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Six manufacturers share $3.7 million in grants from the AMGC Commercialisation Fund; Alcolizer receives $742,363 for a rapid Covid-19 test, having earlier won a $150,000 IMCRC grant.
First grants under the federal Supply Chain Capability Improvement program go to three NSW space companies for edge computing and inertial navigation projects, within the Moon to Mars initiative.
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Queensland rocket firm launches first rocket using Australian-made solid fuel, developed with partial backing from the Advanced Manufacturing Growth Centre, drawing praise from industry figures and the industry minister.
Nineteen listed companies received federal BRII feasibility-study grants totalling $2.27 million across five government agency challenge themes, including turning farm crops into renewable hydrogen.
The federal government's Boosting Female Founders Initiative has granted $12 million to 51 women-led startups, with Indigital and Ovira among the larger recipients named.
The federal government's Boosting Female Founders Initiative announced first-round grants totalling $12 million, with named recipients including Beam Australia, Indigital, Whole Kids and Verve Superannuation.
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Canberra's Accelerating Commercialisation scheme hands out eight million dollars in grants, with manufacturers Hypersonix, Sicona Battery Technologies, Ker Ker and Microbio among fourteen recipients developing new technologies.
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Melbourne manufacturer Ojas Group wins a $3 million federal CRC-P grant to launch Elecsome, a solar panel upcycling venture developed with RMIT and the University of Melbourne.
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Crikey examines how former minister Christopher Pyne's 'strategic advice' to space firm Saber Astronautics avoids lobbying rules, after Saber received seven million dollars in government grants.
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Canberra grants Major Project Status to Sun Cable's planned Australia-Singapore electricity link; the article also recalls an oversubscribed roughly $50 million capital raise backed by Forrest and Cannon-Brookes.
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Australian government grants totalling $11 million go to space sector startups and universities, including a near-$4 million CubeSat mission, as part of a wider plan to triple the sector's value by 2030.
Two Perth facilities receive federal Space Infrastructure Fund grants: Pawsey gets $1.5 million for a space data analysis facility and Fugro $4.5 million for a robotics command complex.
Ten Australian space projects, from universities and startups, share eleven million dollars in Australian government grants for work including CubeSats, spacesuits and astronaut training simulations.
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Four manufacturers have won government grants to expand local production of masks, gowns and plastic protective equipment, with the industry minister saying the funding addresses shortcomings revealed by the pandemic.
Saber Astronautics wins federal and South Australian government funding to build a space mission control centre in Adelaide, housing facilities for businesses and researchers and linking live to the International Space Station.
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Adelaide confectioner Robern Menz has received a $1 million federal grant from the Manufacturing Modernisation Fund toward a $5 million factory refit to relaunch the Polly Waffle, among wider government grants.
Canberra will buy ventilators built by a Grey Innovation-led consortium, while Victoria has granted the group half a million dollars toward local manufacturing during the pandemic.
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A $131 million Cooperative Research Centre applying manufacturing techniques to construction has won federal support, with $28 million in government funding announced and industry partners contributing the remainder.
Two Australian incubators, Social Impact Hub and Maker & Co Collective, have received federal grants under the Incubator Support initiative, which has distributed $23 million since 2016, according to industry minister Karen Andrews.
Seventeen cybersecurity projects share the final round of the federal government's AustCyber Projects Fund, with details released for thirteen recipients and their matched industry funding.
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Nine companies share $4.7 million in federal Accelerating Commercialisation grants for January 2020, funding projects from sports protection to neonatal catheter placement. Navi Medical's NeoNav device grew out of a University of Melbourne program.
Rocket maker Gilmour Space and the national space agency signed a strategic cooperation statement at the company's new Gold Coast facility, with the industry minister attending, as the firm targets commercial launch flights by 2022.
Seven Australian businesses share 2.8 million dollars in the latest round of a government commercialisation grant program, with four recipients named, including smart livestock ear tags and on-farm WiFi for mobile blackspots.
Australia's federal government has announced Round 4 Global Connections Fund Bridging Grants worth $1.6 million, backing 14 small businesses and 20 researchers on international commercialisation projects, though no individual recipients are named.
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Canberra announces a $25 million grant for a new Perth-based battery research centre, with state and private contributions flagged but not yet committed.
Fifteen businesses received a combined 5.3 million dollars in Accelerating Commercialisation grants, including AJJA Technologies, Traditional Business Online and Deakin University, with minister Karen Andrews highlighting competitiveness benefits.
The industry minister announced Biomedical Translation Fund backing: Brandon Capital invested $20 million in Respirion, OneVentures $4 million in Madorra, and $17.2 million went to an unnamed anti-fibrosis drug company.
A manufacturing industry body has been awarded government money under a federal export program to set up a Melbourne hub helping small firms develop export strategies and reach global markets.