Rob Burnside

Director | IP Advisory & Valuations

Rob leads IIP’s IP Valuation & Risk Advisory practice helping organisations understand and manage the value and risk of their IP assets.

About Rob

With experience spanning IP valuation, venture capital, and technology transfer, Rob brings a multidisciplinary lens to evaluating how IP creates economic value. He has over 15 years’ experience advising on IP value in M&A, tax, capital raising, financial reporting and licensing contexts – including the determination of royalty rates and commercial structures for technology transfer, and JV agreements. His work spans deep-tech, life sciences, advanced manufacturing and miningtech, with clients including leading universities, national research agencies, venture capital and private equity funds, and ASX-listed and multinational companies.

Before joining IIP, Rob was a Director at a global professional services firm, where he led commercial IP valuation and strategy projects and co-developed a proprietary IP assessment tool. He is recognised for integrating technical, legal, financial and market analysis to build sound IP value narratives – particularly where emerging or complex IP is involved.

Rob is accustomed to working alongside R&D, technical, finance and executive teams.

Education & Qualifications

Queensland University of Technology 

Bachelor of Biotechnology Innovation (Hons) – First Class

Queensland University of Technology

Applied & Analytical Finance

Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)

Certificate in Business Valuation Techniques

IBM

Certificate in Data Science

Publications

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