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By June 13, 2010

To be eligible for the Australian Government Early Stage Commercialisation Repayable Grants, applicants must have ownership, access to, or the beneficial use of any intellectual property necessary to carry out and/or commercialise the project being funded by Commercialisation Australia. Grants are available to undertake activities focusing on enabling a new ...

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By June 9, 2010

The Textile, Clothing and Footwear Strategic Capability Program (TCF SCP) offers grants to businesses that will boost innovative capability and help provide growth in these industries. The minimum grant size is $250 000 and funding must be matched on a dollar for dollar basis.   Round 1 of the TCF SCP ...

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By May 16, 2010

The Australian Government’s “Commercialisation Australia – Proof Of Concept Grant” offers grants of between $50,000 and $250,000 to assist eligible businesses with turnovers under $10M to test the commercial viability of the business model or idea for a product, process or service. For grant percentages up to 50% of the ...

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By April 16, 2010

The Australian Government’s Commercialisation Australia – Experienced Executive program offers significant assistance to a small medium enterprise which has the ownership, access to, or beneficial use, of any intellectual property necessary to carry out and/or commercialise the product, process or service, for the employment of experienced executives. A successful applicant ...

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By April 7, 2010

Do you hire independent contractors in your business?  Sometimes a person’s status as an independent contractor or employee just isn’t clear cut. Before entering into a contract, it’s important that you understand the differences between employees and independent contractors. The Tax Office have released a handy little online tool to ...

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By March 8, 2010

The Australian Government Enterprise Connect Program provides support to eligible SMEs, including business reviews conducted by an Enterprise Connect Business Advisor. For eligible businesses there is no charge for this review which can take up to 3 days. If the business is admitted to the Enterprise Connect Program, the Government ...

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By March 1, 2010

Are you a small business and want to help your employees by introducing or improving your family friendly work arrangements? Did you know that there are grants available of up to $15,000? It seems only yesterday I was posting a snippet about this program after its launch, and here we are ...

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