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Startup Ecosystem Roundtable with NSW Minister of Innovation, Kevin Anderson MP.

Date Fri 6th Dec 2019, 11:00 am - 1:30 pm
Location Sydney School of Entrepreneurship, Building J/651-731 Harris St, Ultimo NSW 2007, Australia

This roundtable event was organised by Chris Clark (Spark) and Jono Herman (NSIN) to enable relevant stakeholders provide feedback to and receive advice from the Minister for Better Regulation and Innovation about the actions and programs the NSW State Government can take to develop the advanced manufacture and hardware based business ecosystem in NSW.

Notes

Key Challenges

  1. High costs up front; tooling, parts, fabrication & certification,
  2. Lack of strategic investment, patient capital and open access,
  3. Poor logistics, expensive supply chains and difficult markets access,
  4. Fragmented data sharing between participants in industry, and
  5. "Start/Stop" approach to Government support.

Proposed Responses

  1. Develop the existing business ecosystem in coordination with federal programs,
  2. Unlock the facilities already available in PFROs and Universities, and
  3. Activate precinct projects to scale locally to create "Shenzhen in Sydney" to
  4. Improve efficiency and productivity by lowering the cost of doing business locally.

Accelerating R&D in NSW

The Accelerating R&D in NSW is an initiative led by The Hon. Gabrielle Upton MP, Parliamentary Secretary to the Premier to answer the questions:

  1. How do we get the most out of NSW Government’s R&D activity
  2. How can NSW Government support and improve the R&D and commercialisation ecosystem more generally?

Submissions open on 28 October 2019 and close on 13 December 2019. Please provide concrete examples to help us understand the issue and specific suggestions that we can action.

  1. About You
    1. Organisation name
    2. Sector
    3. Name of representative from your organisation
    4. Phone
    5. Email
  2. Questions
    1. How can the NSW Government better support you/your organisation in its R&D efforts?
    2. How can the NSW Government better support the R&D and innovation ecosystem in NSW?
    3. What barriers for R&D in NSW have you experienced and how can the NSW Government address these?
    4. What does the NSW Government do well in the R&D space and what are the key opportunities for NSW Government to accelerate R&D in NSW?
    5. How can NSW better leverage Australian Government investment in R&D?
    6. Are there examples from other jurisdictions supporting R&D that NSW can learn from/adopt?
    7. Please upload any additional documents that support your submission.

Please submit your response here.

Please see our response. Please use anything you deem relevant to your own submission.

Waratah Research Network

In 2018 the NSW Government established the Waratah Research Network Government Forum (the Network) to strategically engage with the NSW university sector.

The Network is chaired by NSW Chief Scientist and Engineer, Professor Hugh Durrant-Whyte. The Deputy Secretary of Skills and Higher Education is Deputy Chair. Senior officials from each cluster are represented. An invitation to the Chair of the NSW Deputy Vice-Chancellors – Research Committee is extended for each meeting.

The Network has examined ways in which the NSW Government sector currently engages in research and development activity, both with the university sector and as part of Government activity. The Network will identify priority research projects with interagency strategic relevance.

The Waratah initiative is funded by the NSW Government, with $7.5 million budgeted until 2022. Most of this budget is for the Waratah Grants strategic research fund, which will fund the priority research projects. The aim of the initiative is to help the NSW university sector to deliver more high-impact research for the people and communities of NSW.

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Roundtable Hosts

  • Chris Clark (Spark)
  • Jono Herman (NSIN)

Context

PROJECT INFORMATION
fb8jvx55lc9xbyl7.png Make your Accelerating R&D in NSW submission. An initiative led by The Hon. Gabrielle Upton MP, Parliamentary Secretary to the Premier.
flkqll540zhp384f.png Hardware Start-up Ecosystem Project seeks to build comprehensive self sustaining ecosystem dashboard for startups and local business to foster globally competitive high value-add industries in Australia. With a focus on hardware, deep tech and advanced manufacture and leveraging existing projects and related directories instead of replacing or competing them, this project seeks to create an "always available" online application enabling distributed and dynamic information sharing between all stakeholders from students and founders to startups through scaleups to corporates, incubators, accelerators, investors, funds, industry, education and government.
ja0qbhhiqujf6o98.jpg NSW Hardware Ecosystem Report work conducted by the interns sponsored by the Hardware Start-up Ecosystem Project to map out the existing hardware manufacturing ecosystem in the wider Sydney region to provide exposure of these companies to startups, small-to-medium enterprises (SME’s) larger corporations. It is the first step in pursuit of our primary goal to empower Australian companies to discover and utilise domestic suppliers for sourcing and services that are commonly being outsourced overseas.
x7nmif5vg7mwnj5g.jpg Business Database a small but growing database of Australian Businesses engaged in advanced manufacture and providing services to this sector which has been bootstrapped by the work undertaken by the interns sponsored by the Hardware Start-up Ecosystem Project.
vry9r7hrcyqluxlw.jpg Ecosystem Map plots the location of the database of Australian Businesses engaged in advanced manufacture and providing services to this sector which has been bootstrapped by the work undertaken by the interns sponsored by the Hardware Start-up Ecosystem Project.
baoupvz3qnegsrn6.jpg Crossroads 2020 The StartupAUS Crossroads Report is the definitive guide to Australia’s tech startup sector. Now in its sixth edition, our 2020 edition of Crossroads features a foreword by Global Chair of Tesla Inc., Robyn Denholm, and an detailed look at the progress, milestones, challenges and opportunities for Australia’s technology sector. Crossroads 2020 details the rise of Australia’s most successful startups, the progress of the ecosystem in terms of capital, culture and talent, the political headwinds facing global technology and the importance of supporting startups for the future of Australia’s economic prosperity (Download).
coooyr9l43cy7oa1.png Global NSW positions Sydney and NSW as Australia’s global hub, bringing together the expertise of our people representing industry, innovation, workforce development, education and tourism. Global NSW is a government-wide plan to grow and build on our prosperity. We will do this by growing and diversifying trade, stimulating new business investment, fostering innovation and boosting our industry competitiveness in our cities and across the regions.
xte9gjw8ukcn8jnc.jpg Investing in Science is a program run by the NSW Chief Scientist to invest the state's research and development capacity under name Research Attraction and Acceleration Program (RAAP).
44a6hk2i1tzwawfe.png NSW Medical Device Fund The Medical Devices Fund aims to provide support to individuals, companies, public and private hospitals, medical research institutes, universities and the medical devices industry, to take local innovation to market. It is cited as an example on which to model funding in other sectors.
z5pdupwqmhfyzm8k.jpg Gonski drafted in to lead R&D push The NSW government is attempting to fill the gap in Australia's very disjointed approach to research and development by announcing a new advisory council Monday to be chaired by David Gonski. The official brief is to make NSW "the R&D leader within Australia and a world class contributor”.
beeu9ezti68xzi7w.jpg Helping Young People Make Their Ideas Real Kebloom helps young people launch their idea into the real world with confidence. We are the step-by-step platform and partner through the whole process. “65% of kids entering school today will work in completely new jobs that don’t exist yet”. - McLeod Scott and Karl Fisch, Shift Happens
20191206-attendee-responses-4ia28qw3rdekoqxl.jpg Initial responses by invitees to the roundtable to the questions (A) what are the key challenges / upcoming goals for your organisation and/or groups you represent? and (B) Please list up to three areas the NSW Government could best assist Startups & Investors to drive benefits for the economy and community at a State level?
yhyqm19ga5arzik2.jpg Emma Dowsett Senior Advisor at NSW Minister for Better Regulation and Innovation.

Ministers

MINISTER INFORMATION
print.jpg The Hon. Kevin John ANDERSON, MP, Member of the Legislative Assembly, Member for Tamworth, Minister for Better Regulation and Innovation, Member of The Nationals
print.jpg The Hon. Gabrielle Cecelia UPTON, MBA, BA, LLB MP Member of the Legislative Assembly Member for Vaucluse Parliamentary Secretary to the Premier Member of the Liberal Party
print.jpg The Hon. Victor Michael DOMINELLO, MP Member of the Legislative Assembly Member for Ryde Minister for Customer Service Member of the Liberal Party.
print.jpg The Hon. Stuart Laurence AYRES, MP Member of the Legislative Assembly Member for Penrith Minister for Jobs, Investment, Tourism and Western Sydney Member of the Liberal Party
print.jpg The Hon. Dominic Francis PERROTTET, LLB, BCOM MP Member of the Legislative Assembly Member for Epping Treasurer Member of the Liberal Party
print.jpg The Hon. Gladys BEREJIKLIAN, BA, DIntS, MCom MP Member of the Legislative Assembly Member for Willoughby Premier Member of the Liberal Party

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Revision Update
04 [2019-12-06 Fri 17:19] Notes updated.
03 [2019-12-06 Fri 12:00] Roundtable with Chief Scientist.
02 [2019-12-06 Fri 11:00] Roundtable with the Minister.
01 [2019-11-02 Sat 19:45]Created. This meeting is by invitation only, with the opportunity for you to represent your organisation and contribute to the discussion aimed to create tangible and beneficial outcomes for the startup sector through proactive and collaborative engagement with Government.