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Dive into 2024 with our industry insights and key opportunities for your business!

Calling all business owners: We need your insights!

We're surveying business owners who've completed a research project with a university or research institution. Your insights will help shape future programs and support for businesses like yours. Please take 10 minutes to complete our survey.

Programs open to applications

Innovate to Grow: Agrifood WA

Applications open for Western Australian start-ups and SMEs innovating in agrifood. Applications close 17 March 2024.

Generation STEM Links

Generation STEM Links grants help NSW-based businesses increase technical know-how and secure new talent by supporting high-quality tertiary student internships facilitated by CSIRO. Over 80% of interns have been offered ongoing work by their host companies.

Exclusive workshop invitation: explore AI adoption

Join CSIRO and Melbourne Business School's exclusive 90-minute, online workshop designed to understand how AI is adopted in Australian businesses. Your input will help create a practical AI strategy toolkit. Complete the expression of interest form.

SMEs in the spotlight

Uluu scales up its seaweed alternative to plastics with Quiksilver collaboration

Perth biotech start-up and CSIRO Kick-Start alumni recently launched their first commercial product as a collaboration with surf brand, Quicksilver.

Taking a new insecticide from leaf to lab

CSIRO Kick-Start alumni, Bio-Gene Technology, has developed a new insecticide, Flavocide®. Flavocide® uses eucalypt to target agricultural insect pests and disease-spreading mosquitos, while promising to be safer for bees and other key beneficial insects.

Innovate to Grow program celebrates 500 participants

Innovate to Grow has transformed over 500 SMEs through the power of research and development.

Industry insights and events

Funding opportunities

The CSIRO SME team are here to help

  • If you have a program, event or funding opportunity of interest to our start-up and SME network, please email sme@csiro.au with your submission. 
  • Not sure where to start? Contact us. There’s a friendly facilitator who can help.