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Advanced Manufacturing IMCRC

CRC program stands alone in federal industry support

The Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) program has assumed even greater importance to the future of manufacturing with the likely demise of the growth centres initiative, though the CRCs too...

Making sense of industry research collaboration

2 November 2020 | by Alan Dormer

The Australian government is spending an increasing proportion of its ‘research’ funding on collaborative programs including Cooperative Research Centres, Industry Transformation Research and Teaching Hubs, and Linkage grants. The...

Weird clean energy funding weirdness

11 March 2020 | by Denham Sadler

The federal government has provided funding to a clean energy research centre just days after it was revealed that funding had been cut for a similar project already operating...

Playing politics with CRC project grants

4 March 2020 | by Denham Sadler

Labor has accused the government of politicising the Cooperative Research Centres grants program after it was revealed the latest rounds’ recipients were selected late last year but are still...

$110M SmartSat CRC launched

15 April 2019 | by James Riley

A new $110 million smart satellites Cooperative Research Centre will be the “engine room” for the Australian space sector and help local companies take on the world, its CEO...

$40m Xmas bonus for CRC projects

15 January 2019 | by James Riley

More than $40 million worth of grants were delivered to 19 projects as part of the sixth round of the federal government’s Cooperative Research Centres Projects (CRC-P) grants program....

$29m funding for CRC projects

27 June 2017 | by Denham Sadler

The Federal Government has handed out nearly $29 million to a range of business-research collaborations as part of its Cooperative Research Centres Projects (CRC-P) program in the Commonwealth’s ongoing...