Posts tagged "SME grants"

Thousands more Australian businesses will now be able to apply for matched funding grants to undertake research and development through the CSIRO's Kick-Start program.

Small and medium businesses struggling to keep up with rising power bills can now apply for up to $25,000 in federal government grants, with the funding intended to help enterprises install new energy-efficient technology and investigate ways to effectively reduce their power usage.

The businesses are being paid by the federal government to trial tech solutions with a view to reducing bureaucratic processes described as ‘regulatory burdens’.

The federal government has announced grants of up to $25,000 for small and medium businesses in the $132.7 billion food and beverage manufacturing industry.

Small businesses and startups working on environmental solutions are being offered $100,000 grants to develop feasibility studies for their ideas.

In the wake of Australia’s bushfires, many small businesses will face a tough decision – whether to rebuild, and then how to “build back better”