Tag: Entrepreneurs Programme

DISR restarts Entrepreneurs’ Program corruption inquiries

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The Industry department has reopened its investigation of a procurement scandal involving its defunct $484 million innovation program after the matter was passed back to it by federal police...

Compo costs racking up for botched innovation tender

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The Industry department has settled a dozen compensation claims related to the disastrous tender for its flagship innovation program and is bracing for more payouts amid allegations of corruption...

Industry department won’t look into procurement ‘bias’

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The Industry department has never checked the books of a supplier it awarded a $31 million commercialisation services contract to, despite an independent audit finding “bias” in the decision...

Govt offers industry groups $11m for IGP advice

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
Industry groups have just under two weeks to apply for a share of $10.8 million in grant funding to deliver advisory services to innovative small to medium-sized enterprises under...

Industry Growth Program appoints familiar new advisers

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
The federal government has appointed the first 17 advisers for its new Industry Growth Program, many of which delivered similar services under the Coalition’s Entrepreneurs Programme. Of the 17...

Advice, admin for Industry Growth Program to swallow $105m

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Advice and admin costs will swallow more than 25 per cent of the Industry Growth Program’s $392 million budget, leaving $105 million less in funding for early-stage commercialisation grants....