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 AMGC Commercialisation Fund is a $30 million fund to co-fund projects that focus on the six National Manufacturing Priorities recently announced by the Australian Government as part of its Modern Manufacturing Strategy. The Fund is intended to invest in later stage commercialisation, not early-stage research-based programs. However, project applicants are strongly encouraged to include collaboration with research partners and other Australian manufacturers.

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 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 program will provide targeted support on a co-contribution basis to female founders of startup businesses (startups) to scale into domestic and global markets. The program will also provide expert mentoring and advice to meritorious applicants.

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.

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.

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.

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 11 is open to all industry sectors however will have a focus on supporting projects that align with the National Manufacturing Priorities and also includes dedicated funding for projects that support research and development activities in regional areas.

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 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 Energy Efficient Communities Program – Community Energy Efficiency and Solar Grants 2020 provides community groups with grants up to $12,500 for energy efficient equipment, energy generation and storage systems, and energy audits.

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.

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

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.

The Innovation Vouchers Program can provide SMEs with the financial boost it needs to access professional skills, services or knowledge, enabling you to advance your idea or commercial activity in Western Australia.

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.

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.

$800 million is available to provide co-funding of up to one third of eligible project costs. This will be through grants between $20 million and $200 million to support large-scale projects that will transform the manufacturing sector by increasing collaboration, and building scale to enhance growth and competitiveness in the National Manufacturing Priority (NMP) areas. We welcome applications from businesses operating in sectors outside the six NMPs as long as the project aligns with one or more of the NMP sectors.

The Manufacturing Integration Stream supports projects that integrate Australian businesses into domestic and international value chains, propelling their goods and services into new markets. It provides co-funding to encourage linkages between local businesses and domestic and international firms, increasing scale, supply capacity, and the ability to innovate. There will be 6 grant opportunities under the Manufacturing Integration Stream that align with the National Manufacturing Priorities.

The Supply Chain Resilience Initiative provides up to $2 million to establish or scale a manufacturing capability or a related activity to address supply chain vulnerabilities for a critical product or input identified in the Sovereign Manufacturing Capability Plan. Funding can be used to build manufacturing capability through co-investing in new equipment, technology, skills and processes.

Applications should be guided by the Sovereign Manufacturing Capability Plan which outlines potential supply chain vulnerabilities for critical products, and opportunities for Australian businesses to address them.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 $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.

This program provides co-funding for waste and recycling infrastructure to support industry to respond to Australia’s waste export ban through the Recycling Modernisation Fund. Remanufacture NSW has 2 streams; Infrastructure (grants between $100,000 and $5 million) and Trials (grants between $50,000 and $1 million).

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

The Women in STEM and Entrepreneurship program supports investment in gender equity initiatives that aim for lasting systemic change by eliminating barriers for women’s participation in STEM education and careers, and entrepreneurship.

​​​​​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.