Early Stage Commercialisation assistance is awarded through a merit based, competitive process.

Repayable grants from $250,000 to $2 million are available to successful applicants. Expenditure must be incurred on eligible project activities after a final Stage 2 Application has been accepted for assessment.

Types of eligible expenditure include:

• Labour;  
• Contracting;
• Plant;
• Prototyping; and
• Intellectual property protection.

This expenditure can be incurred for a range of activities including, but not limited to:

• product development;
• testing and documentation;
• tooling-up for full scale production;
• market validation; and
• IP strategy execution.

The grant funding provided under Early Stage Commercialisation assistance needs to be matched 50:50 by the applicant.

Detailed information on the terms and conditions of the Early Stage Commercialisation Repayable Grant is located in the Customer Information Guide.

More information on how to apply for Early Stage Commercialisation assistance can be found in the Apply section