Flinders University and Cisco Fuel Innovation

Turning one of Australia's oldest car factories into a thriving co-innovation district

Flinders University at Tonsley

Flinders' Tonsley campus is an AU$120 million (US$80 million) hub of innovation. This central location for the university's teaching and research in key industries is an incubator for entrepreneurs and future employers.

Industry: Education
Location: Adelaide, South Australia
Size: 4000 students
Website: flinders.edu.au/campus/tonsley

Summary

Challenges

  • Utilize the distinct opportunity to transform potential losses into significant gains

Results

  • Transformation success through Cisco's dedicated investment in key initiatives
  • Continued partnership with the Factory of the Future project at Tonsley

Tonsley's a really special place. It's a place that we have helped to bring forward from having been a former car manufacturing plant to now one of Australia's leading innovation districts. You need partners. You need partnerships. You need partners who get it. And Cisco definitely get it.

Professor Colin Stirling, Vice Chancellor