Launched in 2024, ARDC Research Link Australia (RLA) aims to bridge the information gap between research, industry, business, and government for impactful innovation. The release of RLA marked the beginning of an iterative process aimed at refining and expanding the capabilities of the RLA platform.
Reducing the information gap between the health research sector and industry has the potential to pave the way for collaborations that could lead to meaningful and lasting impacts on health and wellbeing of Australians.
The RLA Data Community of Practice Health and Wellbeing (Data CoP) project sought to develop a data-driven approach, enhancing understanding of research-industry collaborations in wellbeing.
Our objective was to convert fragmented research data into an integrated network, yielding insights into health collaborations. Additionally, we augmented this process with expert insights, synthesising key knowledge on Australia’s health and wellbeing collaborative landscape.
Our work encompassed research institutions, healthcare practitioners, nonprofits, governmental bodies, and private sectors.
The project consisted of 3 main components:
This invovled:
This invovled working with subject matter experts on data wrangling and generating data insights.
This invovled:
All data partners contributed to RLA public data. We envisaged the following data contributions to RLA:
The project has achieved the following objectives:
As a result, the RLA Data CoP project has enabled health and wellbeing organisations to visualise their research collaboration networks. It has provided critical insights into the nature and characteristics of collaborations in the health sector, identifying dynamics that contribute to successful partnerships. This project has highlighted effective strategies for fostering impactful research-industry collaborations, emphasising the qualities of strong partnerships and successful researchers. The insights gained have equipped participants with practical examples of how to use collaboration data to achieve better outcomes.
To learn more about the project and its outcomes, read the project report.
This was a collaborative project, enabled by the contributions of the ARDC and:
