Advanced Materials grants in Australia

Open

Funds Australian Queensland businesses to co-develop projects with regional universities under matching support.

Between cycles

Funds Australian startups and SMEs to solve government-nominated challenges with new tech.

Reimburses Australian businesses for a share of their eligible marketing and promotion spend when they sell or plan to sell products overseas.

Pays Australian exporters and their representative bodies between $20,000 and $80,000 a year in matched funding to market and promote their goods and services in international markets, with the maximum set by their export-readiness tier.

Between cycles

Funds Australian companies through tax incentives that reward innovation investment and reduce financial risk.

Closed

Funds three-year fellowships for early-career researchers across all disciplines except medical research with salary and project support.

Closed

Funds Australian university teams developing long-term, university-led research through a two-stage concept pathway.

Closed

Supports four-year fellowships for mid-career researchers in non-medical disciplines aligned with national science priorities.

Closed

Funds Australian universities and industry in co-funded projects with shared research contributions and partnership.

Funds WA early-stage founders and startups up to $50,000 to commercialise an innovation.

Discontinued

Supports Australian science-based startups with six-month acceleration, mentorship, and early-stage equity from CSIRO pathways.

Pays up to $50,000 to solvers who invent a plastic-free, compostable cold-cup material.

Open

Funds NIST partnership research across metrology, nanotechnology, AI and advanced manufacturing, open to almost any non-federal organisation except individuals.

Offers ₹9,00,000 in PhD sponsorships, internships and cash rewards to chemistry and coatings researchers.

Runs a climatetech accelerator that pairs carbon-materials startups with ExxonMobil for validation and collaboration, including a needs-based stipend to support participation.

Open

Funds Army research proposals across soldier feeding, protection, biomechanics and training technology on a rolling basis.

Open

Funds early climate research by university experts, enabling high-upside experiments before ventures are spun out.

Open

Funds innovators from any country developing near-term defence technology prototypes at TRL 6 or 7 through the MOD Defence Innovation Fund.

Open

Invests in hardware, aerospace, and defense innovation founders through a corporate venture platform tied to Lockheed Martin.

Open

Provides Massachusetts startup teams access to advanced prototyping and fabrication through MIT.nano collaboration.

Open

Offers sovereign-backed strategic capital programs for Singapore growth ventures in innovation and digital technology.

Between cycles

Funds organisations worldwide developing novel defence and security innovations across any technology area from TRL 1 to TRL 8.

Between cycles

Supports climate founders with catalytic funding and mentoring to advance early technology ideas into deployment-ready ventures.

Awards a free exhibition pod, travel and mentorship to deep-tech scale-ups that place in this annual competition at GITEX North Star in Dubai.