Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and a Road Less Traveled

[...]a people centric approach is fundamental to realizing a successful future. The selection process for ECPs was based on the answers to a series of questions: * Did RMIT have critical mass on a national and international scale to create impact? * If there was critical mass was the capability competitive and the research high quality? * Were the capabilities in areas differentiated enough to deliver value that other institutions could not? * Were the capabilities deployable and would a Platform actually deliver the benefit RMIT wanted for others? The RMIT research community provided more than 100 proposals for ECPs which was eventually down-selected to eight - Advanced Manufacturing and Fabrication, Advanced Materials, Biomedical and Health Innovation, Design and Creative Practice, Global Business Innovation, Information and Systems (Engineering), Social Change, and Urban Futures. The ECPs were established to evolve the RMIT research capability so that it is increasingly relevant to the needs of the broader community and to have a greater focus on impact with the expressed purpose of deploying RMIT capability to deliver economic, societal and environmental benefit.