Industry
We are positioning Queensland as a place for industry to collaborate with entrepreneurs, universities, businesses and government to turn great ideas into commercial products and jobs creation.
Our Advance Queensland programs and funds are listed below to help you find the support your need.
You can also view Queensland Government and Australian Government support options.
Industry Research Projects
Supporting opportunities for researchers and industry to translate research outcomes into commercialisation opportunities for innovative services and products.
Engaging Science Grants
Supports events, activities and projects including citizen science projects that increase public participation in science.
Female Founders Co-Investment Fund
Female Founders Co-Investment funding is available to innovative female founded businesses undertaking a new pre-seed or seed capital raise.
Regional Futures – Collaborative Projects
Creating collaborations across regional Queensland and using innovation to solve challenges.
Ignite Ideas Fund
Ignite Ideas funding is available to commercialise highly innovative and new products or services that are at minimum viable product stage or beyond.
Accelerating Female Founders Program
Accelerating Female Founders funding is available to eligible organisations to develop and deliver new or existing business support initiatives to Queensland female founders with innovative businesses.
Agtech and Logistics Hub in Toowoomba
Transforming Queensland’s agricultural sector by facilitating connections, collaboration, partnerships and opportunities to solve industry’s biggest challenges.
Corporate Innovation Network
Queensland has an ecosystem of innovative businesses that are using emerging technologies such as immersive realities, artificial intelligence, robotics, autonomous systems and blockchain, and have the capabilities to work with Queensland corporates.
Female Founders Advisory Board Program
Delivering skills and exposure to effectively engage with advisors and establish best practice governance and advisory foundations to support business growth.
Private Sector Pathways Program
The Private Sector Pathways Program aims to solve corporate challenges with solutions generated by proven innovative Queensland small to medium enterprises (SMEs) and Scaleups.
Queensland Connects
Bringing together key innovation ecosystem leaders to solve a regional challenge or unlock a key sectoral or regional opportunity that will help connect and grow the sector or region.
Queensland Future Skills Partnership
Register your interest to learn new skills to keep up with automation and technology advances in the Queensland resources sector.
Queensland Innovation Precincts and Places Fund
The $4 million Strategic Initiatives Program is part of the $15 million Queensland Innovation Precincts and Places (QIPP) Fund. Funding is available to eligible organisations to support coordination and collaboration in the innovation economy and accelerate the development of innovation places.
Queensland Innovation Precincts and Places Fund - Innovation Place Leaders Network
Queensland’s innovation places leaders will work together to develop a framework and tools to deliver and embed a sustainable Innovation Place Leaders Network
Queensland Innovation Precincts and Places Fund Regional Precincts and Places Infrastructure and Technology Program
Supporting regional innovation precincts and places to increase their capability to support long term economic growth and jobs for Queensland through smart infrastructure and technology upgrades
Queensland Women in STEM Prize
Showcasing inspiring women working in science, technology, engineering, and maths (STEM), whose practice benefits Queenslanders.
weavr. threads a community for change
An innovative Queensland management system is helping businesses walk the talk of Reconciliation.