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SEMIP
The South East Melbourne Innovation Precinct (SEMIP) is home to Monash University, CSIRO, Southern Health (the largest public healthcare provider in Victoria), the Monash Health Translation Precinct, the Australian Synchrotron and Melbourne’s key pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, including GlaxoSmithKline, Bristol Myers Squibb, Servier and others.
The Precinct contains 40% of Victoria’s manufacturing activities and over 56,000 registered businesses. Industry sectors encompass manufacturing, retail, property and business services (including scientific and engineering services). The region is focussed on the high end and growth sectors, such as chemicals, polymers, machinery and equipment, applications in transport, health, construction and the environment.
Monash University has one of Victoria’s three medical schools, and is the site of significant preclinical, clinical and translational research activity. Monash’s Science Technology Research and Innovation Precinct (STRIP) is the cornerstone of SEMIP’s preclinical research, while the Monash Health Translation Precinct adjacent the Monash Medical Centre is the site of considerable clinical and translational research.
Located 25 kilometres from Melbourne’s central business district (approximately 25 minutes drive), the precinct boundaries comprise the local government areas of Greater Dandenong, Kingston, Knox and Monash City.
A SEMIP Strategic Plan aims to expand the innovation capabilities of the region by the implementation of a range of initiatives that improve connections and interactions between businesses and between businesses and researchers; provide more streamlined access to business innovation services; and build a sense of place attracting people to invest, work and live in the South East region.
For more information visit www.semip.org.au
Organisations based in the SEMIP include:
Universities
• Monash University
Medical Research Institutes
• Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute, including the home of EMBL Australia
• Australian Stem Cell Centre
• Monash Institute for Medical Research
• Prince Henry’s Institute
Hospitals
• Southern Health
Centres of Excellence
• ARC Centre of Excellence in Biotechnology and Development
• ARC Centre of Excellence in Coherent X-ray Science
• ARC Centre for Complex Systems
• ARC Centre of Excellence in Design in Light Metals
• ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science
• ARC Centre for Environmental Stress and Adaptation Research
• ARC Centre of Excellence for Free Radical Chemistry and Biotechnology
• ARC Centre for Green Chemistry
• NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Patient Safety
• ARC Centre for Perceptive and Intelligent Machines in Complex Environments
• ARC Centre of Excellence in Structural and Functional Microbial Genomics
• NHMRC Centre of Clinical Research Excellence for the Study of Women's Health
Cooperative Research Centres (CRCs)
• CRC for Polymers
Other organisations
• The Australian Synchrotron
• Bristol Myers Squibb
• CSIRO
• GlaxoSmithKline
• The Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication
• Servier
• Small Technologies Cluster
