800 applications thrown out because of commercialisation cut


Joseph Brookes
Senior Reporter

About 800 applications to the flagship university research commercialisation program were discarded as a result of the surprise $800 million Budget cut to Australia’s Economic Accelerator program, while a complementary funding stream for ‘Trailblazer’ institutions will also run dry within weeks.

The abrupt university research funding cliff coupled with similar cuts to an industry commercialisation program has disrupted in-flight work and created a looming gap in grant funding at a …

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