Partnerships
The Smart State Strategy will ensure new ideas and innovations are designed to solve the most difficult challenges our state and our industries will face in the future.
It’s about creating new collaborations across education, research and industry, sharing information, and ensuring new innovations are applied and commercialised for the benefit of all Queenslanders.
We’re developing partnerships and harnessing knowledge and innovation to address our future challenges. Sixty million dollars in new funding will support national and international research projects between researchers, industry, the community and government to find innovative solutions to real-world problems.
We’re connecting new ideas with early stage finance. This funding includes a new $4 million Proof-of-Concept Fund, which will help address funding gaps in public sector research commercialisation.
We’re linking industry and research to find solutions. Two million dollars will be provided for research and ideas development between researchers and industry, with a focus on Queensland’s regions.
We’re making our smart industries bigger. Support for early stage, knowledge-intensive firms to grow and commercialise their ideas will be delivered through the Ideas to Market initiative.
We’re making our big industries smarter. The Enabling Technologies program will support continued growth in our emerging, knowledge-intensive industries such as information and communication technology (ICT), biotechnology, nanotechnology and creative industries, and their application to our traditional industries such as mining and agriculture.
Last reviewed 21 May 2008
