The following links are particularly useful for entrepreneurs that are just starting out and those looking at government grants.
Australian Institute for Commercialisation (AIC)
The AIC is a leading service organisation helping innovations achieve commercial success. By providing advice, solutions and tools, and by helping people improve their commercialisation skills, the AIC aims to fast-track the commercialisation of Australian innovation. The AIC also supports the Inventor Service on telephone number 1300 364 739.
BarCamp Queensland is a Queensland network of user generated conferences participatory events; whose content is provided by participants. The first BarCamps focused on early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies, social protocols, and open data formats.
Brisbane Functional Programming Group
The Brisbane Functional Programming Group (BFG) is a users group for developers interested in general functional programming topics in the greater Brisbane area.
Offers you simple and convenient access to all the government information, transactions and services you need. It's a whole-of-government service providing essential information on planning, starting and running your business.
Brisbane Internet Business Meetup Group
A group created to help Internet business Owners and aspiring Internet Entrepreneurs network and exchange ideas and views in a relaxed social setting.
Commercialisation Australia (CA)
Commercialisation Australia is the Australian Government's $196 million support initiative for home-grown innovation - is now open to receive applications. Commercialisation Australia will assist researchers, entrepreneurs and innovative firms to commercialise their ideas, offering grants on a co-contribution basis. The program is delivered by the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research.
Commercialising Emerging Technologies (COMET)
COMET is a federal government program which is merit based that supports early-growth stage and spin-off companies to successfully commercialise their innovations. COMET financial assistance for companies is available through a two tier funding structure. Tier 1 grants provide up to $64,000 and Tier 2 grants an additional $56,000.
Find a Queensland Government Grant
Find Queensland Government grants by using the Queensland Government Grant query wizard or by browsing through the Grant listing by name, category or department.
The $1.3 billion Green Car Innovation Fund offers grants from $100,000 for projects that significantly reduce fuel consumption and/or greenhouse gas emissions of passenger motor vehicles.
The Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research strives as a key priority to encourage the sustainable growth of Australian industries by developing a national innovation system that drives knowledge creation, cutting edge science and research, international competitiveness and greater productivity. The Department is committed to developing policies and delivering programs, in partnership with stakeholders, to provide lasting economic benefits ensuring Australia's competitive future.
Internship - The University of Queensland, Faculty of Business, Economics & Law
UQ's Faculty of Business, Economics and Law Employment Services invite you to submit project outlines for student internships.
2010 UQ Enterprize Competition
UQ Business School’s Enterprize competition is open to all entrepreneurs with a business idea that is ready to launch. Now in its 10th year Enterprize provides seed capital to promising start-up companies and gives participants the opportunity to have their business plan reviewed by potential investors
MobileMonday Brisbane
MobileMonday is a worldwide community of mobile professionals. The open community promotes the mobile industry and fosters cooperation and networking among industry people and their companies by providing opportunities for personal and virtual contacts.
Queensland.NET is an ICT Industry group initiated by a number of industry stakeholders and supported by the State Government of Queensland, Microsoft and other local stakeholders. Our aim is to bring together Queensland Software organisations to engage in co-operative activities, achieve collective competitiveness and develop new .NET platform opportunities for the Queensland software Industry as a whole.
The R&D Tax Credit will replace the R&D Tax Concession from 1 July 2010.
Ruby on Rails® is an open-source web framework that’s optimized for programmer happiness and sustainable productivity. It lets you write beautiful code by favouring convention over configuration.
The Hive
The Hive is networking for entrepreneurs. They get together to share advice, talk and hang out. Membership is free and easy, and everyone's welcome. If you have an idea and want to launch a venture or already have a venture then join The Hive.
The University of Queensland Enterprize Competition
Providing new opportunities for entrepreneurs to compete for prize money that will enable them to start-up new business ventures.
Upstarta.biz is the home of a group of people who run, or are interested in running, their on-line, ICT and Open Source related endeavours according to a set of principles that make them more people friendly (both to clients and self), resilient to recessions, (potentially) and better for the environment. In addition, the guidelines also apply well to non-profits and other organisations.