Accelerating Commercialisation provides small and medium businesses, entrepreneurs and researchers with access to expert advice and funding to help get a novel product, process or service to market.

AMESRF is to support small-scale and pilot research projects in advanced manufacturing, and benefit smaller firms and early stage research. The fund will provide grants to SMEs for rapid initial feasibility testing, allowing the projects to then move quickly to larger-scale research or commercialisation.

The NT Government in partnership with AMGC has launched the $7.5 million Advanced Manufacturing Ecosystem Fund. The Fund will provide co-investment grants of between $25,000 and $500,000 (or more, based on scale and impact) to industry led advanced manufacturing projects located in the Northern Territory encompassing the Territory’s priority sectors where those projects:
– Commercialise new products and processes, including transitioning a new product or process from prototype stage to full commercial operations
– Support early stage, fast fail, grants to support small scale and pilot research projects in advanced manufacturing

The Advancing Renewables Program provides businesses with funding or finance to develop renewable energy technologies. The renewable energy technologies may include hybrid technologies and technologies that are related to renewable energy technologies.

After Hours Innovation Grant is to fund initiatives designed to improve access to after hours primary health care and reduce the number of people presenting at emergency departments after-hours for low priority or preventable health issues.

The Amazon Launchpad Innovation Grants, an initiative to recognise innovation by Australian startups, entrepreneurs and SMBs. Grants include: $20,000 cash grant, exclusive Amazon SMB experience and more.

The Australian Government is offering $44 million in grants to establish 4 Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Capability Centres. Your project must nominate focus areas in applications of AI that align with the government’s National Manufacturing Priorities or Digital Growth Priorities. Applications close May 12.

The Initiative is a collaborative project between the Office of National Intelligence and the Defence Science and Technology Group (DSTG), to develop Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) expertise and capability in areas of significant importance to the Australian defence and national security community.

Individuals are invited to apply their skill and expertise to solve one of 10 AI and ML research and development related challenges.

The Australian 5G Innovation Initiative provides businesses with opportunities to trial and test 5G applications that demonstrate 5G’s capability and benefits across a range of industry sectors and locations. The grant opportunity; 1. supports 5G trials that undertake rigorous, commercial, and replicable testing of 5G technology, 2. offers businesses the opportunity to identify 5G applications that demonstrate 5G’s capability and 3. supports various projects that demonstrate 5G’s capability and benefits across a range of industry sectors and locations.

Australian Manufacturing Fund for Personal Protective Equipment grant opportunity provides funds to eligible small and medium sized businesses, to invest in efficient and transformative manufacturing processes and re-train staff and/or create new jobs to produce personal protective equipment.

The funs aims to help the Victorian health sector identify, scale and embed innovation effectively.the Innovation Fund also supports scaling of successful projects, in addition to providing continued coaching and support to sector-led projects and building capability and leadership within the sector.

Rebates of between $1000 and $50,000 covering up to 50% of the capital cost of recycling equipment.

Funding to help redefine what it means to live with a disability or chronic disease. Thre Bionic Innovation challenges were set for 2020 challenge

The Boosting Female Founders Initiative – Round 3 helps women entrepreneurs overcome the disadvantages faced in getting access to finance and support to grow their startups. Targeted support will be on a co-contribution basis.

Cash prizes on offer for Australian and New Zealand researchers, startups and students. In addition to cash prizes, there is the opportunity for the winners of the research prizes to receive an investment into the commercial outcome of their solution. 

The ‘Build It Better’ Voucher Program provides small to medium manufacturing businesses in Victoria with funding of up to $20,000 to undertake redesign/reengineering projects to increase their adoption of additive manufacturing technology.

Building Partnerships grants help revenue generating startups and SMEs scale or grow strategically through the acquisition of a key customer or channel to market. Building Partnership grants require startups or SMEs to have an innovative solution that addresses a market gap or opportunity and the collaboration of a consortium of partners.

The Business Development Fund focuses on the growth of innovative Queensland businesses, particularly in the emerging industries of tomorrow. Provides early stage co-investment funding, promotes angel and venture capital investment in Queensland-based businesses. This helps to facilitate the development of a sustainable private market for venture capital finance in Queensland.

The Business Events Grant program aims to support the event industry including the tourism sector to fund Australian businesses to participate as buyers or sellers at pre-approved business events including exhibitions, conferences and conventions from 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2021. It aims to ease the financial pressure for business event organisers and to incentivise Australian business to participate as buyers/sellers at pre-approved events.

The Business Growth Fund Program is a grant program which provides targeted assistance for small and medium businesses that demonstrate high-growth and employment aspirations. The fund will enable successful applicants to purchase and implement specialised equipment or services to help them seize growth opportunities.

The Business Innovation Program helps NT businesses develop and commercialise innovation concepts. You can apply for mentoring and funding to support development of an innovation commercialisation plan.

The Business Innovation Support Initiatives program provides vouchers to businesses to help them research and develop new products, processes or services.

A number of schemes to support business recycling

Each time the Business Research and Innovation Initiative opens, we detail up to 5 challenges that government currently faces in policy and service delivery areas. The grant gives you the opportunity to solve these challenges using innovative approaches.

This round will focus on the Automatic mutual recognition of occupational registrations (AMR) scheme.

CBR Screen Fund is delivered by Screen Canberra whose remit is to support and grow the local ACT screen industry.  The Fund is a multipurpose, strategic fund that seeks projects, opportunities and partners that can best meet the objectives and criteria of the Fund.

Round 2 of the Business Support Fund supports the development and implementation of Circular economy Business models and practices that avoid waste generation in Victoria.

Applications to Stream 1 must develop Circular economy Business models or practices with the potential to avoid waste in Victoria.

Round 2 of the Business Support Fund supports the development and implementation of Circular economy Business models and practices that avoid waste generation in Victoria.

Applications to Stream 2 must implement Circular economy Business models or practices that will directly avoid waste in Victoria.

The Circular Solar grant program has $7 million available grant funding. The program seeks to reduce land-filling of solar panels and battery systems by supporting projects that address the management of these items at end-of-life.

The Circulate Industrial Ecology Program is designed to fund innovative, commercially oriented industrial ecology projects. Circulate supports projects that will recover materials that would otherwise be sent to landfill, and to instead use them as feedstock for other commercial, industrial or construction processes.

The Civil Construction Market Program provides grants to organisations to divert construction and demolition (C&D) waste from landfill, and post-consumer recyclate such as glass, paper and plastic through reuse, recycling and industrial ecology projects in the NSW civil construction sector.

The CEFC’s role is to increase investment in Australia’s transition to lower emissions. CEFC invest to lead the market, operating with commercial rigour to address some of Australia’s toughest emissions challenges – in agriculture, energy generation and storage, infrastructure, property, transport and waste. $20million total in the fund.

These grants are open to organisations seeking to commercialise a clean technology innovation. These grants will support clean technologies with high potential to commercialise and significantly reduce emissions in high-emitting and hard-to-abate sectors in NSW. EOIs close June 3.

The Clinical Translation and Commercialisation – Medtech (CTCM) program will offer financial assistance, educational support and infrastructure access to Australian small to SME to support medical device projects with strong commercial potential.

The Arts 15k-plus grant program offers between $15,000 and $60,000 funding for artists, creative industry professionals and organisations to deliver a one-off project or a program of activity.

The Arts U-15k grant program offers up to $15,000 for artists and creative industry professionals to deliver a one-off project or a program of activity.

Cooperative Research Centres (CRC) Grants provide funding for medium to long-term, industry-led research collaborations. CRC grants fund medium to long-term, industry-led research collaborations

CRC-P grants provide funding for short-term research collaborations. Round 13  is open to all industry sectors however will have a focus on supporting projects that align with the National Manufacturing Priorities.

Main Sequence Ventures is manager of the CSIRO Innovation Fund, which is intended to help improve the translation of Australian publicly-funded research into commercial outcomes and stimulate innovation in Australia. 

CSIRO Kick-Start provides matched funding for start-ups and small to medium enterprises to help access CSIRO’s research expertise and capabilities to help grow your business.

The fund is open to organisations partnering together to find innovative new ways to improve the quality or availability of cyber security professionals in Australia. Grants from $250,000 up to $3 million are available to fund 50% of eligible project expenditure. Each application must be a joint application with a lead organisation, who is the main driver of the project and is eligible to apply, and at least one other project partner.

Support to QLD SME to enhance their prospects for securing participation in defence and aerospace industry supply chains.

Defence Global Competitiveness Grants will help Australian SMEs to invest in projects that build export capability to build a stronger, more sustainable and globally competitive Australian defence industry.

Defence Innovation invest and assist innovative small businesses via an open call for proposals against defined innovation priorities, whereby you can submit your proposals to Defence 365 days of the year.

Defence Innovation Partnership’s Collaborative Research Fund provides up to $150,000 to support genuine collaboration across government, universities and industry, as a catalyst for defence-relevant research, development and innovation.

The National Intelligence and Security Discovery Research Grants (NISDRG) program supports excellent research that deepens understanding of emerging science and technology to address intelligence and national security interests.

The ORnet is a collaborative initiative between Defence and academia that will bring together a network of universities to work on Defence problems.  It was established to grow and strengthen the Australian operations research (OR) community’s ability to support Defence decision making, with a particular focus on Australian Defence Force design and employment.

The Co-funded Exploration Drilling Program t is a competitive program, open for applications twice a year, which offers up to a 50 per cent refund for innovative exploration drilling projects, capped at specific amounts.

The grant provides small/medium businesses up to $25,000 to improve energy efficiency practices and technologies and better manage energy consumption to reduce their power bills.

Business growth grants are small grants to engage external expertise to help you implement the recommendations in your have received in your Entrepreneurs’ Programme business advice or facilitation service plan.

Following an Innovations Connections Facilitation, you can apply for an IC Grant to undertake a research project that addresses the recommendations made in the Facilitation Report. Research projects must be in collaboration with a Publicly Funded Research Organisation and should develop a new idea with commercial potential.

Export Market Development Grants (EMDG) scheme is a key Australian Government financial assistance program for aspiring and current exporters. Administered by Austrade, the scheme supports a wide range of industries.

The Farm Innovation Fund is part of the NSW Government’s Drought Strategy and is a long term, low interest rate loan for NSW farmers for permanent on-farm infrastructure.

Voucher scheme helps companies access the know-how needed to innovate, diversify, improve productivity and take new and innovative products to market.

Concentrating on high growth industry sectors, the government has developed a suite of Future Industries sector strategie. The strategies are guiding the government’s investments and activity. Priority actions for government under the strategies include investment facilitation, grants and other programs, targeted infrastructure improvements, programs to build workforce skills, and collaborative initiatives to support the adoption of global best practices.

The Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (GACD) supports international and interdisciplinary collaborations in research, focusing on chronic non-communicable diseases. The GACD places particular emphasis on research into cardiovascular diseases (mainly heart disease and stroke), type 2 diabetes, chronic respiratory conditions, mental health and certain cancers.

The Global Innovation Linkages Program provides funding to help Australian businesses and researchers collaborate with global partners. Your project must be in at least 1 of the 6 priority areas. The priority areas align with the 6 Government-funded Industry Growth Centres set up to support industry.

The Horticulture Innovation Fund is enabling industry to partner with research organisations on projects that use new technologies and techniques for improving overall economic performance.

The HyGATE Initiative is intended to support real-world pilot, trial, and demonstration projects along the hydrogen supply chain and to facilitate collaboration between Australian and German partners.The program is open to funding proposals for deployment stage projects related to any aspect along the entire value chain for hydrogen produced from renewables – from hydrogen generation from renewables, further processing into derivatives such as synthetic fuels or green ammonia, to transport, storage, usage and unlocking commercial or financing models.

Incubator Support – New and Existing Incubators gives incubators the help they need to assist start-ups,

The Innovation Booster Grant is an initiative of the WA Government’s New Industries Fund, which assists WA-based startups and small businesses to commercialise their innovative ideas or projects, and to expand to create jobs. The grant is designed to provide your startup or small business with the financial boost it needs to access professional skills, services or knowledge, enabling you to advance your innovative idea, project or commercial activity in WA.

ICO Grant program and provids matched funding between $10,000 and $30,000. The program supports the thriving startup culture in Canberra and empowers entrepreneurs to develop and grow their innovative ideas.

Innovation Connections assists businesses to understand their research needs, connect with the research sector and fund collaborative research projects. Eligible for businesses in identified growth sector.

The Fund has been established to support new and innovative approaches to employment support and employment services through the provision of small grants.

EOI now open for the Investment Attraction Fund. Applications are encouraged from businesses and investors seeking financial assistance and support to establish and grow their operations in WA.  EOI submissions are sought from a range of industries that align with WA’s priority sectors, including energy, METS, space industries, defence industries, health, and medical life sciences, primary industries, international education, tourism, events, and the arts.

The Local Capability Fund assists SMEs in WA to increase their capability and competitiveness as suppliers of products, services and works to the WA State Government, major projects and other important markets. The current open rounds are:Aboriginal Business, Supplying Key Major Projects and National & International Standards Compliance.

Made in Queensland provides matched funding to manufacturers to reimburse up to 50% of the costs of innovative processes and technologies.

Awarded for outstanding achievements in physical science

Funding for: Metering and equipment upgrades, Compressed air metering and Compressed air and steam system services

The Manufacturing Hub Grant Program was developed to address identified industry challenges and opportunities associated with manufacturing firms transitioning to advanced manufacturing and provides funding support between $5,000 and $1 million. Up to $4.5 million is available for each manufacturing hub to build the advanced manufacturing capability of the Cairns, Gladstone, Rockhampton and Townsville regions.

Medical Devices Fund is a competitive technology development and commercialisation program. It aims to provide support to individuals, companies, public and private hospitals, medical research institutes, universities and the medical devices industry, to take local innovation to market.

The Medtech Manufacturing Capability Program is open to Victorian manufacturers and medical technology businesses to support the development of scale-up product manufacturing or manufacturing processes and other related activities that will enable local manufacturing. Applications close 5 April 2022.

Minimum Viable Product grants are designed to support promising startups with the funds needed to progress from a proof of concept stage to a minimum viable product. The grants are aimed at startups that are yet to generate revenue to help them engage with a potential business customer, or channel to market, and create innovative solutions that address compelling industry needs or market gaps.

The Demonstrator Mission grant opportunity provides funding to Australian industry and research institutions focusing on Phases C to F mission development activities for current and existing space projects.

This grant opportunity provides funding to leverage and diversify Australia’s world leading remote operations skills and experience by developing new foundation services capabilities, encouraging investment and opportunities in the Australian space sector. Trailblazer Stage 1 is an open competitive grant opportunity providing up to $4 million for up to two successful applicants to develop foundation services rover solutions through early mission phases to Preliminary Design Review (PDR).

The Australian Moon to Mars Supply Chain Capability Improvement Grants provide Australian businesses with grant funds to build capacity to deliver products and services into domestic and/or international space industry supply chains that could support Moon to Mars activities.

The $19.75 million CTCM program is targeting Australian SMEs and aims to boost commercialisation of home-grown medical devices. The CTCM program can provide between $250,000 and $1.5 million to SMEs to support early clinical development of medical devices with commercial potential.

Smart Farms Small Grants is an open, competitive, grant opportunity to support projects to increase farming, forestry and fishing communities’ awareness, knowledge, skills and capacity to adopt best practice sustainable agriculture.

Offering grants of between $300,000 and $1 million, to support the establishment of new product stewardship schemes and expand existing schemes. The Australian Government supports product stewardship schemes which reduce waste and prevent harmful materials from ending up in landfill.

The Neo-Bionica Technology Voucher Program (TVP) supports researchers, clinicians, start-ups, and collaborators to progress their bioelectronic concept or device to the next phase of development through a short-term collaborative project (approx. 6-8 weeks). The TVP has a total pool of $250,000, with vouchers varying in value depending on the project and phase of development. EOIs close 1 April 2022.

New Energy Jobs Fund is designed to support Victorian-based projects that create long-term sustainable jobs, increase the uptake of renewable energy generation, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and drive innovation in new energy technologies.

The New Frontiers Cooperative Drilling program provides grants to successful applicants for exploration drilling programs (Group 1, 6 and 10 minerals only) that demonstrate strong prospectivity, sound financial planning and a proven technical base.

NSW Smart Sensing Network (NSSN) is calling on research, industry and government stakeholders to form collaborative proposals and apply for funding under round two of the NSSN Grand Challenges Fund. The Fund has been established to promote the development of innovative, collaborative research projects that advance smart sensing solutions to the eight NSSN Grand Challenges: ageing, bushfires, COVID-19, water; mining, and smart places and buildings.

Applications close 21 February 2022.

The objectives of the NSW Government Bushfire Technology Pilots Program are to:

• Enable NSW businesses to commercialise field-ready technology for bushfire-related applications through the trial or pilot of technology with end-user agencies in NSW
• Improve end-user agencies’ awareness of innovation possibilities in bushfire management and operations through exposure to new technology.

Applications close 7 February 2022.

NSW Circular has launched the Circular Challenge Funding Scheme in a new round of support for Australian research. The Circular Challenge fund of $600K will be used to support one or more collaborative iconic projects that will enable the delivery of circularity in, and scaling of, critical supply chains identified by the work of NSW Circular.

The COVID-19 TechVoucher program provides support funding for technology-rich startups, scaleups or small and medium enterprises to collaborate with Publicly Funded Research Organisations to accelerate the commercialisation of innovative R&D products and services that address the many disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

NSW Defence Innovation Network is calling for collaborative proposals in the field of Cyber security and Undersea surveillance. Through its Strategic Investment Initiative, DIN will invest $900K of research funding in developing cutting-edge prototypes for defence use.

NSW Government calls for R&D solutions that strengthen the entrepreneurship capability of the State for a post-COVID-19 economy. The theme for Innovation Districts Challenge Three is Entrepreneurship. The Innovation Challenge calls on businesses and research institutions for solutions to strengthen the State’s entrepreneurship capability. Solutions could champion Indigenous entrepreneurs, strengthen sovereign capability and local supply chains or address the workforce gap created by international closures.

This NSW Government program includes a $5 million grants scheme to establish a reliable, domestic supply of PPE products that have been critical in the response to COVID-19 including masks, gowns, disinfectant, handwash and soap or their components.

The Physical Sciences Fund is a competitive development and commercialisation program for technological innovations in NSW. The fund aims to build on these strengths by supporting the translation of research into devices and systems ready for commercialisation. Preliminary applications close May 2, 2022.

The R&D Fund supports SMEs and scaleups to commercialise products that address the health, social or economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Funding will be in the range of $250,000 to $1 million and targets products within the TRL level 4-9 to help them move along the TRL scale.

To support the social and economic recovery of our regions, the NSW Government’s $20 million Regional Events Acceleration Fund helps organisations to attract new major international and domestic events to regional areas and supports existing regional events to grow even bigger and better.

The Prime Minister’s Prizes for Innovation is Australia’s most prestigious awards for outstanding achievements in research- based innovation.

The Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science is Australia’s most prestigious awards for outstanding achievements in scientific research.

Priority Investment Program has been established to work with industry, research and the tertiary sectors to attract investment and grow established and emerging priority areas of Canberra’s economy.

Awarded for outstanding achievements in research-based innovation for early-career achievements made within 10 years of completing relevant studies.

Designed to drive new, more effective solutions to complex policy and service delivery challenges in Victoria. Support for small-scale collaborative projects that test new approaches to deliver better outcomes.Open to any organisation working with or within the Victorian public sector.

The Queensland Government has announced $8 million over the next 2 years for the Social Enterprise Jobs Fund, as part of the Future Skills Fund. The Jobs Fund will continue to build on the commitments under the Queensland Social Enterprise Strategy to support the development of a sustainable and thriving social enterprise sector.

The Queensland Recycling Modernisation Fund is a joint initiative of the Queensland and Australian governments providing $40 million in funding support for industry infrastructure expansions or upgrades to address gaps in the State’s waste reprocessing capacity. Applications are now invited from public or private companies, local governments and not-for-profits looking to use proven resource recovery technologies to improve existing operations or bring significant new facilities to Queensland.

Queensland Women in STEM Prize recognises the valuable contribution of Queensland women working in STEM careers. Three prizes available

Encourages research collaborations between scientists in Queensland and the Chinese Academy of Sciences with grants over 2 years to deliver benefits for Queensland and China.

The RMF will support investment in new infrastructure to sort, process and remanufacture materials such as mixed plastic, paper, tyres and glass. Funding will be provided to the states and territories through National Partnership Agreements. For further information about how the RMF will be rolled out in your state, contact your state authority.

The Recycling Victoria Markets Acceleration Fund supports research institutes, industry and business to develop and commercialise new uses for recycled materials.

• Stream 1: Research, Development and Demonstration grants support projects that develop, demonstrate and validate new innovative uses for recycled materials. This page is about Stream 1.

The Recycling Victoria Markets Acceleration Fund supports research institutes, industry and business to develop and commercialise new uses for recycled materials.

• Stream 2: Commercialisation Support grants support activities directly related to the commercialisation of a novel product or process containing recycled materials

The $1.8 million Recycling Victoria Research and Development Fund supports research institutes and industry to develop new and innovative products or processes for recycled materials including plastic, paper, cardboard, glass and tyres. These grants are part of the Recycling Victoria policy funding.

The Regional Development Fund provides funding to businesses to promote economic development in all regions of the Northern Territory.

The $140 million Regional Job Creation Fund supports businesses to establish or expand in regional NSW to grow and encourages interstate or overseas businesses to invest in regional NSW. Expression of Interest must be submitted by 5pm Friday 18 February 2022 to proceed with the application process.

This round of funding offers regional and remote organisations in New South Wales the opportunity to apply for funding from a total pool of $7 million available nationally through the Australian Government’s Recycling Modernisation Fund (RMF) and Remanufacture NSW.

The Research and Development Tax Incentive (R&D Tax Incentive or R&DTI) helps to offset some of the costs you put into eligible R&D, which benefits the wider Australian economy.

Provides funding to Queensland’s resource recovery industries through support for projects and initiatives that divert waste from landfill, reduce stockpiling and create jobs. Funding is available to local governments, established businesses and not-for-profits looking to use proven resource recovery technologies to improve existing operations or bring significant new facilities to QLD

The Science and Innovation Awards for Young People in Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry is a competitive, annual grants program to support young people aged between 18 and 35 years to undertake a project on an innovative or emerging scientific issue, including biophysical and social sciences, that will contribute to the ongoing success and sustainability of Australia’s agricultural, fisheries and forestry industries.

The Securing Raw Materials Program provides businesses with up to $5 million to relocate or expand into regional Australia and partner with a regional university or research organisation to undertake research into, and/or development of, innovative and locally sourced raw material supplies (including establishing new suppliers or products and value adding to existing known supplies).

The Seed-Start program equips innovative, early-stage South Australian startups with grant funding to support the commercialisation of an innovative product or service.

This product or service must be unique and demonstrate a sustainable competitive advantage in national and international markets.

If you are a Northern Territory (NT) business, Aboriginal enterprise or not-for-profit organisation you can get help to reduce day-to-day energy, water, waste and material costs through the Smarter Business Solutions program.

SmartSat VIC Node has a call for applications for co-funding of 12-month demonstrator projects up to $300,000 in value.
• Cash co-funding ratio 1:2 (industry: node)
• Vic industry-led, cash co-investment required

Funding rounds are open to projects that might fit into any SmartSat R&D program areas. Applications close June 3.

The South Australian Government has established the $50 million SA Venture Capital Fund that will invest in dynamic and innovative early-stage companies to accelerate their growth to a national and global scale.

Sovereign Industrial Capability Priority Grants will help Australian SMEs to invest in projects that build capabilities aligned with Defence’s stated Sovereign Industrial Capability Priorities. Priorities include (but are not restricted to): Collins Class submarine maintenance and technology upgrade, Continuous shipbuilding program, Land combat vehicle and technology upgrade, Enhanced active and passive phased array radar capability.

A large number of funding schemes open throughout the year

Sustainability Victoria is offering a rolling grants program to support Victorian organisations to invest in projects that reduce packaging waste to landfill.

The TTRA is supporting new research approaches to improve the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and management of diabetes, cardiovascular disease and their related complications. The TTRA Research Projects provide funding between $200,000 – $750,000 to help eligible organisations develop innovative preventative, diagnostic, therapeutic and/or disease management products/solutions for identified priorities associated with diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

Tax incentives for those investing in a qualifying early stage innovation company (ESIC). The incentives provide eligible investors, who purchase new shares, with a non-refundable carry forward tax offset and a modified capital gains tax (CGT) treatment.

Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) competition is run on behalf of the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl). It aims to develop and demonstrate a number of novel technologies and techniques in the area of Counter-IED ECM. Solutions put forward must consider the fast paced and changing market in RF technologies and provide capabilities that can evolve and keep pace with our adversaries abilities to exploit these changes.

Intelligent Ship is a Dstl project to develop novel and innovative technologies and concepts to facilitate the use of intelligent systems within future platforms, with potential for utilisation across defence.

The purpose of this Global-X Challenge is to discover, disrupt, and ultimately provide a catalyst for later development and delivery of revolutionary capabilities to the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps, the commercial marketplace, and the public. ONR Global is interested in promising concepts to achieve revolutionary capability advances with both military and commercial value in the multidisciplinary technology challenge areas

Australian universities involved in approved submissions on designated topics under the US Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) can apply for a grant of up to $3 million to fund their project.

The Victoria Prize for Science and Innovation is worth $50,000 per prize and will be awarded to a Victorian Scientist, Innovator, Entrepreneur and Researcher in the Life and Physical Sciences.

The fund is now open to support long‑term growth opportunities for businesses and boost employment and economic development across Victoria and will help to address barriers faced by successful small and medium enterprises (SMEs) that are ready to grow their business but can’t access the funds or find the right partner they need to take the next step.

The Victorian Government’s Energy Innovation Fund (EIF) is designed to support the commercialisation of innovative, emerging renewable energy technologies across the State. The EIF will support activities that progress innovative projects in their commercialisation continuum including feasibility/pre-investment studies, front-end-engineering-design, large scale pilots and demonstrations.

The Clean Energy Future Fund supports the implementation of innovative clean energy projects in WA which offer high public value through contributing to one or more of the following outcomes:
1. significant, cost-effective reduction in greenhouse gas emissions below projected (or baseline) emissions as a direct result of the clean energy project
2. design, deployment, testing or demonstration of innovative clean energy projects likely to deliver community benefits or lead to broad adoption and significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.

Funding of up to $150,000 is available for talented Western Australians aspiring to develop innovations that will address problems linked to an unmet health or medical need in Western Australia. The innovation could be incremental, transformative or disruptive.

The Innovation Seed Fund provides the opportunity for Western Australian innovators to develop their novel health and medical solutions to prime WA’s commercialisation pipeline, create high-level health sector jobs and bring innovations that improve the health and wellbeing of the community to realisation.

Funding will be provided on a competitive basis to innovators with early-stage proposals for novel processes, products and/or services that demonstrate potential to be commercialised and that may have a major impact on the health and wellbeing of the WA community.

This new Program aims to capitalise on WA’s significant capability in innovative medical technology and pharmaceutical (MTP) research and support the acceleration of this research into the development and manufacture of products such as medical devices (physical and/or digital), diagnostics, biologics and pharmaceuticals.

The vouchers are aimed at small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) and a total of $400,000 matched funding is available through the Program.

Under the $5 million Western Sydney Investment Attraction Fund innovative, fast-growing businesses in Western Sydney can apply for assistance from Jobs for NSW.

Women in STEM and Entrepreneurship grants encourage participation of girls and women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics leading to STEM education and careers.

​​​​​Funding for partnerships between training providers and industry to deliver innovative strategies that; improve training outcomes and increase the relevance of training to their industry.

​​​​​Funding for partnerships between training providers and industry to deliver innovative strategies that; improve training outcomes and increase the relevance of training to their industry.