Detailed Report: Australian Entrepreneurs' Programme Overview

This report provides an overview of the Australian Entrepreneurs' Programme, designed to assist businesses in improving their growth capabilities, fostering innovation, and encouraging commercialization. The programme offers business advice, facilitation services, and various grants including Business Growth Grants, Accelerating Commercialisation, and Incubator Support. It also includes Innovation Connections, which helps businesses identify knowledge gaps and research needs. The programme has a national network of skilled business advisors and facilitators, offering learning events, customer stories, and programme guidelines. The Entrepreneurs' Programme aims to support businesses across various sectors by providing access to expert guidance, funding, and resources to enhance their competitiveness and achieve sustainable growth. This report details the different facets of the programme, including business evaluation, supply chain facilitation, growth services, and tourism partnerships.

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Grants and Programs
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Entrepreneurs' Programme
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The Entrepreneurs’ Programme is helping Australian businesses to improve their growth
capabilities and networks, engage with researchers, foster innovation and encourage
commercialisation of novel products, processes or services. Watch this video to learn
how the Programme can help you.
Business Management
Business Management consists of 2 elements. Business advice and facilitation services to small
and medium business to help build capacity, improve capability, extend networks and take
advantage of growth opportunities in Australian and/or markets in other countries. Business
growth grants assist you to implement recommendations.
GRANTS & PROGRAMS
Business Evaluation
Get an evaluation of your business and learn how to increase your
trade capability.
Entrepreneurs' Programme
Access expert advice, funding and incentives to help your business innovate, compete and grow. The Entrepreneurs' Programme can help to improve
your growth capabilities and networks, engage with researchers, foster innovation and encourage commercialisation of novel products, processes or
services. Learn how the Programme can help your business.

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GRANTS & PROGRAMS
Supply Chain Facilitation
Learn how you can get help to improve your supply chain
performance.
GRANTS & PROGRAMS
Growth Services
Get access to a skilled adviser to take advantage of growth
opportunities.
GRANTS & PROGRAMS
Tourism Partnerships
Provided support to help tourism businesses collaborate and
increase regional visitors.
GRANTS & PROGRAMS
Business Growth Grants
Apply for a grant to action the recommendations from your Business
Management service.
Accelerating Commercialisation
Accelerating Commercialisation provides successful applicants access to expert guidance and
grants to find the right commercialisation solutions for novel products, processes and services.
GRANTS & PROGRAMS
Accelerating Commercialisation
Find out how to get expert advice and funding to commercialise your

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Find out how to get expert advice and funding to commercialise your
novel product, process or service.
Incubator Support
The Incubator Support initiative provides grant funding to incubators to deliver support services
to Australian start-ups with an international focus.
GRANTS & PROGRAMS
Incubator Support – New and Existing Incubators
Find out about funding for incubators to help start-ups develop
their capabilities.
GRANTS & PROGRAMS
Incubator Support – Expert in Residence
Find out about funding for incubators to get experts to help start-
ups.
Innovation Connections
Expert Innovation Facilitators work with your business to identify knowledge gaps that are
preventing your business growth. The outcome is an Innovation Facilitation Report.
GRANTS & PROGRAMS
Innovation Connections
Find out how to understand and fund your business's research needs.
Advisers and facilitators

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The Entrepreneurs' Programme has a national network of over 100 highly skilled business
advisers and facilitators.
Entrepreneurs' Programme advisers and facilitators
Find Entrepreneurs’ Programme business advisers and facilitators.
Commercialisation advisers
Discover the wealth of experience our commercialisation advisers bring
to your project.
Programme guidelines
Entrepreneurs' Programme - Programme guidelines
PDF · 1.00 MB
DOCX · 0.11 MB
Accelerating Commercialisation - Customer information guide
PDF · 0.46 MB
DOCX · 0.28 MB
Business Management - Grant opportunity guidelines
PDF · 0.58 MB
DOCX · 0.23 MB
Incubator Support - Program guidelines
PDF · 0.69 MB
DOCX · 0.47 MB
Innovation Connections - Customer information guide
PDF · 0.55 MB
DOCX · 0.41 MB
Learning events
Entrepreneurs' Programme learning events deliver targeted and tailored events and
activities to Australian businesses to address learning challenges and gaps, encourage
peer-to-peer networking, and facilitate a deeper engagement to embed skills and

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learnings.
Learning events are delivered through various learning modes such as:
Our events are held across the country in metro, regional and rural area. You can contact
the learning events team with any questions at [e-mail].
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Customer stories
Read about the ambitions and achievements of companies that are benefitting from
the Entrepreneurs' Programme.
Business Evaluation customer stories
Read about some of the companies that our Business Evaluation has
helped.
Growth Services success stories
Read about some of the companies that our Growth Services have
helped.
Supply Chain Facilitation customer stories
Learn more about the companies that our Supply Chain Facilitation
program has helped.
Accelerating Commercialisation customer stories
Read about some of the companies that Accelerating
Commercialisation helped to develop their products.
Innovation Connections customer stories
Discover how Innovation Connections helps businesses develop their
technologies.
single and multi-day workshops
masterclasses
exemplar business site visits
panel discussions and group mentoring
high-level introductory learning