$20,000 grants for WA innovators

Written By Anne Furey

The WA State Government are offering grants up to $20,000 to successful WA based start-ups and small businesses to help them commercialise their innovative ideas or projects.

The Innovation Booster Grant Program - formerly the Innovation Voucher Program - will support successful applicants to access professional skills, services or knowledge, and enable them to advance an innovative idea, project or commercial activity in Western Australia.

Eligible expenditure categories include:

  • Research and Development

  • Product Development

  • Technology Transfer and Intellectual Property

  • Commercialisation Support Services

The Innovation Booster Grant is designed to help successful applicants to:

  • develop new or enhanced, commercially-ready products or services

  • establish a minimum viable product (MVP), prototype, process or system that might attract additional investment or customers,

  • address a technical problem that cannot be solved by the applicant, or for which a solution is not readily available

Successful grantees will need to provide a cash co-contribution of at least 20% of the total project budget cost (20:80 applicant to state government funding).

Applications must be submitted by 11AM on 20 April 2022.

More information and links to the online application portal can be found here.

Anne Furey