Hardware Ecosystem Project
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This website captures information surfaced during the ongoing development of a new platform to support the ecosystem of Australian Hardware & Manufacturing Businesses.
The audience ranges from students and founders to startups through scaleups to corporates, incubators, accelerators, investors, funds, industry, education and government.
Our focus is on the most under-served sector in the start-up space: new business that has hardware as a key part of its value proposition.
Our goal is to create a comprehensive ecosystem dashboard for startups and local business and help foster a globally competitive Advanced Manufacturing Industry in Australia.
We do not intend to replace the many exceptional and varied efforts of other individuals, groups and organisations. Instead our goal is to leverage existing projects and related directories as well as many other sources of information linked from this site and combine them in a single practical reference for all participants to use.
Eventually we seek to create an Online Application enabling distributed and dynamic information sharing between all stakeholders. Until then we continue to research the sector to produce reports, build a database and map the ecosystem as it currently exists.
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We are updating this website, the database and map as more information is gathered and we seek your input to help us. In particular we invite you to review the information appearing in the 20 plus categories published at this website. Please advise us of any errors or omissions. The best way to communicate with us is via email. We invite you to join the group and participate. We list related events and host project meetings as well.
The current sponsors of this project are BitScope Designs, CSIRO Lindfield and Western Sydney University. We plan to establish a not-for-profit entity to enable the project to grow and mature.
If this interests you and you'd like to participate please join us!
Events
Selected events of interest to this project.
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Launch of the Technology Council of Australia. The formation of the TCA by senior and emerging leaders across Australia’s tech sector recognises that Australia’s tech sector is now a key pillar of the economy, employing 861,000 people and contributing $167 billion to the economy annually. The tech sector is also crucial to Australia’s recovery and reopening. |
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- Spark Festival is Australia’s largest event for startups, innovators and entrepreneurs. Our attendees are getting started, or going global. It will be a 12 day online opportunity to learn from and connect into the innovation ecosystem right across Australia. Startups, hubs, accelerators, universities, government, corporates, professional services. |
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Gabrielle Upton: Join this forum to discuss some of the suggested recommendations flowing from the accelerating R&D initiative and to also offer your views. This project has expressed some views on this previously. |
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Join Venture Cafe Sydney to hear Ben Sands explain how to build a hardware company in 6 painful years. The Virtual Cafe will also be hosting Hardware Fair Expo with networks of local manufacturers and suppliers ready to answer your questions and brainstorm ideas. |
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Gabrielle Upton: join me, along with Chief Scientist & Engineer Hugh Durrant-Whyte, on Tuesday 7 July from 12:00 - 1:00pm for an online Zoom Webinar discussion hosted by the Committee for Sydney to discuss the acceleration of R&D in NSW. Now more than ever in a COVID-19 world, we need to accelerate R&D commercialisation to creatre new jobs, services and products in NSW. Registration for the webinar is essential and can be done through this link: https://lnkd.in/eJU-R5S I hope you can join us! This project has expressed some views on this previously. |
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What post-covid world do we want to create? That’s the question Bruce Tulloch poses in his recent think-piece. “Corporate "free market" capitalism simply does not work in a time of crisis. That much is obvious to everyone right now. We have never before had the technology, ideas and raw productive capacity to survive this crisis and prosper beyond it than we do right now.” |
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Medtech Hypothetical. The NSW Active MedTech Community normally meets at Venture Cafe Sydney face-to-face once a quarter but this has been disrupted by Covid-19. Instead, we will have the same session online, at the earlier time of 4:00pm. We are working with Venture Cafe to run a MedTech Hypothetical, where we brainstorm what it would take to develop emergency medical equipment from scratch in just a few months. This is a very real scenario being played out as we speak among governments around the world. Countries and even states are no longer able to import equipment and are looking to local companies to rapidly develop medical devices such as ventilators and the like. |
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COVID-19 Stimulus Package Webinar. Confused about Morrison's COVID-19 stimulus package? Our free webinar will clear the air. |
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The Studio Christmas Drinks The Studio Board invites you to celebrate and raise your glass in a toast to another successful year for The Studio at Sydney Startup Hub. Please join us to congratulate The Studio residents on their amazing achievements and thank our partners and sponsors for their support. Special Guest: Hon. Gabrielle Upton, MP will be joining us and provide insights on NSW and Australia's startup and innovation ecosystem. Doors open at 6 pm with drinks and canapes. |
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- Startup Grind APAC Conference Startup Grind (in partnership with Google for Startups) proudly presents the second APAC regional startup conference! This Summer - The world's largest independent startup community with 2m entrepreneurs, in 600 cities in 125 countries will host it's second APAC regional conference in Melbourne. |
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- StartCon Australia's largest startup & growth conference. StartCon unites the entire ecosystem as the largest gathering of startups, entrepreneurs, investors, media and corporate innovation teams in Australia. |
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SYD Hardware Day Hardware is not for everyone, but everyone in Hardware will be here! Calling all Hardware founders, funders and friends - this half day event has something for everyone! |
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Tech23: Hurting heads with deep Aussie tech for eleven years and counting! Tech23 joins the dots between homegrown tech, investors, innovators, and entrepreneurs. At Tech23, you never know who you might meet. Applications to be one of the 23 companies to present at Tech23 2019 open on Monday 15 July 2019. |
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Delivering Smart Products How to create commercially robust designs and manufacturing. |
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Hardware For Humans at Venture Cafe Sydney as part of the weekly meetup in Macquarie Park. Join us talks and panels on Re-Designing For The Circular Economy, Igniting Moonshot Thinking, Designing For Human Factor Elements and a Ideation session focusing on IoT in the home by Schneider Electric, all between 3 and 8pm. |
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- Spark Festival Spark Festival is Australia’s largest event for startups, innovators and entrepreneurs. Our attendees are getting started, or going global. They are entrepreneurs, investors, inventors, innovators, students, executives or just plain curious. But with a program of 17 days with more than 130 events, many of them free, they all find their spark at Spark. |
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Venture Capital in the Innovation Economy the history of venture capital establishes four statistical regularities: (1) The skew in VC returns is huge; (2) the returns generated by specific VC firms is persistent; (3) VC returns track the public equity markets; (4) VCs have been successful only in a limited set of sectors: IT and Biotech. The innovation economy is a world where progress is made by trial and error and depends on access to funding not concerned with immediately visible economic value. Two sources have played decisive roles historically: mission-driven governments and financial speculation generating occasional "productive bubbles". See the deck. Read the Book. |
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Demo Tables: Sydney Hardware Tech at Venture Cafe Sydney as part of the weekly meetup in Macquarie Park. Join us also for the Sydney Hardware Startup Meetup and talks by a range of others in the hardware space between 3 and 8pm. |
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Startup Grind hosts Peter Huynh (Qualgro Ventures) Peter is a Partner and Co-Founder of Qualgro VC, a venture capital firm based in Singapore which invests in startups at Series A & B, across Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand. The fund focusses on B2B tech investments, particularly in SaaS and Data, and the latest fund is US $100M. Some investments in Australia include Nura, Data Republic and Curious Thing. He is also an Investor and Mentor at Startmate, regarded as Australia’s most successful tech accelerator program. |
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Dolby Presents: Stacks of Audio Join us down at The Studio next Wednesday to explore an exciting Dolby Laboratories sponsored initiative to create a "maker space for audio". Joining them will be Audinate and Elytone Electronics Co., Ltd. and together they will explain what it takes to bootstrap a new business that has hardware as a key part of its value proposition. If you are a startup or SME and you want to learn how to design and build hardware fast and cost effectively, this is an event you won't want to miss! Watch the video. |
Reports
Reports and related data in support of them produced by this project.
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Accelerating R&D in NSW The NSW Government asked "how do we get the most out of NSW Government's R&D activity and how can NSW Government support and improve the R&D and commercialisation ecosystem more generally?" This is our response based on our initial 6 months of research. Feel free to use anything of value you find here if you make your own submission to Government. Links are in the document. |
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Business Database a new database listing existing local SME and related businesses uncovered during the work to produce the The NSW Hardware Ecosystem Report. |
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Ecosystem Map a map of existing local SME and related businesses uncovered during the work to produce the The NSW Hardware Ecosystem Report. |
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The NSW Hardware Ecosystem Report work conducted by the interns sponsored by our working group to map out the existing hardware manufacturing ecosystem in the wider Sydney region to provide exposure of these companies to startups, small-to-medium enterprises (SME’s) larger corporations. It is the first step in pursuit of our primary goal to empower Australian companies to discover and utilise domestic suppliers for sourcing and services that are commonly being outsourced overseas. It has produced this draft database of 360 businesses and a Google Map of their locations by category. |
Projects
Third-party projects we seek to leverage but not duplicate.
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ICT Sovereign Procurement Taskforce The Department of Customer Service is seeking feedback to help develop strategies and policies to ensure we diversify our partnership ecosystem and spend. The taskforce will support enabling increased number of government supply opportunities targeting small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and the potential for increased spend on SMEs. This will include indigenous suppliers, start-ups and disability suppliers. The goal is to ensure SMEs can compete on an equal footing in ICT and digital procurement activities. |
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COVID-19 Manufacturer Response This register has been devised to capture expressions of interest from Australian based manufacturers and individuals looking to assist with supply of goods, services or knowledge in tackling the current COVID-19 outbreak in Australia. As the situation develops, there may be a need for the goods you manufacture, the supplies you hold or the skills you have to be called upon. |
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The Startup Resource List from the Founder Institute provides entrepreneurs in nearly 100 cities with a sequential list of the best local tools, people, investors, and companies that help startups through every stage of their journey. "We created these lists because it takes a city to raise a startup". Adelaide has jumped on this creating this shared Google Doc to create this Resource List. It offers yet another potential pathway for us in NSW to do the same. |
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MASTER Hardware/Services Companies List enumerates relevant busineses in Sydney. A work in progress of this project. |
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Hardware Suppliers, vendors, contractors and network enumerates suppliers, shipping & logistics, contractors, networks and assets. A work in progress by Sonder Design and others. |
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The Hardware Startup Bible for Australian designers & hardware startups. An initiative of an innovative Australian Hardware business https://sonderdesign.com via the Australia Hardware Startups Facbook Group; We're bringing together anyone who interested in building a business in the world of physical products. |
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Innovation Catalyst Global is behind Expert Connect a directory of research expertise targeted at industry Innovation Challenges a marketplace which aggregates government/business challenges and notifies relevant experts so they can put forward solutions and Innovation Map which visualises innovation data, currently displaying the SA3 Region Innovation data and a range of other dataset provided by Department of Industry, Innovation and Science. The innovation map is from Open Data. The Data61 role is in the visualisation of the data rather than collecting it. There is a government team working on mapping research infrastructure (Innovation precincts team, refer to David Lawrence) and Chad Renando with Start-up Status is another primary source of their data. |
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Startup Status maps the Australian innovation ecosystem, including spaces, programs, investment groups, and more. An initiative of Innovation Ecosystems Australia, as part of a PhD research project to Map Innovation Ecosystems. Here is the live map with filters and a backgrounder on Version 2.0. Please offer feedback if there are any errors. Chad runs a blog on this and his related work here. |
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Startup Blink StartupBlink’s comprehensive, global startup ecosystem map and research center provides users with all the data they need to draw comparisons, view rankings, and make better informed business decisions. Our startup ecosystem rankings feature the strongest startup hubs in the world, while also giving smaller cities and countries the chance to be highlighted. The map is carefully curated and updated to assist startup founders, governments and investors in their quest to better understand what makes a healthy startup ecosystem. We also help corporates with data that supports their open innovation activities when connecting and supplying resources to relevant startups. |
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Community Sydney Startup HUB The NSW Government has teamed up with local startup Ramen Life and TechSydney to build an online community platform that connects the startups and people at the Sydney Startup Hub and the broader NSW innovation ecosystem community. The goal of the platform is to make it easier for NSW startups to find and connect with the startups, people, accelerators, incubators, and investors to innovate and grow. Initially access to the platform has been opened up to the members of the Sydney Startup Hub and the Local Innovation Network partners. Feedback is welcome and encouraged. Please send through your ideas to: enquiries@sydneystartuphub.com.au |
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Mapped In Israel a gateway to the Israeli high-tech ecosystem with easy access to jobs and data on startups, investors, R&D centers, incubators and coworking spaces. The content is crowdsourced. The platform seeks to keep all data as current and accurate as possible. Companies who join the map and post their jobs gain massive exposure from qualified job seekers, investors and press. Visitors can search and navigate the map as well as receive our email alerts for new jobs and companies. |
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Manufacturing Academy An initiative of AMGC, it provides tailored content filled with real research, real stories and real insights from Australia's most informed and successful manufacturing minds. |
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Snepo Research created Fab Labs which unfortunately failed but in the process they created this google map which (like Startup Status) is relatively easy to do (technically speaking, making a viable business as an hardware innovation lab and directory clearly isn't!). |
Meetings
Working group and related meetings.
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Startup Ecosystem Roundtable with NSW Minister of Innovation, Kevin Anderson MP. The meeting is by invitation only, with the opportunity for you to represent your organisation and contribute to the discussion aimed to create tangible and beneficial outcomes for the startup sector through proactive and collaborative engagement with Government. |
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Moonshot Nation Building: brainstorm solutions that may actually work. Time to think big, bold and outside the box. Moonshots. Space 2.0. Industry 4.0. Onshoring. |
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Bootstrap & Taxonomy: defining the scope, goals, audience, taxonomy and boostrapping the process of data collection, collation and discovery for this project. |
Documents
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Crossroads 2020 The StartupAUS Crossroads Report is the definitive guide to Australia’s tech startup sector. Now in its sixth edition, our 2020 edition of Crossroads features a foreword by Global Chair of Tesla Inc., Robyn Denholm, and an detailed look at the progress, milestones, challenges and opportunities for Australia’s technology sector. Crossroads 2020 details the rise of Australia’s most successful startups, the progress of the ecosystem in terms of capital, culture and talent, the political headwinds facing global technology and the importance of supporting startups for the future of Australia’s economic prosperity (Download). |
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Startup Communities Book. Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City. An essential guide to building supportive entrepreneurial communities "Startup communities" are popping up everywhere, from cities like Boulder to Boston and even in countries such as Iceland. These types of entrepreneurial ecosystems are driving innovation and small business energy. Startup Communities documents the buzz, strategy, long-term perspective, and dynamics of building communities of entrepreneurs who can feed off of each other's talent, creativity, and support. |
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Hardware Startup From Prototype To Production Creating hardware products poses significant challenges because it needs a mix of specialised expertise in technology and product design, physical supply chain and testing, manufacturing partnerships and considerable upfront funding which does not align well with existing investment models. The longer time to market compared to software products and limited opportunities to adapt iterative and agile development cycles makes hardware based product development a much riskier business undertaking. This substantial document covers all the important topics including product life cycle, DFM, Certification, Compliance, Safety, Security, Quality, Testing and Funding. It's a must read for anyone building products embedding electronics. This document was funded in part by Sony in the UK and published via Catapult Digital which is sponsored by UK Research and Innovation and Innovate UK. |
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North Shore Shared Workspaces & Innovation Groups The vision of this document is to bring together the leaders of shared workspaces on the north shore as well as the growing numbers of innovation ‘roof bodies’ / ecosystem groups and festivals / public education programs (eg https://northernsydneysciencehub.org ), in recognition of the centralising role that these places/communities play for startups and high-growth, innovative small businesses. |
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Sydney Hardware Startups SIG This document attempts to summarise the activities & organisations involved in the Sydney hardware startup ecosystem via NSIN. |
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NSW Treasury Senior Structure Extended Leadership Team – as at 1 July 2019 Interim roles assisting in formation of TTIP Group. |
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NSW Treasury Cluster The Treasury cluster, as the Government’s principal financial and economic adviser, enables the Government to deliver its promise to the people of New South Wales that the State will always be a great place to live and work. The cluster comprises several entities, including the Crown Finance Entity that reports large expenditures in relation to whole-of-State assets and liabilities. The Treasury, by comparison, represents a smaller proportion of total cluster expenditure. |
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NSW Economic Development Industry Trade Investment Connecting capabilities to better enable the delivery of economic prosperity for NSW. This deck outlines the NSW Government's cross-sector plan for industry, trade and investment. |
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Hardware Tech Startup Ecosystem This is the document from which this project was initially launched. |
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Jobs for NSW Roadmap (now Obsolete). |
Directories
Databases
Curated list of maps, directories and lists of relevant information. These are excellent resources that complement the work we're doing here.
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Global NSW positions Sydney and NSW as Australia’s global hub, bringing together the expertise of our people representing industry, innovation, workforce development, education and tourism. Global NSW is a government-wide plan to grow and build on our prosperity. We will do this by growing and diversifying trade, stimulating new business investment, fostering innovation and boosting our industry competitiveness in our cities and across the regions. |
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NSW Hardware Ecosystem Database created from work undertaken by interns sponsored by this working group to map out the existing hardware manufacturing ecosystem in the wider Sydney region. It is the first step in pursuit of our primary goal to empower Australian companies to discover and utilise domestic suppliers for sourcing and services that are commonly being outsourced overseas. They produced this draft database of 360 businesses and a Google Map of their locations by category. |
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University Startup Hubs a complete list of all Australian University Incubators, Accelerators and Co-Working Spaces maintained by Universities Australia, voice of Australia's Universities. |
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Australian Tech Startup Resources Gary Visontay's extremely comprehensive resource. Gary says "This site provides my curated list of blog posts, eBooks, reports and tools that might be useful to founders, investors and aspiring VC's interested in the Australian tech startup ecosystem. If you are an Australian early stage startup founder and would like to discuss your capital raising strategy, I'd be happy to talk. Contact me via Linked In". |
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Atlas of Economic Complexity is a powerful data visualization tool that allows people to explore global trade flows across markets, track these dynamics over time and discover new growth opportunities for every country. The Atlas places the industrial capabilities and knowhow of a country at the heart of its growth prospects, where the diversity and complexity of existing capabilities heavily influence how growth happens. It is developed at Harvard's Growth Lab which a research program within the Center for International Development housed at Harvard Kennedy School. |
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Open Data Australian Public Data. An easy way to find, explore and reuse Australia's public data. |
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Techboard Australian Startup |
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Startup Nation Israel's very successful directory |
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ScaleUp New Zealand Similar to Israel's directory |
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Crunchbase Discover innovative companies and the people behind them. |
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Pitchbook Research and analyze companies, deals, funds, investors and service providers across the entire private investment lifecycle. |
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League of Scholars Finding Hidden Talent and Academic Expertise. League of Scholars is an online talent discovery service that helps with strategic research recruitment, retention and collaboration. We help Governments, Universities and Companies with their research strategy, positioning and analytics. |
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SME Connect CSIRO's SME Connect team connects Australian small to medium sized businesses with Australia's research sector, facilitating and enabling innovation-driven partnerships through funding, support and resources. |
Funding
Sourcing of public funding, grants, co-investment and patient capital.
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AusTender Insights a tool that enables the interrogation of AusTender information in a way not previously possible. It has the ability to present historical data over time, report on multiple entities at once or by Govt department, provide graphical displays. Created by Data Ventures Pty Ltd. a new Australian company building tools that are able to ingest data from often hard to utilize or are in disparate systems and then applies some smarts to make it useful and insightful. |
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Grant Guru is the most comprehensive grants database in Australia. GrantReady has developed a one-stop-shop for grants. We give you direct access to over 1400 programs with $50 Billion available. Our data is up-to-date, easy to understand and all in consistent format so you can quickly decide: (A) If you are eligible (B) Your chances of success and (C) Effort versus reward. |
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Investing in Science is a program run by the NSW Chief Scientist to invest the state's research and development capacity under name Research Attraction and Acceleration Program (RAAP). |
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Business Growth Fund The Government is encouraging the creation of a private sector owned Business Growth Fund that would provide longer term equity funding to small businesses. Many small businesses find it difficult to attract passive equity investment which enables them to grow without taking on additional debt or giving up control of their business. An Australian Business Growth Fund would be expected to follow similar international precedents. |
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Australian Government Programs Find grants, funding and support programs from across government to help your business grow and succeed! |
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Boosting Business Innovation Program The NSW Government has invested $18 million in the Boosting Business Innovation Program, giving small businesses access to research organisations to build strong local business communities and stimulate economic growth in metropolitan and regional NSW. The NSW Government is working with all 11 NSW universities and CSIRO to deliver a range of new innovation spaces and activities for business communities. |
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Industry Growth Centres Through an industry-led process the Industry Growth Centres Initiative aims to drive innovation, productivity and competitiveness. The government is funding six Growth Centres in sectors of competitive strength and strategic priority. |
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AusTrade Australian Government financial assistance program for aspiring and current exporters. |
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Tech Vouchers Through TechVouchers, SMEs can be connected with an expert in a relevant field of research and embark on an innovative joint research project. tech.vouchers@industry.nsw.gov.au |
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CSIRO Kick-Start A new initiative for innovative Australian start-ups and small SMEs, providing funding support and access to CSIRO’s research expertise and capabilities to help grow and develop their business. george.feast@csiro.au |
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Minimum Viable Product Grants Minimum Viable Product (MVP) grants support promising pre-revenue startup businesses across all industry sectors to progress from proof of concept to a minimum viable product stage of development. enquires@sydneystartuphub.com.au |
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Jobs for NSW provides financial support to startups and emerging and fast-growth small to medium enterprises (SMEs) to build momentum and grow jobs. Update: Jobs for NSW is now part of NSW Treasury and it's structure undergoing change. See Documents below. |
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NSW Medical Device Fund The Medical Devices Fund 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. MOH-OHMRGrants@health.nsw.gov.au |
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NSW Defence Innovation Network (DIN) is an association of seven leading universities in NSW. The purpose of the DIN is to bring together NSW industry, universities, State Government and DST Group to address Australia’s defence needs. info@defenceinnovationnetwork.com |
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Medical Research Future Fund The MRFF is investing to supercharge the growth of our health and medical research, while fuelling jobs, economic growth and export potential. enquiries@health.gov.au |
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NSW Physical Sciences Fund The Physical Sciences Fund is a competitive development and commercialisation program for technological innovations in NSW. christina.newman@chiefscientist.nsw.gov.au |
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Main Sequence Ventures is managing the CSIRO Innovation Fund and is designed for a new kind of founder in which science and technology run deep. |
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Defence Innovation Hub Where a technology is identified as having an appropriate Defence application, Defence is able to work with the company, business or organisation through the Defence Innovation Hub, and provide a level of funding, so that the technology can be matured in a collaborative way. |
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Next Generation Technology Fund The Next Generation Technologies Fund, managed by DST, is a new government initiative introduced with the Defence Industry Policy Statement in 2016. |
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Accelerating Commercialisation Provides businesses with access to expert advice and matched funding of up to $1 million to cover eligible commercialisation costs to help them to take novel products, processes and services to market. |
Investment
Sources of private funding and investment.
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Hardware Club we are a venture capital firm that helps fearless founders tackle hard problems with capital, resources and collaboration. We are based in San Francisco, Paris and Tokyo. |
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AngelList Where the world meets startups (Sydney Angels) |
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AMP Tomorrow Fund Awards up to $1million in grants each year to amazing Australians doing great things in their communities. Grant recipients work in a diverse range of fields and include artists, athletes, social innovators, scientists, educators, disability advocates, technologists, filmmakers, fashion designers, medical researchers and musicians. The grants can be used for a range of activities, including travel, equipment, study costs, research and more. |
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Morpheus Ventures Morpheus is an early stage venture capital firm. We are entrepreneurs. We have been there from the start and we understand your challenges. We are operators. We have seen what works (and what doesn’t) first hand, and have come out the other end successfully. |
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Impact Tech Ventures A company focused on addressing and finding solutions to major social and environmental challenges in the APAC region. The verticals that ITV currently focuses on are: Energy (Clean / Renewable Energy, Energy Optimisation, Micro/Grid Scale Energy Storage , Recapturing Energy from Industrial Waste), Water (Decentralised Sewage Treatment, Desalination, and Grey Water Treatment), Agritech (Organic, Sustainable Food production and Food Handling), Medtech (Digital Health, Devices and Diagnostics). |
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Our Innovation Fund The firm's Founders, Partners, Investment Committee members and Investors are made up of some of Australia’s leading entrepreneurs and business builders. The team has significant investment, operational and strategic experience and seeks to add material value to companies we partner with. |
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BlackBird Ventures We invest in Australians with big ideas who want to be the best in the world. We provide equity capital for Seed, Series A and later stage. No cheque is too early. contact@blackbird.vc |
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Right Click Capital We're passionate founders and investors who back ambitious technology businesses in Australia, New Zealand, and South East Asia. We support founders who are building remarkable businesses and work with them to make their vision a reality. |
Incubators
Co-working spaces with support, programs and facilities specially designed for start-ups and SMEs.
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Sydney Startup Incubator the first of its kind in Sydney. Founded by Innovation Drive, a community of exceptional idea assessors, industrial designers, product designers, engineers and manufacturers who work together to produce high standard products ready for market, with consistently affordable rates. |
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Launch Pad Western Sydney University Launch Pad is a one-stop-shop business and innovation support program that provides facilities, assistance and resources for startup and high-growth technology based businesses in Western Sydney. Launch Pad supports business by providing modern collaborative work and meeting space, specialist business advice, mentoring, events, networking, training and education. |
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Cicada Innovations Cicada Innovations unlocks the power to create the industries and jobs of the future addressing some of the most pressing global issues that face our world today. We partner with technical founders to provide business support from ideation all the way through to incubation, leveraging the talent and capabilities of our University shareholders. |
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The Studio is a creative and media tech incubator in Sydney Startup Hub. Its vibrant community is focused on fostering and supporting tech startups to engage with new technologies to create global businesses in the media, entertainment, communications, music, games and creative industries. Many of these businesses include hardware products as a key part of their value proposition. |
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Arc Hardware Incubator Arc is a new kind of innovation space designed to help startups streamline the development and commercialisation of their innovative hardware products. Arc achieves this by providing efficient and affordable access to cutting-edge advanced prototyping and manufacturing equipment, technical know-how and industry mentorship. Affordable access is achieved by implementing a subscription-based model and by ensuring that the available equipment is used efficiently and on a continuous basis. |
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Antler We identify and invest in exceptional people. We're a global startup generator and early-stage VC firm that builds groundbreaking technology companies. |
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University Startup Hubs a complete list of all Australian University Incubators, Accelerators and Co-Working Spaces maintained by Universities Australia, voice of Australia's Universities. |
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Lindfield Collaboration Hub is an innovation incubator. A dedicated space for start-ups and SMEs to develop unique, high-tech products and devices. Early stage and established companies can move to CSIRO’s Lindfield campus and access our facilities, science know-how, experience, business networks and commercialisation savvy. We also work with government and organisations such as the Northern Sydney Science Hub to promote the next generation of Australian science and innovation. |
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EdgeGroup Incubator is about making a difference, for entrepreneurs, startups and the world. We support and invest in technology where we have passion, real-world experience and where we create a meaningful impact. We find inspiration from connections with like-minded, passionate individuals and companies, helping them grow solid businesses with an international focus that can make a difference in the world. |
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Macquarie University Incubator Our vision is to create entrepreneurship programs that train and nurture innovation, and to support the growth and success of impactful solutions to the world's problems. We aim to build a supportive community that encourages collaboration and commercialisation, helping people turn their ideas into a tangible asset. |
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Fledge Innovation Labs is an independent enterprise that provides low-cost access to collaborative working spaces, laboratory facilities, scientific equipment, and business support. This is backed up by an extensive network of experienced advisors and mentors from some of Australia’s most respected research institutions, service providers and multinational healthcare companies. We specialise in Med-Tech. |
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ACU Collaborate Plus is a free co-working space and business incubator for everyone and anyone who is working on an innovative start-up or looking to grow their existing business. |
Accelerators
Investment, education & mentor programs for start-ups and SMEs to accelerate early stage growth.
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Remarkable is an accelerator with a mission to harness the power of technological innovation to drive inclusion of people with disability. It goes back to a global competition that sparked the development of a solar powered wheelchair and an Australian first hackathon event called “Enabled by Design-athon” organised by Cerebral Palsy Alliance in 2014 in partnership with the University of Technology Sydney and FutureGov. |
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The Melt Creating Hard Things. The industrial prototyping lab and innovation accelerator, powering the creation of the world's best products. Warners Bay NSW. |
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The St.George Kick Start program exists to help Australian small businesses get started. Whether you have a big idea or an existing business – if you have a great idea you can apply for the program! To apply you must be an Australian resident and over 18 years of age. Apply now! |
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Connect@Lindfield is a commercialisation program specifically designed for Advanced manufacturing and Hardware start-ups and SME's. Understand the journey from Prototype to Production, with six face-to-face sessions over eight weeks dedicated to the growth of your company. Our program is facilitated in a hardware environment overflowing with technical advice, industry coaches/mentors and like minded deep-techpreneurs. |
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The Founder Institute is the world's largest pre-seed startup accelerator, having helped launch over 4,000 companies across 185+ cities and six continents. |
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University Startup Hubs a complete list of all Australian University Incubators, Accelerators and Co-Working Spaces maintained by Universities Australia, voice of Australia's Universities. |
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Innovyz provides end-to-end support to help Individuals, Universities, Research Centres, Existing Companies and Corporate Spinouts build and grow companies, to bring their innovations, research and ideas to market. We do this via our Nine Month Programs. We also assist people and organisations who develop industry, make policy, and who have major commercialisation projects via our Innovyz Special Projects Department. |
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10X Accelerator Founders 10x is our flagship industry-agnostic accelerator, tailored for high-potential startups who are founded by current UNSW students, staff or alumni. |
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Catalysr Catalysr is an award-winning pre-accelerator for early stage startups. We run intensive entrepreneurship programs for high-performing migrant and refugee entrepreneurs - aka Migrapreneurs - who want to find success in Australia by building their own tech startup. |
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Blue Chilli We connect entrepreneurs with corporates and investors to solve the world's greatest challenges with technology. |
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The Actuator We support the MedTech innovators who are changing the face of healthcare. |
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MedLab Cicada MedLab is a 12-week, mentor-driven accelerator program for early-stage founders who are building high-growth, disruptive medtech businesses. |
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GrowLab GrowLab is Australia’s accelerator for agrifood deep tech startups by Cicada Innovations. |
Research
Publicly funded and other research with a focus on commercialisation.
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CSIRO is Australia's national science research agency. At CSIRO, we solve the greatest challenges using innovative science and technology. Our value to the Australian economy is massive. Our proud legacy invented fast Wi-Fi, Aerogard and polymer banknotes. The estimated present value of benefits from our work is around $3.2 billion per year. This is almost three times our total annual budget and more than four times the funding provided by the Australian Government. |
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Data61 is CSIRO's data and digital specialist data sciences arm. It is at the forefront of data and digital in solving our greatest data-driven challenges today. |
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UTS RAPIDO is an advanced technology development unit focused on supporting organisations to deliver hardware and software products and solutions. RAPIDO bridges the gap between academia and industry by delivering commercial and social impact technology-based solutions. |
Education
Publicly funded and other education and adacemic research organisations.
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Universities Australia The voice of Australia's Universities. As the peak body for the sector, we advocate the vast social, economic and cultural value of higher education and research to Australia and the world. On behalf of our 39 member universities, we provide expert policy advice, analysis and statistical evidence, and media commentary on higher education. |
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Group Of Eight Australia's Leading Universities, leading excellence, leading debate. The Go8 is focussed on, and is a leader in, influencing the development and delivery of long-term sustainable national higher education and research policy, and in developing elite international alliances and research partnerships. |
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Innovative Research Universities Innovative Research Universities (IRU) is a coalition of seven comprehensive universities committed to inclusive excellence in teaching, learning and research in Australia. |
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Australian Technology Network The Australian Technology Network of Universities (ATN) brings together four of the most innovative and enterprising universities in Australia. The ATN is recognised as a global leader of a new generation of universities focused on industry collaboration, real-world research with real-world impact and produce work-ready graduates to become global thinkers in business and the community. |
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Regional Universities Network The Regional Universities Network (RUN) is a network of seven universities with headquarters in regional Australia and a shared commitment to playing a transformative role in their regions. |
Regulation
Australian and International Regulation Bodies.
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ACMA Australia's Communications and Media Authority regulates communications and media to maximise the economic and social benefits for Australia. We are an independent Commonwealth statutory authority. We regulate communications and media services in Australia. We have an Authority that makes decisions and an executive team that oversees our work. As a supplier, you must know and follow our rules for your product. You can have an Australian agent act on your behalf but you remain ultimately responsible for making sure your product complies with our rules. |
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EESS Electrical Equipment Safety System is a regulatory framework of ERAC The Electrical Regulatory Authorities Council which is the peak body of electrical safety regulators in Australia and New Zealand, working together to ensure electrical safety regulatory systems are contemporary and harmonised wherever possible. ERAC primarily covers electrical safety compliance. |
Facilities
Organisations offering fabrication and other facilities.
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UNSW Making UNSW is creating the largest network of connected makerspaces and workshops in Australia. A network of genuine collaboration and shared values. These values are centered on the principle of barrier free access to tools and tech for all Students, Staff and External Partners. |
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UTS Tech Lab transforming the way universities partner with industry. Tech Lab is a multidisciplinary research facility that supports bespoke industry-led partnerships designed to drive innovation and growth in engineering and IT. Partners gain access to cutting-edge equipment, funding opportunities, world-class research talent and the ability to commercialise foreground IP. |
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Lindfield Collaboration Hub Lindfield Collaboration Hub is an innovation incubator. A dedicated space for start-ups and SMEs to develop unique, high-tech products and devices. Early stage and established companies can move to CSIRO’s Lindfield campus and access our facilities, science know-how, experience, business networks and commercialisation savvy. |
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Sydney Nano Institute mission to discover and harness research at the nanoscale for the benefit of society. Nanoscale science and technology present exciting opportunities impacting a wide variety of areas including manufacturing, energy and the environment, health and medicine, communications, computing and security. The Institute offers nano science facilities for students and rearchers. |
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ANFF Australian National Fabrication Facility, providing micro and nano fabrication facilities for Australian Researchers. |
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AMMRF Australian Microscopy & Microanalysis Research Facility. |
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Launch Pad Western Sydney University Launch Pad is a one-stop-shop business and innovation support program that provides facilities, assistance and resources for startup and high-growth technology based businesses in Western Sydney. |
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UOW Maker Space The MakerSpace is a place to safely use tools and equipment to explore your creativity and test your technical skills. It's open to all students and staff to explore. |
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Sydney University Think Space ThinkSpace is a technology-driven, creative play-space that provides you with the opportunity to collaborate, design and create interesting things using new technologies. |
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Australian Nuclear Science & Technology Organisation leverages great science to deliver big outcomes. We partner with scientists and engineers and apply new technologies to provide real-world benefits. Our work improves human health, saves lives, builds our industries and protects the environment. |
Advocacy
Meetup, advocacy and collaborative groups of individuals and organisations.
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Australia Hardware Startups We're bringing together anyone who interested in building a business in the world of physical products: from company boards to organic soap. The purpose of the group is to start to build the hardware startup community by: bringing people together, bringing in experts in the fields of hardware & form entrepreneurs who've done it before, and also to build a better picture of the hardware scene so we can all find the resources we need to make this happen. |
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Venture Cafe Sydney Our goal is to build an innovation community and to accelerate innovation within the regional ecosystem. The foundation does that by offering programming and connections that build relationships between students, startups, entrepreneurs, corporates, investors and other organisations. |
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North Sydney Innovation Network Promoting and enhancing the contribution of innovation-related businesses in the North Sydney region. |
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Hardware Massive Hardware Massive is the leading global community for hardware innovators, industry leaders, service providers, and investors. Made in Berkeley, California. Chapters in each city. |
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Startup AUS StartupAus is a not for profit organisation with a vision to make Australia one of the best places in the world to build a tech startup. |
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Australian Venture Consortium The majority (well over 80%) of government and private investment into innovation in Australia is for facilities in the capital city CBDs and for Universities. As of May 2019, there are hundreds of accelerators, venture hubs and incubators operating in REGIONAL areas including suburbs of the capital cities. Currently all these entities formulate their own specific narrative and individually work to convince the 3 levels of government and prospective sponsors of their value to their community. The Australian Venture Consortium (AVC) has been formed to act as an influential voice delivering a consistent and compelling narrative on behalf of the REGIONAL innovation industry. |
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Sydney Hardware Startup Meetup A place for those interested in hardware and deep tech startups in Sydney to get together, hear some great speakers and network. |
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Startup Catalyst We take groups of youths, startups, investors, corporates, and innovation leaders to international startup hotspots including Silicon Valley, Europe, Israel, and Asia with the goal of transforming the startup and innovation landscape in Australia. |
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Industry Capability Network Industry Capability Network (ICN) is a business network that introduces Australian and New Zealand companies to projects large and small. We offer a new business source for suppliers and a sophisticated search service for project managers. |
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Australian Research & Space Exploration Learn more about Australian Research & Scientific Exploration. ARSE is the joker in the pack of innovation in space exploration down-under. Our Mission: To advance humanity further through space exploration, development, research and advocacy. Our Vision: our long-term plan is to support the development & implementation of advanced space technologies, growing our local space industry. Ultimately, we aim to work towards an advanced civilisation inhabiting and exploring the universe. Our Position: We believe Australia is in a unique position to capitalise & invest in space exploration. |
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Sydney Aerospace and Defence Interest Group To identify new strategic opportunities which can only be tackled on a collaborative basis, and to provide feedback to industry members and other stakeholders, including State and Commonwealth Governments, on the make-up and health of the Aerospace and Defence Industry sectors; to identify key factors and trends affecting it and to help facilitate industry access to available Government support and services. |
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NSW Defense innovation Network The Defence Innovation Network (DIN) is an association of seven leading universities in NSW. The purpose of the DIN is to bring together NSW industry, universities, State Government and DST Group to address Australia’s defence needs. |
Mentors
Mentor and expertise networks and groups.
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The Wade Institute is a leading centre for entrepreneurial training. We deliver immersive education programs to accelerate learning, creation & connection. We support people to go further, faster. To learn from experts in a deeply focused environment committed to outcomes. To fail safely, with continuous feedback loops and guidance to test and iterate ideas. To find their people and get support from a powerful network of inspired and inspiring creators and industry leaders. The complete toolkit. |
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Ryde Council Business Mastermind Applying the 3 Hat Model to your Medium Sized Business. |
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Sydney Hardware Start-up Meet-up A place for those interested in hardware and deep tech startups in Sydney to get together, hear some great speakers and network. |
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Industry Mentoring Network In STEM an award-winning industry-led initiative of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering. IMNIS connects motivated PhD students (mentees) in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) with outstanding high level industry leaders (mentors) in a one year industry mentoring program. |
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Medical Device Partnering Program (MDPP) is an ideas incubator. We foster collaborations between researchers, industry, end-users and government and develop medical technologies with global market potential. |
Legal
Lawyers specialising in startups, scale ups and IP law.
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LegalVision is a commercial law firm with a commitment to innovation. We bring together lawyers and technologists to deliver efficient and cost-effective legal solutions for SMEs, startups and corporates. |
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Progressive Legal New Law For Growing Australian Small Business. After helping over 2,000 growing small businesses over the past 4 years, we quickly realised that legal advice and protection ends up at the bottom of your pile, until it’s too late. Most people would prefer to go to the dentist than see a lawyer. We’re changing that for you! |
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FB Rice Patent & Trade Mark Attorneys. FB Rice has a network of trusted advisors in all key jurisdictions. We turn to those advisors when assisting our clients to promote their interests. |
Advice
General advice (not specific legal or accounting advice).
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Trade Marks in Australia A trade mark is a sign used to distinguish one trader’s goods and services from those of other traders. A trade mark can be a letter, number, word, business name, phrase, sound, smell, shape, logo, picture and/or aspect of packaging. A registered trade mark is legally enforceable. Here's how to register one in Australia and Internationally. |
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Startup Manual: A Legal Handbook for Founders Having your legal structure and agreements in order may be the furthest thing from your mind when starting out on the road to greatness. Having the right legal foundation in place won’t make you succeed, but it will prevent you from failing when things start to go right. Learn how raising money for startups should be done. |
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Venture Debt: A Legal Handbook For Founders Most startups are cash hungry. Although a small number of startups do grow without raising external capital, they are few and far between. There are two main types of capital a company can raise: debt and equity. Most startup raise equity and founders dilute their stake as a consequence. However, there are circumstances where borrowing money can make a lot of sense for a startup. That type of debt is known as 'venture debt'. This Handbook is designed to provide startup founders with the information they need to determine whether raising venture debt makes sense for them. The handbook is published by LegalVision, a commercial law firm with a commitment to innovation. |
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Venture Capital in the Innovation Economy the history of venture capital establishes four statistical regularities: (1) The skew in VC returns is huge; (2) the returns generated by specific VC firms is persistent; (3) VC returns track the public equity markets; (4) VCs have been successful only in a limited set of sectors: IT and Biotech. The innovation economy is a world where progress is made by trial and error and depends on access to funding not concerned with immediately visible economic value. Two sources have played decisive roles historically: mission-driven governments and financial speculation generating occasional "productive bubbles". See the deck. Read the Book. |
People
Human resources and people skills networks.
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ManTech is a specialist recruitment agency building genuinely stimulating and rewarding careers in the IT and Technology industries. |
Industry
Industry and other groups in support of the mission.
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Industry Growth Centres Through an industry-led process the Industry Growth Centres Initiative aims to drive innovation, productivity and competitiveness. The government is funding six Growth Centres in sectors of competitive strength and strategic priority. |
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AIRG is an industry led Association that supports the innovation and R&D initiatives of its members by increasing collaboration opportunities, facilitating peer-to-peer mentoring, i.e. companies learning from companies; building linkages to enable cross-sector learning, and providing access to international best practice for effective management of research and development and innovation. |
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Industry Capability Network Industry Capability Network (ICN) is a business network that introduces Australian and New Zealand companies to projects large and small. We offer a new business source for suppliers and a sophisticated search service for project managers. |
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AMGC One of the Industry Growth Centers, the purpose of AMGC is to transform Australian Manufacturing to be more globally competitive and generate the demand for jobs. |
Manufacture
Local CDM/CEM and other local manufacturers relevant to hardware start-ups.
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Online Laser Cutting provide professional, high quality, Laser Cutting Services for Businesses, Designers, Makers, Hobbyists, Entrepreneurs and everyone in between. We know how important it is to produce your job to the highest standard and our 10 year experience working with laser cutters means that even the most detailed job will turn out better than you could have imagined. Fast shipping Australia Wide! |
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Wavetronics specialises in providing quality Electronic Manufacturing Services (EMS) for the electronics industry. Proudly manufacturing in Riverwood NSW in Australia, we operate five fully certified, contemporary manufacturing facilities. These facilities cater for all sizes of contract electronic manufacturing runs and various supply solutions. |
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Interfab is a privately owned Australian, precision sheetmetal manufacturing company established in 1981. Our advanced manufacturing platform is supported by Solidworks to program the sheetmetal cutting and folding requirements and our MRP Bill of Material (BOM) structure designed specifically for our manufacturing industry. Processes include CNC Lasers and Laser/Punch, CNC Press Brakes, welding using Mig, Tig, Robotic or spot welding. Most work pieces are powder coated and finally mechanical and electrical assembly of total turn-key solutions. Steve Zakaria <Steve@interfab.net> |
Services
Private businesses, SME and others providing relevant services to hardware start-ups.
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Techcreators From initial idea techcreators integrate creativity, commercial insight, world-class development techniques and technical experience to guide your product to production. With innovation at our core and a passion for great ideas we work in collaboration with your team to incubate and create your hardware. With extensive experience in offshore manufacture we are able to meticulously manage every stage of your product's creation and delivery to market. |
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Ingenuity Design We are a team of professionals, devoted to creating innovative human-centric products that establish brands, transform communities, and improve lives. Electronics Design, Embedded Software, Server Development, Industrial Design, System Design, App Development, UX Design, Certification, Manufacturing, Commercialisation. |
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BitScope Designs co-creates embedded systems, cloud/edge compute and IoT solutions for its clients with manufacture partners in Australia and China and export/distribution partners worldwide. |
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Tiller Design are specialists in product design and development. Our experience delivers genuine value and ensures success for your projects. |
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Visospace is working on the future of human-computer interaction. For spatial computing mediums (VR and AR) to emerge into ubiquity, the right user-interfaces need to be developed, just as the mouse and keyboard were for personal computers. |
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Wavetronics specialises in providing quality Electronic Manufacturing Services (EMS) for the electronics industry. Proudly manufacturing in Riverwood NSW in Australia, we operate five fully certified, contemporary manufacturing facilities. These facilities cater for all sizes of contract electronic manufacturing runs and various supply solutions. |
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Interfab is a privately owned Australian, precision sheetmetal manufacturing company established in 1981. Our advanced manufacturing platform is supported by Solidworks to program the sheetmetal cutting and folding requirements and our MRP Bill of Material (BOM) structure designed specifically for our manufacturing industry. Processes include CNC Lasers and Laser/Punch, CNC Press Brakes, welding using Mig, Tig, Robotic or spot welding. Most work pieces are powder coated and finally mechanical and electrical assembly of total turn-key solutions. Steve Zakaria <Steve@interfab.net> |
Vendors
Component, parts and equipment vendors.
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Farnell/AVnet operates as element14 across Asia Pacific. element14 is a high-service distributor of technology products, services and solutions for electronic system design, maintenance and repair. Global access, with service that’s close to home. |
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Altronics For over 40 years Altronics has been a valued supplier of quality electronic components & public address equipment. Offering 10000+ products, available from our Stores and online. |
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DigiKey World's Largest Selection of Electronic Components Available for Immediate Shipment! |
Memberships
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Google Group for shared email messaging for this project. The group email address is ecosystem@bitscope.com and the project home page is https://bitscope.com/ecosystem. The groups listed below this one are related but not managed by us. |
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Australian Innovation Community Leaders This is for those building the innovation ecosystem in Australia. We come from many positions - spaces and hubs, accelerators and hackathons, economic development organisations and chambers of commerce, universities and tafes, mentors and education programs, service providers and local businesses, governments and corporations, industry bodies and technology communities. |
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Australian Makers COVID-19 Response. Many makers, engineers and concerned citizens were activated to respond the global covid19 pandemic: there is a huge amount of chatter on DIY PPE; such as 3D printed face shields and face respirators. Many universities around the world are working on PPE, ventilator and sterilisation and disinfection initiatives. We wanted to take a different, broader view and a more leverage - with the goal try to support, enable and reduce friction for those professional calibre teams researching, developing manufacturing and delivering PPE and ventilators. |
COVID-19 Response
Community
COVID-19 Ventilator Projects
An analyzed list of projects to make emergency ventilators in response to COVID-19, focusing on free-libre open source. PLEASE make pull requests or submit issues too add any project missing from this list. The comments are entirely my own (possibly not well-informed) opinions and are meant to be helpful to those looking for quick information, not to disparage any project.
Australian Makers COVID-19 Response
Many makers, engineers and concerned citizens were activated to respond the global covid19 pandemic: there is a huge amount of chatter on DIY PPE; such as 3D printed face shields and face respirators. Many universities around the world are working on PPE, ventilator and sterilisation and disinfection initiatives. We wanted to take a different, broader view and a more leverage - with the goal try to support, enable and reduce friction for those professional calibre teams researching, developing manufacturing and delivering PPE and ventilators.
Public Invention
We empower inventors, technologists, and students to publish, find, and collaborate on invention ideas through direct coaching, team formation, curation of work, publication, co-working and learning events, and, in some cases, material support.
Australian Innovation Community Leaders
This is for those building the innovation ecosystem in Australia. We come from many positions - spaces and hubs, accelerators and hackathons, economic development organisations and chambers of commerce, universities and tafes, mentors and education programs, service providers and local businesses, governments and corporations, industry bodies and technology communities.
Government
Federal Economic Response
The Government is acting decisively in the national interest to support households and businesses and address the significant economic consequences of the Coronavirus.
While the full economic effects from the virus remain uncertain, the outlook has deteriorated since the Government’s initial Economic Response announced on 12 March 2020.
The spread of the virus worldwide has broadened, and is expected to be more prolonged. Governments, both international and domestic, have announced stricter mitigation measures to slow the spread of the virus, which are having significant economic impacts.
On 30 March, the Government announced the $130 billion JobKeeper Payment to help keep Australians in jobs as we deal with the significant economic impact from the Coronavirus. This brings the Government’s total support for the economy to $320 billion across the forward estimates, representing 16.4 per cent of annual GDP.
JobKeeper Payment
The Government has announced a $130 billion JobKeeper payment to help keep more Australians in jobs and support businesses affected by the significant economic impact caused by the Coronavirus. Around 6 million workers will receive a fortnightly payment of $1,500 (before tax) through their employer. The payment ensures eligible employers remain connected to their workforce and will help businesses restart quickly when the crisis is over.
Register Here https://www.ato.gov.au/Job-keeper-payment
You will receive this message upon completion:
You've registered for updates on the JobKeeper payment. This program provides a wage subsidy for employers to support employees. You do not need to phone us. We will contact you as soon as more information is available. You only need to register once.
Other sources of information.
There are a few good articles in the press too:
ATO Support
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) will implement a series of administrative measures to assist Australians experiencing financial difficulty as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak. Commissioner of Taxation Chris Jordan is encouraging businesses impacted by the coronavirus to get in touch with the ATO to discuss relief options.
“We know that many businesses and communities are being heavily affected by the challenging economic conditions created by the outbreak of COVID-19,” he said. “The ATO will work shoulder-to-shoulder with businesses to assist them through this difficult period and do what we can to ease the pressure. “Once you contact us, we’ll tailor a support plan for your needs and circumstances. “Support measures could include deferral of some payments, quicker access to GST refunds, and options to enter low interest payment plans for existing or future tax debts.”
We understand this is a time of significant uncertainty and that we will need to be flexible in how we help businesses.
Options available to assist businesses impacted by COVID-19 include:
- Deferring by up to six months the payment date of amounts due through the business activity statement (including PAYG instalments), income tax assessments, fringe benefits tax assessments and excise
- Allow businesses on a quarterly reporting cycle to opt into monthly GST reporting in order to get quicker access to GST refunds they may be entitled to
- Allowing businesses to vary Pay As You Go (PAYG) instalment amounts to zero for the March 2020 quarter. Businesses that vary their PAYG instalment to zero can also claim a refund for any instalments made for the September 2019 and December 2019 quarters
- Remitting any interest and penalties, incurred on or after 23 January 2020, that have been applied to tax liabilities
- Working with affected businesses to help them pay their existing and ongoing tax liabilities by allowing them to enter into low interest payment plans.
- Employers will still need to meet their ongoing super guarantee obligations for their employees.
To make it easier for people to apply for relief we will be increasing our presence in the areas of highest impact. A temporary shopfront with staff specialising in assisting small business will be established in Cairns within the next few weeks. In addition, we will consider ways to enhance our presence in other significantly affected regions, making it easier for people to apply for relief. Additional temporary shopfronts and face-to-face options are currently under consideration.
We will also continue to work with the tax profession, other government agencies and local organisations to make sure other impacted communities are also supported during this time. We will ensure our services are tailored to the needs of the community and will work with taxpayers and their tax agents to tailor support to their individual circumstances.
Outside of business, the ATO will also work with individuals experiencing financial hardship, and their tax agents, and will apply appropriate tax relief measures for serious and exceptional circumstances, such as where people cannot pay for food or accommodation.
Unlike the bushfire relief measures, which applied automatically to particular geographic areas, assistance measures for those impacted by COVID-19 will not be automatically implemented.
Anyone impacted by COVID-19 is advised to contact the ATO to request assistance on our Emergency Support Infoline 1800 806 218, when they are ready, to discuss their situation.
Prime Ministerial Updates
Information for Business
Coronavirus information and support for business Find financial assistance, eligibility and timing for the new government support for Australian businesses. We'll be updating this page as new information is available.
Directors Liability
aicd.companydirectors.com.au/covid-19
The Federal Government announced on Sunday that directors would be exempt from personal liability for trading while insolvent for six months as part of its response to COVID-19. This is welcome news for the AICD community with many organisations likely to face unprecedented disruption in coming months. This will give directors more confidence to trade through this crisis rather than place a business into administration, with the costs and job losses that entails.
Importantly, even though not personally liable for debts incurred, directors will still need to manage their general duties including to act in the best interest of the corporation and with due care and diligence, during these extremely trying times. These duties can change in nature during situations of insolvency, with the rights of creditors needing to be factored into board decision-making. Further discussion of directors’ duties in light of the Government announcement is available here.
Separately the Government intends to grant the Treasurer powers to exempt companies from Corporations Act requirements during these times, including with respect to the holding of physical annual general meetings.
The AICD has made its webinar Turnaround Fundamentals available free to members as a resource for navigating the months ahead.
NSW Response
revenue.nsw.gov.au/covid-19-tax-relief-measures
The NSW Government has announced tax relief measures as part of its economic package to help businesses impacted by COVID-19. Payroll tax Waivers and deferral arrangements have been announced to provide relief for payroll tax customers. Read more information on these initiatives and the increase to the 2020/21 payroll tax threshold. Gaming machine tax Clubs and hotels will have their gaming machine tax payments deferred from March 2020 until 1 September 2020. More information on payment arrangements will be provided soon. Parking space levy payments will be deferred until 30 September 2020. More information on payment arrangements will be provided soon. Lotteries and Keno payments will be deferred from 1 April 2020 to 30 September 2020. More information on payment arrangements will be provided soon.
City of Sydney
Covid-19: Support for business
The Covid-19 pandemic adversely impacts businesses of every size within the City of Sydney area. We have provided a package of measures worth $25m to support businesses and reduce the financial impact of Covid-19. These measures will be in place for an initial six months.
We will:
- waive fees for Health and Building compliance activities (expected revenue loss of $1.6m)
- review rents in City of Sydney premises for tenants that require support case-by-case and in consultation with these tenants (expected cost up to a value of $4m)
- waive our standard contractual terms and return booking and banner fees to people and organisations who have booked our venues and are now unable to proceed with their bookings (expected cost up to a value of $3m)
- waive footway dining, market permit and filming fees on the grounds of hardship (expected revenue loss of $1.5m)
- provide a flexible approach to parking and other infringements (expected revenue loss of $10-15m).
We will work with our major business partners and contractors on whether services can continue in their current form and support them to maintain long-term business continuity. The financial support above adds to policy changes we have put in place. These policy changes include:
- support businesses that need to expand their outdoor dining areas and increase or introduce take away food options to allow for social distancing
- only take enforcement action for matters that present an imminent public, environmental, health or safety risk
- allow supermarkets and other stores to operate their loading docks 24 hours a day to deliver essential goods.
We are developing a second stage support package, targeting those in small business and the creative, arts and entertainment industries. Staff will continue to work with the state and federal governments to ensure communities receive the financial relief that is needed.
Home Affairs
COVID-19 and the border: Updates to Australia's immigration and border arrangements during the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) outbreak.
AusTrade
Austrade is open for business and our network of 1,100 staff is committed to helping you through this time. As part of ‘Team Australia’, Austrade is working closely with the network of government departments and industry agencies to help Australian businesses overcome complex and fast-evolving COVID-19–related challenges. This site provides updates on markets and logistics, and links through to the Government’s extensive business support programs.
CSIRO
We are involved in key research in the rapid global response to the novel coronavirus outbreak. The work builds on our strong history protecting people in Australia and around the world from the threat of infectious diseases.
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