Grants in Manufacturing

The Manufacturing Translation Stream provides businesses with funding to support projects that translate high quality research into commercial outcomes and support businesses to scale-up and be more competitive and resilient. It provides co-funding to support businesses to adopt new technologies and improve their manufacturing processes to boost productivity and competitiveness.

The Breakthrough Victoria Fund - Catalyst for Change investment stream addresses the funding gap between a minimum viable product and meeting market need. It invests in commercial entities that have demonstrated some early market traction and have tested market need and alignment.

The Breakthrough Victoria Fund - Creating the Pipeline investment stream will invest in businesses or entities with early-stage ideas for the development of prototypes, proof-of-concept trials, market validation and creation of minimum viable products. It will help bridge the critical funding and knowledge gaps between ideas and their commercialisation.

The Breakthrough Victoria Fund - Foundational Technology & Platform Projects investment stream will invest in enabling technologies, research platforms and infrastructure with cross-sector application to provide a springboard for start-ups and scale-ups in emerging industries.

The Breakthrough Victoria Fund - Catalyst for Growth investment stream will ensure that the capability and experience generated from an expanding (in revenue and market) entity will remain in Victoria to uplift other aspiring businesses and innovators, including development of a skilled workforce, increased commercialisation experience, and access to mentors. Ensuring the majority of operations remain in Victoria will generate significant jobs and local economic benefit.

Growth Grants are small grants to help you to engage external expertise to help you implement the recommendations in your roadmap or plan.

The Manufacturing Collaboration Stream provides funding for a small number of large, transformational projects. Projects that will either directly feature collaboration or will create and facilitate collaborative ecosystems.

The $107 million Supply Chain Resilience Initiative (SCRI) that was established to be part of the Australian Government’s $1.5 billion Modern Manufacturing Strategy. This grant aims to strengthen Australia’s ability to access critical products and inputs, better enabling us to respond to future supply chain disruptions.

The $30 million Commercialisation Fund aims to provide grants to Australian companies to help in commercialising new processes and products based upon new or existing IP for projects with a maximum project period of two years.