INNOVATION WITH INDUSTRY – Session 5 Innovation Connections Grants: Information & Networking 4.00 – 5.30pm Thursday 28 June 2018 Treehouse, Shortland Building, Callaghan Campus
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY We acknowledge and respect the Pambalong clan of the Awabakal people, traditional custodians of the land on which this campus of The University of Newcastle is situated and also acknowledge and pay respect to the other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nations from which our students, staff and community are drawn
MS JUDY ALEXANDER Associate Director Research Grants Research and Innovation Services, R& I Division The Grants Team can provides assistance to UON researchers w ith: Research Professional to find other sources of funding identifying and applying for grants and funding opportunities establishing successful grants and ensuring the smooth administration and management of research grants Pre-award/application enquires E: research-applications@newcastle.edu.au Post-award enquiries E: research-grants@newcastle.edu.au Research Services T: +61 2 4921 7733
MR DAVE FLEMING Innovation Connections Facilitator for the Newcastle, The Greater Hunter and Central Coast region of NSW. Role is to connect local companies with the technical expertise and state-of-the-art equipment available from publicly funded research organisations. These connections can then lead to collaborative R&D projects to help companies develop their commercial innovations with the support of the research organisation. Has spent the past 13 years working in a technology transfer and research business development role for the University of Newcastle through the R&D company Newcastle Innovation Ltd. Also has worked in the private sector, undertaking business development and business management roles for multinational and local companies.
Ausindustry’s Innovation Connections: Connecting SMEs and Publicly Funded Research Organisations Dave Fleming – Ausindustry Innovation Facilitator
Outline of my talk • My role and focus • The Innovation Connections Programme • Questions and contact
Facilitation service and my focus • CSIRO works in partnership with Ausindustry to deliver the federally funded Innovation Connections Programme. My role has two key functions for this region: • Promote and manage the Ausindustry Innovation Connections service to Small to Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) • Assist researchers to connect with local and national SMEs for R&D collaboration
Landscape of Government Assistance Programs for companies Federal NSW State • R&D Tax Incentive Start-ups • Entrepreneurs’ Programme: • Business Management • Minimal Viable Product (MVP) • Innovation • Techvouchers • Collaborative Solutions Connections • Jobs Action Plan • Accelerating • Jobs for NSW Commercialisation Eligibility requirements: • Centre for Defence Industry Small and Capability Medium • Global Innovation Linkages • Sector • CRC- Projects Sized • Turnover • Industry Growth Centres Enterprises • Time of operation • Tradex • State of incorporation (SMEs) • Enhanced Project By-law • Other Scheme CSIRO • Certain Inputs to Manufacture • Australian Small Business • KickStart for SMEs Advisory Services • Venture Capital Programmes • CSIRO Innovation Fund • Emissions Reduction Fund – Main Sequence Larger • Other (National Innovation & enterprises Ventures Science Agenda) • Linkage Grants - ARC
Company Eligibility – Innovation Connections • Operating in one of the 5 Industry Growth Sectors , or in an enabling services and technologies sector: Medical Mining Equipment, Advanced Oil, Gas and Food and Technologies and Technology and Manufacturing Energy Resources Agribusiness Pharmaceuticals Services • Turnover or expenditure between $1.5 million and $100 million per annum under an ACN • Three years of operation • For-profit company (i.e. Pty Ltd) 10 | CSIRO SME Connect
Innovation Connections Programme – 2 parts • Innovation Connections Facilitation (free) – the focus is to help SMEs collaborate with the research sector to develop new ideas with commercial potential • Innovation Connections Grants (matching funding) - Provides 2 x $50k of matched funding for SME’s to engage with researchers and 1 x $30k funding for Graduate Placement (non-competitive and originally devised as a precursor to potential ARC linkage grant applications)
Grant Funding available under IC • Researcher Placement : utilise the expertise and resources of a researcher to work on an innovation project for you (up to $50,000 available to support an engagement); • Business Researcher Placement : funding to support salary costs for your employee(s) to work with a Publicly Funded Research Organisation on your innovation project (up to $50,000 available to support your employee(s) time on the project); • Graduate Placement : the employment of a graduate or post graduate into the Company to undertake a specific Innovation Connections project collaboratively with a Publicly Funded Research Organisation (up to a maximum of $30,000). 12 | CSIRO SME Connect
Innovation Connections – Key Points • Minimum of 1.5 days per week per researcher involved in the IC Project • Up to 3 researchers can be involved in any one project • Each Project (up to 2) has a maximum Ausindustry matched funding value of $50,000 • Each Project has a maximum time limit of 1 year • The grant is non-competitive and only requires company eligibility and project eligibility
Innovation Connections – Key Points • Grant application and approval is an easy, web-based process with minimal effort required from research organisations or the company in order to proceed (can take around 4 – 8 weeks to start a project) • Minimum legal review is required by the research organisation (UoN has a template agreement already approved) • IP arrangements are handled in a pragmatic way to assist both researchers and companies achieve what they need from the Project • End of project reporting is a simple templated two page “tick box” requirement for the researcher and the company to complete.
Innovation Connections – Eligible Costs Eligible Costs for the R&D project: • Direct salary costs and on-costs for an existing or new researcher • Student allowance • Travel (for specific project related travel only) • Facility Hire (including personnel to run the facility) • Research organisation overhead costs (up to a max of 30% of the total project cost)
University of Newcastle – Industry Engaged 16 | CSIRO SME Connect
Hunter Region Engagement with Innovation Connections Location of businesses approved for at least one IC Grant 17 | CSIRO SME Connect
Questions and contact Dave Fleming Innovation Facilitator • Dave Fleming Innovation Connections E dave.fleming@csiro.au M 0408 689430
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR CRAIG WHEELER School of Engineering Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment Research Expertise My principal research interests involve the transportation and handling of bulk materials using belt conveyor systems. The importance of belt conveying systems to the mining and minerals processing industries is immense. In a global sense, hundreds of billions of tonnes of bulk materials are transported by belt conveyors each year to transport bulk materials, such as coal, iron ore, bauxite and grain, over distances ranging from several metres to tens of kilometres. Stacker Conveyor Overland Conveyors Soma Power Station - Turkey Newcastle Coal Loader - Australia. Coal - 8.5 km Coal - 8000 t/hr
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