindset
Entreprenuerial skills and mindset
Focuses on developing critical entrepreneurial competencies, and essential skills for innovation, and strategic thinking among academics.
Focuses on developing critical entrepreneurial competencies, and essential skills for innovation, and strategic thinking among academics.
Research translation and commercialisation
Research translation and commercialisation
Covers strategies and success stories for transforming academic research into market-ready solutions by bridging the gap between discovery and enterprise, ensuring real-world impact, value creation, and market engagement.
Covers strategies and success stories for transforming academic research into market-ready solutions by bridging the gap between discovery and enterprise, ensuring real-world impact, value creation, and market engagement.
Connected entrepreneurial campuses of RMIT
Connected entrepreneurial campuses of RMIT
Focuses on creating synergies between RMIT’s Melbourne, Vietnam, and Barcelona campuses to promote cross-campus entrepreneurial initiatives, collaborations, and shared resources for a dynamic ecosystem.
Focuses on creating synergies between RMIT’s Melbourne, Vietnam, and Barcelona campuses to promote cross-campus entrepreneurial initiatives, collaborations, and shared resources for a dynamic ecosystem.
Entrepreneurial teaching and learning
Entrepreneurial teaching and learning
Covers the integration of entrepreneurial curriculum and pedagogy into teaching and learning, enhancing both academic practice and student entrepreneurial outcomes.
‘Spotlight’ your
impact series
‘Spotlight’ your
impact series
Showcases the achievements of our network members, including innovative projects, research breakthroughs, and entrepreneurial successes. This aims to inspire the community and attract key stakeholders to ongoing members’ entrepreneurial efforts.
Showcases the achievements of our network members, including innovative projects, research breakthroughs, and entrepreneurial successes. This aims to inspire the community and attract key stakeholders to ongoing members’ entrepreneurial efforts.
Mentorship
Mentorship
Focuses on unlocking your career potential through dynamic connections with seasoned academics, successful entrepreneurs, and top industry professionals. This aims to foster the sharing of entrepreneurial knowledge and paves the way for your professional growth.
Career development and balance
Career development and balance
Supports academics to balance entrepreneurial pursuits with academic career demands, ensuring long-term professional growth and wellbeing.
SHOWCASE & EVENTS
SHOWCASE & EVENTS
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PARTNERSHIPS
PARTNERSHIPS
REAN is supported by the following Enabling Impact Platforms:
REAN is supported by the following Enabling Impact Platforms:
Working with researchers around the world to unlock the value and impact of innovation.
Advanced Materials, Manufacturing, and Fabrication
Transforming specialised materials into high-performing products.
Applying an inventive, exploratory approach to real-world problems through interdisciplinary research, within and beyond design and creative practice.
Helping society to understand, shape, and adapt to the disruptions caused by new data sources and information technologies.
Focuses on transformative research in the areas of digital society, quality of life, global mobility and research practice for social change.
Sustainable Technologies and Systems
Leveraging sustainable technologies and systems to solve national and global environmental, social and economic challenges in the areas of energy, water, food and circular economy.
Contact Us
Contact Us
Membership and Contacting REAN.
Membership and Contacting REAN.
We invite all academics, professional staff, and industry partners who are eager to engage with a community focused on fostering entrepreneurial thinking and practices. Joining REAN means becoming part of a network that values connecting innovative minds and enabling collaborative efforts to shape the future of academia.
Academics who are interested in joining the network can contact network leaders via email:
Ashenafi Biru: ashenafi.biru@rmit.edu.au
Afreen Huq: afreen.huq@rmit.edu.au
Sign Up and Become an REAN Member Today!
Sign Up and Become an REAN Member Today!
Sign Up and Become an REAN Member Today!
Acknowledgement of country
Acknowledgement of country
We acknowledge the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin nations on whose unceded lands our student community nurtures their individual creative expression and collaborative design practices.
We acknowledge the Ancestors and Elders, past and present, of the lands, waterways and seas of Naarm, where we learn and practice design.
We acknowledge that we convene on the lands of the Traditional Custodians of Country and that sovereignty was never ceded here. We honour First Nations people, the rightful caretakers of Country, whose knowledge of, and love for lands, waterways, seas, culture, and community is immeasurable.
As we get set to showcase the diverse voices of our generation, we honour the language groups of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People who have cared for Country through shared knowledge, love and respect. We try to listen deeply as we share this platform across disciplines, celebrating our creativity and dedication in this very old place.
We acknowledge and admire 65,000 years of art and design existing across the eastern Kulin nations, in which we contextualise, experience and interpret our studies at RMIT.
We acknowledge the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin nations on whose unceded lands our student community nurtures their individual creative expression and collaborative design practices.
We acknowledge the Ancestors and Elders, past and present, of the lands, waterways and seas of Naarm, where we learn and practice design.
We acknowledge that we convene on the lands of the Traditional Custodians of Country and that sovereignty was never ceded here. We honour First Nations people, the rightful caretakers of Country, whose knowledge of, and love for lands, waterways, seas, culture, and community is immeasurable.
As we get set to showcase the diverse voices of our generation, we honour the language groups of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People who have cared for Country through shared knowledge, love and respect. We try to listen deeply as we share this platform across disciplines, celebrating our creativity and dedication in this very old place.
We acknowledge and admire 65,000 years of art and design existing across the eastern Kulin nations, in which we contextualise, experience and interpret our studies at RMIT.
The Entrepreneurial Academics Network at RMIT is an academic and industry-led network connecting academics across disciplines, integrating entrepreneurial thinking and practices to solve real-world problems.