CSIRO opens applications for upcoming Innovate to Grow: Critical Minerals course

CSIRO is inviting applications for the upcoming round of its free eight-week Innovate to Grow program for startups and SMEs, to be focussed on critical minerals. According to a statement from CSIRO on Monday, the online course will offer help with companies’ “innovative ideas”, new R&D opportunities, and refinement of concepts to “better position themselves…

Applications opened for CSIRO’s Innovate to Grow, Health Care Innovation

Applications have opened for CSIRO’s free, eight-week Innovate to Grow program for SMEs, with the upcoming round focussing on health care solutions. The online course offers practical guidance and tools on identifying and refining R&D opportunities, creating R&D business cases, and accessing funding. The first workshop will take place on August 7 and applications are…

Queensland manufacturers get R&D boost from CSIRO

Manufacturing innovation in Queensland is set for a significant boost with CSIRO rolling out a free training program for small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The eight-week “Innovate to Grow: Queensland” program is designed to transform bright ideas into research-ready projects, with a special focus on regional businesses. The program, part of the Queensland Government’s Regional…

Applications open for CSIRO’s free Innovate to Grow: Recycling and Circular Economy SME program

Applications have opened for the latest cohort of SMEs working in the recycling and circular economy sectors through CSIRO’s free Innovate to Grow program. The eight-week, purely online program will be run with Deakin University’s Recycling and Clean Energy Commercialisation Hub (REACH), which is funded through the federal government’s Trailblazer program. According to a statement…

Towards 3% R&D, research for a decarbonised future – by Stephanie Moscovis

Ahead of @AuManufacturing and BDO’s webinar Towards 3% R&D – Where to from here? on 19 September (information and sign up here) Stephanie Moscovis looks at Australia’s Trailblazer programme that is derisking research into decarbonising the economy. Research and development (R&D) is not just a process; it is the secret sauce of innovation, the driving…