Small business
We are providing opportunities for small businesses to collaborate and build on their innovation and ideas, to help them grow and improve products and services, and compete in a global market.
Business Development Fund
Helps to turn ideas into reality with co-investment in Queensland businesses at the forefront of commercialising ground-breaking research or innovations.
Business Grants and Assistance Finder
Quickly identify government grants, assistance and support for your business with the Business Grants and Assistance service.
Business Growth Fund Program
Provides targeted assistance for small and medium businesses that demonstrate high-growth and employment aspirations.
Testing Within Government
Supports Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to improve the positioning of their ICT products to address business problems, while collaborating with the Queensland Government.
Accelerate Small Business Grants
The Queensland Government allocated $3 million in grant funding over 3 years to established Queensland-based small businesses to engage business mentors, coaches, specialist consultants or an advisory board, for a 6 to 12 month period.
Advancing Regional Innovation Program
Encourages innovation across Queensland and supports local economies to create jobs for regional Queenslanders.
Advancing Small Business Queensland Strategy
Positions Queensland as the place for small businesses to start, grow and employ.
Engaging Science Grants
Supports science engagement and communication projects, events and activities that increase the reach and impact of science in Queensland.
Ignite Ideas Fund
Supports startups and small to medium Queensland businesses to commercialise market ready innovative ideas that will help them grow and compete in a global market and create new jobs.
Industry Accelerator Program
Offers programs to help high growth small and medium sized enterprises and potential startups fast track ideas from concept to commercialisation, positioning participants to successfully market their products and services to leading edge customers.
Innovate Queensland
Innovate Queensland helps small to medium enterprises grow through workshops and webinars on innovation, technology commercialisation, innovation planning and research, and design.
Knowledge Transfer Partnerships program
Builds collaboration between universities and small business by bringing on a university graduate to work on an innovative project.
Mentoring for Growth
Providing access to business experts to support businesses in achieving their growth and innovation vision.
Natural Disaster Recovery Grants
Grants are available to assist your small business pay for costs arising out of direct damage caused by Servery Tropical Cyclone Debbie and associated rainfall and flooding.
Platform Technology Program
Provides financial incentives to larger scale co-funded projects that accelerate the development and deployment of significant and highly collaborative industry based platform technology projects.
Small Business Digital Grants Program
Helps businesses build their digital capability and grow, assisting with the purchase of hardware, software or digital training and skills development.
Small Business Entrepreneur Grants
Helping newly started businesses to access professional advice and support up to $5,000 in matched funding.
Small Business Innovation Research
Supports innovators to develop and test new, commercially viable solutions to complex Queensland Government challenges.
Sport Science Challenge
Supports the development of new products, technology or processes that benefit sporting performance and participation in sport.