Austrade’s Export Market Development Grants (EMDG) program helps Australian businesses grow their exports in international markets. These grants encourage small to medium enterprises to market and promote their goods and services globally. About the program We administer the government’s EMDG program. Since 1974, EMDG has assisted more than 51,000 unique small and medium size Australian… Continue reading DEADLINE: Export Market Development Grants

Cicada x Tech23  are searching for Australia's most promising emerging deep tech ventures. This is an opportunity for you to have a national platform to share your vision and ambition. Cicada x Tech23 Australia’s biggest deep tech showcase celebrating visionaries and innovators with extraordinary ideas to impossible challenges. Here are a few things you should… Continue reading DEADLINE: Circada x Tech23 Applications

Starting May 2023, AUSCEP aims to equip entrepreneurial clinicians with the skills and networks to transform your ideas into products and businesses that benefit the clinical care of patients — both in Australia and around the world. The program will be delivered over 12 months with 8 regular pit stops. Together with a community of 100+… Continue reading DEADLINE: AUSCEP (Clinical Entrepeneur Program)

The 7-month, part-time Perth Biodesign Course brings together multidisciplinary teams to identify unmet clinical needs and work towards inventing a medical technology or digital health solution, whilst learning about the development process. Teams usually come together once a week, on a Thursday evening, to learn, and put into practice, the course content delivered by course… Continue reading DEADLINE: Applications for Perth Biodesign Course

See yourself as a gamechanger? Let us recognise and celebrate your achievements…and open doors to future opportunities The InnovationAus Awards for Excellence celebrates outstanding performance in the commercialisation of innovative Australian ideas and IP. Since our inaugural program in 2021, the Awards has evolved into an exciting platform that shines a spotlight on the creators… Continue reading Main Entires – InnovationAus Awards

"Educating and connecting investors of tomorrow. Where we believe the potential is unlimited" YOUNG IC will be hosting an Interactive Q/A with Andy Lamb on Investing in Disruption. Experience a fun and engaging event where we become better investors. Andy Lamb is a successful investor, entrepreneur and innovator. A challenger of the status quo, driven by innovation, and the excitement of what… Continue reading Unlimited Potential – Investing in Disruption

Want to get your tech known in WA, across Australia and around the world? Need an industry mentor to help you create the perfect “pitch” your innovation? Looking for investment and industry / network opportunities to grow your tech? If you answer YES to any of this, then you should join the Awards! The INCITE… Continue reading DEADLINE: Incite Awards

In collaboration with Southern Ports, ICP is proud to work alongside Innovation Cluster to deliver an exciting Iron Ore Circuit hackathon. This hackathon is a week-long virtual & on-site event designed to bring together students, programmers/developers, industry professionals, researchers, scientists and creative technologists to work collaboratively in cross-discipline teams to find innovative ways to improve… Continue reading Iron Ore Circuit Hackathon

Translate your healthcare ideas into impactful real-world solutions Starting May 2023, AUSCEP aims to equip entrepreneurial clinicians with the skills and networks to transform your ideas into products and businesses that benefit the clinical care of patients — both in Australia and around the world. The program will be delivered over 12 months with 8 regular… Continue reading DEADLINE: Clinical Entrepreneur Program

Details Entrepreneurship is not always a smooth path, and setbacks and failures are an inevitable part of the journey. But what separates successful entrepreneurs from the rest is their ability to fail forward - to learn from setbacks and use those lessons to grow and thrive. As Henry Ford once said 'The only real mistake… Continue reading Supercharge your Startup

This webinar will provide a background to offshore seaweed aquaculture including an Australian perspective, the biophysical effects arising from interaction with waves and currents and an overview of current projects in offshore seaweed aquaculture. We’ll touch on the opportunities for cultivating macroalgae in the open ocean, required adaptation to high energy environments along with the… Continue reading Flow interactions with seaweed and implications for offshore aquaculture

Applications for the 2023 Premier's Science Awards are now open and will close at 10:00AM (AWST) on Thursday 27 April 2023 The Premier's Science Awards recognise and celebrate the outstanding scientific research and engagement taking place in Western Australia. Winners will be announced at the Premier’s Science Awards ceremony in September 2023. WA scientists, researchers, STEM tertiary students and… Continue reading DEADLINE: Premier’s Science Awards Applications

Learn How to Become a Defence Industry Supplier with ODIS. Hear from our guest speaker, Greg Blycha (Defence Business Advisor) on How to become a defence supplier, Why get accredited? What to expect (the process) and the support available to SME's. The Office of Defence Industry Support (ODIS) provides a seamless experience for small and medium… Continue reading The Office of Defence Industry Support (ODIS): Learn How to Become a Defence Industry Supplier

Our accelerator program is designed for local startups who are ready to scale on a domestic and global level, fast. Since launching in 2017, the program has invested over $2M in startups, and facilitated an additional $16M in follow-on investment and has a portfolio valued at $106M. While 2023 is set to be bigger than… Continue reading DEADLINE: Plus Eight Accelerator Program Application

If you're a data science student, graduate or working in the field and wanting to refine and develop your problem-solving skills and create compelling business presentations, then this workshop is perfect for you. Led by experienced technology trainers from Visagio, this hands-on session will equip participants with universal problem-solving techniques and their real-world applications by data… Continue reading Upskilling Workshop: Problem-Solving Techniques for use in Data Science

Event description Facilitated by Mark Pullen from Westmark IP, and joined by local entrepreneur Nathan Omodei from The Leisure Collective, which owns surf and coastal lifestyle brands ‘Creatures of Leisure’, ‘OTIS Eyewear’, ‘Sito Shades’ and ‘Layday’, this interactive workshop will focus on the IP challenges faced by startups when protecting new ideas. Don’t miss this… Continue reading Innovation Cluster: REGIONAL VENTURES: SOUTH WEST INNOVATION SERIES: Workshop 1 – IP for Entrepreneurs

International Girls in ICT Day is a global movement encouraging girls and young women to pursue science, technology, engineering, art and math (STEAM) education and careers. Cisco are excited to collaborate with Innovation Central Perth (ICP) to celebrate the occasion, providing an event at Curtin University that will explore the vast opportunities for women in… Continue reading Girls in ICT Day

Our monthly series is an opportunity for representatives from across the MTP sector to connect, collaborate and learn about upcoming opportunities, and hear the stories and successes of WA organisations developing health and medical innovations. Join us over light refreshments each month at the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research. This month’s event will feature… Continue reading WA MTP Sector Spotlight Series ft. Alcolizer Technology

The research and development (R&D) tax incentive aims to boost competitiveness and improve productivity across the Australian economy by: encouraging industry to conduct R&D that may not otherwise have been conducted improving the incentive for smaller firms to undertake R&D providing business with more predictable, less complex support. The research and development (R&D) tax incentive… Continue reading DEADLINE: R&D Tax Incentive

The Australian Technologies Competition (ATC) is a premier growth and awards program for innovative Australian technologies with global growth potential. ATC seeks to identify and accelerate Australian technology 'scale-ups' across more than a dozen sectors/applications including clean energy, fintech/regtech, medtech, critical technologies (Web3), advanced manufacturing, social impact, and more. Successful entrants will have access to… Continue reading Entries Open: Australian Technologies Competition (ATC)

The in-person National Robotics Strategy workshops will be held nationwide in April and May 2023. These workshops will focus on stakeholders’ experiences and the vision for robotics and automation in Australia. Each session will run for 90 minutes in the morning of the below dates. We will advise attendees of the workshop times and venues… Continue reading National Robotics Strategy: Perth workshop

Live Stream Event: Unlocking Disruptive Innovation Capabilities for Defence   Join us for a live stream event at CERI to learn more about how London based jHub Defence Innovation’s diverse team of military, civilian, and contractor staff is unlocking novel and disruptive capabilities for Defence through opportunity-led and user-centred approaches. During the live stream event,… Continue reading jHub Defence Innovation Livestream

Empower your business to thrive. Join our free workshop to demystify the grant application process. Creating long-term support infrastructure that empowers Peel businesses and industries to thrive is essential for the economic resilience of the region. This includes ensuring accessibility to government tender opportunities and providing support to increase capability and capacity for successful participation… Continue reading Applying for Grants Workshop

Experts from various sectors will discuss all considerations for early-stage companies that want to manufacture products. ANFF-C is pleased to announce that Department of Education First Assistant Secretary for Research Dom English and Assistant Secretary Carolyn Shrives will present the second webinar of ANFF-C’s ‘Manufacturing for Startups’ seminar. Mr English and Ms Shrives will provide… Continue reading ANFF-C webinar series: Manufacturing for Startups

Are you an Australian manufacturer of medical devices, medicines or biologicals? If so, you are no doubt aware that your manufacturing licence requires compliance with the relevant code of Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP). Join us for this unique event where we will explore the basic principles behind Good Manufacturing Practice and ISO 13485, and hear… Continue reading A SME’s Guide to Good Manufacturing Practice