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Australian Innovation Exhibition

What does a Spitfire and Scramjet engine have in common? For one thing, they will share the limelight at Australia's first innovation exhibition, being staged in the Brisbane CBD on July 26 and 27.

The Supermarine Aircraft Spitfire is designed and built in Queensland and is a high performance sports aircraft that is a 90 percent replica of the original Battle of Britain aeroplane. The Scramjet is a development of the University of Queensland’s Centre for Hypersonics and is the prototype for powerplants that could allow future generation airliners to

fly from Australia to the UK in just three hours.

Both are great examples of Australian innovation and invention being showcased at the Australian Innovation Exhibition (AIE 2010) at Reddacliff Place opposite Treasury Casino, from 9am to 4pm on July 26 and 27.

The event will also highlight the very best of Queensland innovation, especially in the area of green technologies and green energy. There is are scores of engineering innovations produced out of Queensland that are changing the world, from new nanotechnology applications to world-beating water purification systems such as Elene and Kerry Gosse’s Australian Innovative Systems Ecoline. Then there is an amazing water-saving pool filter box, Ecoskim developed by Queenslanders Mark Davies and Paul de Groot that is the first major advance in that field globally for 25 years.

Gilmore Engineers’ innovation brand – e3k – will be at AIE 2010 there to showcase their game-changing work with industrial bonding system Joinlox, whose inventor Dean Cameron based his idea on clam shell bonding and went on to win the ABC’s The New Inventors series.

President of e3k, Dr Duncan Gilmore, will present the work his engineers performed on an underwater current turbine power generation system and the work done for Leighton Contractors on its operational carbon mitigation system.

It is the first time, many of these inventions and innovations have been made available for the public and business to see up close and even have the opportunity to meet the inventors themselves.

The modern Spitfire sports aircraft – created and manufactured in Queensland in the spirit of the Battle of Britain.

The UQ-based Centre of Hypersonics ‘scramjet’ engine research, headed up by Prof Allan Paull, will have ‘lift off’ in central Brisbane.

The event is a world first in the way it helps innovators to make contact with potential customers and the investment community. There is also a seminar series being held in Brisbane Square, and business clinics within the exhibition, to assist inventors and innovators in their quest for commercialisation.

Foundation sponsors of the Australian Innovation Exhibition are the Australian Association of Angel Investors (AAAI), the Australian Venture Capital Association Ltd (AVCAL) and the Australian Institute for Commercialisation, which is based at Brisbane Technology Park Eight Mile Plains.

Business Acumen magazine has joined forces with Queensland-based Venture Capital Corporation to develop the Australian Innovation Exhibition as the nation’s prime annual showcase for innovation and commercialisation.

“We are delighted to be working with Business Acumen to bring the Australian Innovation Exhibition to reality and use it as a launch pad for Australia's innovative businesses to the world,” said Venture Capital Corporation and AIE director, Nick Day. “This event and its promotional program is precisely what Australian innovators need to help get them to the next stage and bring the very best innovation to the attention of the public, potential investors and supporters.”

The investment community has embraced the Australian Innovation Exhibition as an event that can help link innovative businesses and the financial and business support systems they need to commercialise successfully.

AIE 2010 is an innovative exhibition in its own right, presenting innovative products and services in an environment that invites potential investors and supporters to network and link with exhibitors.

But it is also more than just the two-day event. The value AIE 2010 offers goes well beyond the exhibition, with a powerful campaign of publicity and dissemination of information about the innovations, services and people that are likely to develop Australia's next round of internationally successful businesses.

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