For any new business with a winning idea, or an established one investing in innovative avenues for growth, you need to move fast, while taking into account all compliance and financial milestones and optimisation opportunities for long-term, sustainable success.

Our Innovation Incentives team works with clients at the very outset of an idea through to making it a commercial reality. Government incentive programs, such as the Research & Development (R&D) Tax Incentive and other Federal and State run grant programs, are a key source of growth for a wide-range of businesses. We specialise in helping you tap into these funding mechanisms to facilitate greater investment in innovative projects and to assist you with commercialising your products and / or services domestically and overseas.

We are a national team of dedicated professionals with extensive experience navigating all aspects of the government funding and the current audit landscape. Using our unique IP-centric perspective and comprehensive approach, we unlock the most from your activities, while significantly reducing compliance risk associated with the process.

Our Innovation Incentives services

Research and Development (R&D) Tax Incentive

The R&D Tax Incentive is the Federal Government’s flagship program for incentivising innovation. We help business navigate and prepare robust R&D Tax Incentive claims with a focus on governance and leveraging intellectual assets.

Government grants

Our team works with clients to identify the best government and industry-focused programs to leverage their position, the preparation of formal funding applications and conduct the compliance reporting and monitoring required under many government programs.

Export Market Development Grant (EMDG)

The Export Market Development Grant (EMDG) program is the Federal Government’s cornerstone export funding program to encourage Australian small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to seek promotional opportunities for their goods, services and intellectual property overseas.

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