Students

Leave university with a degree - and a reputation for innovation.

We take your ideas to the world.

If you've got a brilliant idea, invention, innovation or body of research, why wait? Viclink can help you earn money, and status, while you gain your qualification.

Imagine having a product in development, perhaps even running a business built around that product, by the time you graduate. You could emerge from Victoria University an expert in your field, and an entrepreneur. Why take the slow road to success? Viclink can help you fast-track your ambitions.

Case Study

Daniel Crabtree started his first business at age 13, so needed little convincing of the merits of commercialisation.

Mr Crabtree, who is just completing his PhD and is in employment negotiations with both Google and Microsoft, has filed a patent for a web search engine with improved quality.

Viclink sent the 23-year-old to Summer School at the Stanford Institute for Entrepreneurship this year to learn about turning his great invention into a business.

It's not totally foreign ground for Mr Crabtree, who still runs the online games business he started at 13 and several other web-based businesses. Collectively, his websites attract up to 3 million visitors a month. His latest venture, as yet un-named, will require significant investment to trial. But the potential gains are massive. If it works, it will compete with Google.

"It could be extremely rewarding, or just a good learning experience and both, I think, are valuable," Mr Crabtree says.

The incentive for students to commercialise their work should not be fast money, he says, as inventions that go to patent could have anywhere from a five to a 15-year lead-in before any serious money starts to flow.
But there are other benefits, particularly to a young entrepreneur's reputation and career development.

"It's a good thing to be listed as an inventor on a patent."