Commercialisation Engagement Guidelines
MBIE’s Commericalisation Engagement Guidelines support researchers, institutions, and technology transfer offices to navigate commercialisation. They provide helpful, easy-to-use advice tailored for New Zealand’s distinct research and commercialisation environment.
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The Guidelines bring together sector experience and shared insight on how to approach intellectual property, partnerships, and pathways to impact. They focus on enabling informed decisions, strengthening relationships, and protecting long term value for New Zealand.
Rather than prescribing a single approach, the Guidelines offer principles and examples that can be adapted to different contexts. They are intended to support confident, consistent practice across our research system, while allowing room for judgement and innovation.
Use them to prepare early conversations, sense‑check options, and navigate moments where roles, expectations, or pathways begin to take shape. They support informed choice and help explain why certain discussions arise, rather than directing decisions or outcomes.
Commercialisation Engagement Guidelines [PDF 636KB]
Intended to be a living document, these Guidelines will be reviewed and updated over time as practice evolves, and feedback is received.
These Guidelines sit alongside New Zealand’s Intellectual (IP) Management Policy which sets expectations around how Public Research Organisations, universities, and other organisations should manage IP that is generated as a result of government funding received through the science, innovation and technology portfolio.