STEM innovation skills to scale up your career.
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.
Engage with Customers
- Customer-research
- Idea evaluation
Manage Product & Processes
- Design
- Development
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.
Think like an Innovator
Implement like a Disruptor
Build and manage like a CEO
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.
100 hours of content
15 x 1-hour long live, mentor-led masterclasses
Lifetime access to our curriculum which is updated regularly
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
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
Ready to experience the power of Innovation?
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) 
and tested on 15 high-performing STEM companies, who have grown and transformed different aspects of their businesses, from product to market.