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Eligibility rules


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  1. Applicants must be either UWA academic or UWA general staff, in permanent positions or on contracts that have at least 12 months remaining.
  2. Postgraduate students must be willing to assign their IP to UWA and sign a declaration to this effect on the application form.
  3. The IP must be “owned” by UWA through the inventorship of UWA staff (or UWA postgraduate students willing to assign their IP) submitting the application. All inventors must be clearly identified on the application form.

  4. UWA staff working in institutions associated with UWA (such as Royal Perth Hospital) are eligible to apply, provided the following rules both apply:

    • at least 50 per cent of the IP is clearly owned by UWA; and
    • the Office of Industry and Innovation has a significant input into the development and implementation of the commercialisation strategy.
  5. Applicants must guarantee that there are sufficient resources available to ensure the project can be completed on time, without adversely affecting the operation of the school.
  6. The IP must be able to be protected in some way. Though a patent is not essential, IP protection in the form of ‘trade secrets’, ‘know-how’, ‘embedded software’, ‘custom chips’ and so on, would be considered acceptable.
  7. The applicant/s must agree not to disclose any information during the project that could jeopardise any future patent application.
  8. UWA spin-off companies, where UWA is not a foundation shareholder, are not eligible to apply for Pathfinder funds.
  9. Only one application (consisting of both Stage 1 and 2) per individual project will be approved in any one calendar year.
  10. Applicants will not qualify for more than one Pathfinder award at any one time. Multiple Pathfinder awards may be obtained at different times for different projects in any one year, as long as they do not run concurrently.

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