CSIRO Kick-Start

Description

CSIRO Kick-Start provides matched funding for start-ups and small to medium enterprises to help access CSIRO's research expertise and capabilities to help grow your business. CSIRO's Kick-Start program helps start-ups and small businesses overcome some of these barriers to pursue R&D activities, by providing an end-to-end facilitation service, including: - help with articulating your research question - connecting businesses with relevant CSIRO researcher expertise and capability - think of us as you in-house R&D division - matched funding support to improve the affordability or expand the scope of R&D services.

Eligibility

To be eligible, you must: - have an Australian company number (ACN) - be registered for goods and services tax (GST) - have your primary place of business within Australia - demonstrate the ability to dollar-match the funding - have an annual turnover of less than $10 million, in the current and each of the 2 previous financial years, or - have been a registered company for less than 3 years Eligibility criteria also apply to the proposed project.

Location

Australia

Amount

Matching $10,000 - $50,000 AUD

Deadline

Rolling basis

Decision Support

Medium signal

Australian matched-funding program ($10K–$50K) to partner startups/SMEs with CSIRO experts for early R&D and prototype work.

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