Michelle Jasper (left) and Professor Peter Yu. Photo: Tracey Nearmy/ANU
Michelle Jasper ( left ) and Professor Peter Yu. Photo: Tracey Nearmy/ANU - The Australian National University (ANU) has launched a new Indigenous-led innovation hub to develop long-term partnerships and collaborations with First Nations businesses and communities, which already contribute billions of dollars to the Australian economy. Gandaywarra: First Nations Innovation Hub will provide access to resources and mentorship for Indigenous and non-Indigenous innovators, with the values of country, culture, community and prosperity embedded into everything it does. Michelle Jasper, a Te Aitanga a Hauiti, Ngati Porou, Te Arawa woman from Aotearoa, is the Founder and Head of Gandaywarra. She said the focus of the Hub is to build and activate a pipeline of strong, long-term partnerships and capabilities, which will enable First Nations communities, academia, industry, government and end-users to collaborate and innovate. "Gandaywarra is truly innovative in its aspiration to do things differently within ANU but also the broader economic ecosystem, by embedding traditional knowledge and practice into research translation, application and commercialisation," she said. Vice-President (First Nations) Professor Peter Yu, a Yawuru man from Broome, said ANU is proud to launch Gandaywarra to enable innovators and entrepreneurs to develop, test, and scale up their ideas, products and endeavours.
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