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.
We aim to create a globally-renowned community of practice empowered with entrepreneurial thinking that drives transformative innovation and real-world solutions.
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.
The following themes reflect areas of focus for the network. Members may engage in multiple themes, contributing to the entrepreneurial ecosystem of the University.
Focuses on developing critical entrepreneurial competencies, and essential skills for innovation, and strategic thinking among academics.
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.
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.
Covers the integration of entrepreneurial curriculum and pedagogy into teaching and learning, enhancing both academic practice and student entrepreneurial outcomes.
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.
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.
Supports academics to balance entrepreneurial pursuits with academic career demands, ensuring long-term professional growth and wellbeing.
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:
REAN is supported by the following Enabling Impact Platforms:
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| Global Business Innovation | 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. |
| Biomedical and Health Innovation | Managing health challenges across the globe. |
| Design and Creative Practice | Applying an inventive, exploratory approach to real-world problems through interdisciplinary research, within and beyond design and creative practice. |
| Information in Society | Helping society to understand, shape, and adapt to the disruptions caused by new data sources and information technologies. |
| Social Change | 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. |
| Urban Futures | Researching how cities can be more resilient, sustainable and regenerative. |
EIPs enable economic, environmental, societal, health and cultural impact with government, business and the community through research and innovation.
Acknowledgement of Country
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.
Acknowledgement of Country
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business.
