STEM innovation skills to scale up your career.

We will train you in our industry-validated NewLedge® methodology, which will give you business skills to land profitable and purposeful roles in high-performing STEM companies.
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STEM + Innovation = NewLedge®

NewLedge’s unique Business, Entrepreneurship and STEM Innovation training program equips you with critical business skills to set you up for success across the STEM spectrum, from product, sales & support, testing or quality control to R&D and marketing.

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Engage with Customers

  • Customer-research
  • Idea evaluation
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Manage Product & Processes

  • Design
  • Development
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Take on Market Facing Roles

  • Distribution
  • Marketing
  • Sales & service

Become an Intrapreneur

Learn with NewLedge®, and you will gain unique business, tech and STEM innovation skills that will help you build something that’s completely your own – as an employee or entrepreneur. 

We call this intrapreneurship: a STEM professional with an entrepreneurial mindset who leads and succeeds with innovation within or outside an organisation.  

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Think like an Innovator

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Implement like a Disruptor

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Build and manage like a CEO

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Who is this course for?

This course is for anyone with a background in STEM who is looking to build a profitable, future-proof career that doesn’t leave you stuck doing one thing.

  • STEM execs looking to break into product and innovation management
  • Engineers, scientists and tech-minded people in marketing, computers and analytics who are looking to break into product and innovation management
  • Product Managers, Marketing Managers and Management Consultants who want to break into high-growth STEM companies

The NewLedge® Methodology

For innovation to occur, product development must occur in conjunction with sales/marketing and business planning/strategy activities.

  • Learn to monetise your ideas
  • Make fast and effective decisions
  • Implement effective and profitable change
  • Lead and succeed in STEM companies across high-priority areas

Our course contains recorded videos, live masterclasses and case studies from high-growth companies, along with assessments and project work.

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100 hours of content

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15 x 1-hour long live, mentor-led masterclasses

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Lifetime access to our curriculum which is updated regularly

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What You Will Learn

  • Customer-Market Impactor 1: Customer Segment
  • Customer-Market Impactor 2: Customer Applications
  • Customer-Market Impactor 3: Customer Value & Knowledge
  • Technology-Production Impactor 1: Product Design
  • Technology-Production Impactor 2: Production Process & Organisation
  • Technology-Production Impactor 3: Capital Equipment
  • Technology-Production Impactor 4: Technical Skillsets
  • Technology-Production Impactor 5: Materials & Supplier Relations
  • Technology-Production Impactor 6: External Knowledge Sources & Providers
  • Customer-Market Impactor 4: Distribution Channels
  • Customer-Market Impactor 5: Sales & Service Models
  • Customer-Market Impactor 6: External Knowledge Sources & Providers
  • Purpose
  • Lead Remote Team
  • Learn to Pivot
  • Setting Performance Outcomes
  • Confirm Current Customer Base
  • Assess Learning Capability
  • Customer Segment
  • Customer Applications
  • Customer Value & Knowledge
  • Product Design
  • Production Process & Organisation
  • Capital Equipment
  • Technical Skillsets
  • Materials & Supplier Relations
  • Knowledge & Experience Base
  • Distribution Channels
  • Sales & Service Models
  • External Knowledge Sources & Providers

Meet Lucas

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NewLedge® is spearheaded by Dr. Lucas Merlo, a mentor, researcher, teacher, founder and venture capital advisor who holds an MBA and PhD (from CSIRO and RMIT). The courses within the program are designed and taught by Lucas as a  passionate industry expert and company founder.

  • 20+ years experience in business and academia
  • Faculty at RMIT, University of Canberra, Victoria University and Kyung Hee University
  • Entrepreneur
  • Investor & strategic advisor
  • Management consultant

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Tried, Tested and Validated by Experts

The NewLedge® approach to innovation rests on a methodology framed around 12 Impactors or Innovation Impact Factors: the specific elements that affect STEM innovation. 

It is the FIRST and ONLY research-validated innovation-implementation framework in Australia, validated by the CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) download removebg preview and tested on 15 high-performing STEM companies, who have grown and transformed different aspects of their businesses, from product to market. 

"I look after our global wine business and that includes everything from the portfolio that we need for each of the regions…marketing, how we do our branding…the technology requirements… the product pipeline…our distribution and our global pricing, which markets we are going to go into, which ones we are not going to be a part of.”
Anthony HeinrichGlobal Wine Market Director AB Biotek
"I feel we have a percentage of market-driven innovation and a small amount of technology-driven innovation. I have never seen this presented as clearly as NewLedge is putting it out now."
Javier HerbonManaging Director CBG Systems
"Learning is a big part. We've developed a portal to get inventions and new techniques out of the lab and onto the market."
Paul HowleyManaging Director VAXMED Pty Ltd
"Through the simulation app, Smartstream now has access to train and educate consumers on their medical safety products, which has led to new market access, increased business competitiveness and transformation."
Chamindika KonaraGeneral Manager Qlicksmart Pty Ltd
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