Support the development of an innovation ecosystems for engineering industries and encourage companies to play a leading role in the development of new technologies and sustainable products, processes, and services.
Key Deliverables:
- Develop the engineering sector as a global centre or engineering excellence and innovation.
- Accelerate the pace of digital transformation and realise new business opportunities as we transition to a low carbon economy through funding supports.
- Increase the number of engineering businesses engaging in innovative activities.
High level objectives
Develop the engineering sector as a global centre for engineering excellence and innovation.
- Encourage business leaders to create a vision for innovation and embrace new technologies and build management capabilities and niche areas of competencies within the site.
- Promote and showcase innovation across the engineering sector through best practice sharing of innovation among members.
- Drive competitiveness through enterprise excellence and use of advanced technologies.
Accelerate the pace of digital transformation and realise new business opportunities as we transition to a low carbon economy through funding supports.
- Advocate for enhanced state support for enterprise research and development.
- Advocate for investment in 5G infrastructure and speed up the roll out of national broadband and
remote working hubs. - Assist companies to identify private investment partners and secure sources of funding for research and development.
Increase the number of engineering businesses engaging in innovative activities.
- Promote and strengthen research collaboration between engineering sectors businesses and both national and international academic research
and technology centres.
