Create: From Idea to Market

Do you want to take your great idea to the market?

We all have great ideas however many of us need expertise and mentorship to take a great idea all the way to a product.

This is where we can help you.

Whether you are a JCU student, scientist, researcher, inventor or entrepreneur, the JCU Innovation team can help you design and advance your research, prototype, technology or minimal viable product (MVP) into a business venture no matter what stage of the innovation process you are in.

Our facilities

The JCU Ideas Lab, a world–class innovation hub that supports technology-enabled inventors and innovators throughout ideation, tinkering, making, prototyping, development and deploying of concepts into the market has state-of-the-art maker spaces and supports prototype development, validity testing, coaching and mentoring.

• Design thinking and workshop ideation spaces
• Communal co-working spaces in the atrium and along first and second floor verandahs
• Designated co-working spaces for selected entrepreneurs and startups
• Private meeting rooms
• Electrical Engineering and IoT Engineering maker spaces, equipped with:
  • various 3D printers
  • 2D laser cutter
  • LPKF printed circuit board milling machine
  • Festo process control simulation equipment
  • Reflow soldering oven and soldering equipment
  • “Dirty maker space” workshop containing meal lathe, milling machine and a tungsten inert gas (TIG) welding machine