NSW SBIR Program 2022 Challenges

The SBIR (Small Business Innovation and Research) program provides grants to NSW small and medium businesses to develop and commercialise innovative solutions to various challenges facing the NSW Government with the ultimate aim that these solutions can be sold to other customers around the world.

These challenges vary from year to year. The 2022 Challenges are:

Health Waste Recovery and Management to help NSW Health significantly increase resource recovery and divert waste from landfill
Biosecurity Surveillance to provide The NSW Department of Primary Industries with innovative technology solutions that leverage the power of citizen surveillance to more accurately identify and validate threats to the biosecurity of primary industries and the environment in NSW
Cultural and Linguistic Diversity Services to help NSW Health deliver Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered solutions to support the delivery of health services to Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) communities
Recycled Content Verification to help The Office of Energy and Climate Change deliver a solution that could trace and verify recycled material to help NSW Government agencies procure local recycled products
School Zones Alerting System to help Transport for NSW improve the existing School Zones Alerting System
Urban Heat Island to help NSW Health mitigate urban heat island effects and/or improve the resilience of our systems in response to extreme heat events
Vital Sign Monitoring to help Corrective Services NSW (CSNSW) monitor the vital health signs of inmates while in their cells.

The SBIR Program itself

The SBIR program has three phases:

Phase 1 – Feasibility study: SMEs submit proposals to solve one of the SBIR program challenges noted above. Applications are assessed and successful applicants will each receive funding of up to $100,000 to conduct a feasibility study of up to 3 months.

Phase 2 – Proof of concept: Successful feasibility study grantees are invited to apply for the proof-of-concept phase. Applications are assessed and successful applicants will receive funding of up to $1m to develop a proof of concept project of up to 15 months

Phase 3 – Procurement: NSW Government agencies will consider the procurement of successful solutions

The grant amount can be up to 100% of the project funding. But note this is a competitive grant and each application will be accessed against various criteria. If you are applying for the SBIR program make sure you address the criteria for each challenge.

Eligibility for the SBIR program

To be eligible for the SBIR program an applicant must:

Be headquartered in NSW, or conduct the majority of business research and development and production operations in NSW under an ABN
Be a small or medium-sized enterprise with under 200 full-time equivalent employees, or an individual, partnership or NSW public research organisation provided you agree to form a company incorporated in Australia to enter into a grant agreement.
Hold the Intellectual Property or the rights to commercialise the proposed solution.
Agree to undertake to conduct SBIR program-related research and development work in NSW.

Learn More

There will be webinars on each of the challenges in December.

To learn more about the program itself; when the webinars are on; each challenge; and how to apply click here

Note Phase 1: Feasibility study applications close 14 March 2023

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