Business Research and Innovation Initiative (BRII)
Funds Australian startups and SMEs to solve government-nominated challenges with new tech.
BRII exists to build the innovation capacity of the startups, SMEs and government agencies that take part, help those SMEs access national and international markets and work confidently with government, and increase how often government agencies source innovative solutions rather than build them in-house. Each round opens against a different set of public policy or service delivery challenges that…
Australian Government agencies nominate public policy or service delivery problems each round, and BRII pays startups and SMEs to develop new-to-market technology solutions to those specific challenges. The scope shifts round to round with whatever problems agencies put forward, rather than covering one fixed field.
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