Programs Northern Territory - Darwin Innovation Hub

PROGRAMS

The Darwin Innovation Hub will help you grow your business.

We facilitate business growth by providing expert advice and access to grants and funds. Learn more by reviewing our range of business growth programs below.

StartNT Program

A DIH program for early stage start-ups. StartNT provides a “life-cycle” commercialisation pathway for companies looking to scale and become “investment ready” in the Northern Territory.

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Business Acceleration Northern Territory

Business Acceleration Program

Enables CEOs and Directors to identify opportunities, overcome business challenges and drive competitive advantage.

  • INCLUSIONS

    Funding of up to $30,000
    Professional mentoring 

  • ELIGIBILITY

    Must be a Northern Territory registered business 

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Recent Business Growth news, events and case studies

Blueflite CDU

Blueflite Initiates Collaborative Ventures in the Northern Territory

This week, the Darwin Innovation Hub had the pleasure of hosting Blueflite, one of the finalists of Croc Pitch 2023 and a recent beneficiary of the Paspalis Innovation Investment Fund. Making the journey from the United States, Frank Noppel…

Celebrating Innovation Excellence!

Darwin Innovation Hub congratulates the winners of the Business Innovation Program grant! These six trailblazers are set to redefine the game in their respective industries. Minister Paul Kirby delved into the visionary journey of Sam…
Croc Pitch finalists

Croc Pitch Runners Up will benefit from Investment Ready grant

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There was only one winner in the $1m 2023 Croc Pitch but that did not mean others went away empty handed. Now in its 5th year, Croc Pitch is Northern Australia's premier pitching competition for start-ups run by Darwin Innovation Hub.…
Liandra Next Gen

Liandra Swim Opens The Australian Fashion Week’s Next Gen Runway

It has been a sensational Australian Fashion Week for Paspalis Innovation Investment Fund (PIIF) Investee Company Liandra Swim. Liandra Gaykamangu opened the AAFW Next Gen Runway show on Friday, 19th May 2023 with her fashion label, Liandra…
Atomionics

‘It unlocks momentum’: Northern Australia pitching contest returns

A pitching contest that has helped attract global companies to Northern Australia and “unlock the momentum” of a number of young tech companies is returning in July. Croc Pitch, now in its fifth year, is sponsored by Paspalis Innovation…
Liandra Next Gen

NT start-up ‘Liandra Swim’ announced as AAFW’s Next Gen 2023 winner

As part of its Next Gen program, Afterpay Australian Fashion Week (AAFW) has announced Northern Territory start-up Liandra Swim as one of four winners. Liandra Gaykamangu, Liandra Swim founder and proud Yolngu woman, has had a big few weeks.…
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Innovation Funding Awarded to Territory Businesses

Five Territory businesses have been awarded funding to help them develop and commercialise their business innovation concepts, as part of the Business Innovation Program 2.0 (BIP 2.0). BIP 2.0 is a business support program that assists…
Innovation Strategy Territory

New strategy to deliver tech jobs and support innovators

Darwin Innovation Hub are proud winners of the Innovation Champion award for our leadership in developing the Territory Innovation ecosystem, and Innovation Leader award by way of the Compute Facility achievements through the Digital…
Business Innovation Strategy 2

Business Innovation Strategy 2.0 Launch

Please join the Hon Paul Kirby, Minister for Small Business in launching the Territory’s second Business Innovation Strategy. The goal of the Business Innovation Strategy 2.0 is to develop a $4 billion Territory innovation ecosystem…

Immediate Business Acceleration Program Topic 9: Managing Me

Being a business owner requires a broad set of skills that includes: sales finance managing people marketing strategy ability to multitask. Most people may not realise the physical, mental and psychological stamina…
Grow Business Acceleration

It’s time to grow

  Northern Territory Business Owners who take time out from the day-to-day running of their companies to learn how to grow are actually experiencing growth. Dr Jana Matthews, the internationally renowned expert on business growth,…

Immediate Business Acceleration Program Topic 8: How to manage innovation

Innovation is a continuum – with new ideas on one end and new products, services, or ways of doing things on the other end. The process of selecting a subset of new ideas or innovations and turning them into products and services that…

Immediate Business Acceleration Program Topic 7: Creating a growth culture within your company

Your culture is the result of the values and behaviour of all the people who work in your company, including you. If everyone shares the same values (high values fit), the culture will be strong, and employees are likely to be high performers. But…

Immediate Business Acceleration Program Topic 6: Steps to attract and retain people who can accelerate growth

Many don’t know what to look for or how to pick great employees. But picking alone is not enough. You may be good at picking people who are right for your organisation, but if you don’t orient them right, clarify their roles and responsibilities…

Immediate Business Acceleration Program Topic 5: Assessing risks and opportunities

Most people who start a business think they would rather work for themselves than someone else. They believe that by owning their own company, they will be in a better position to control their own destiny - in effect better able to manage…

Immediate Business Acceleration Program Topic 4: Who are your ideal customers

Once you have done a marketing plan, who your customers are should be clear. But it will take more work to define your ‘ideal’ customers. When starting up, companies are grateful for a sale, because any sale is a validation that…

Immediate Business Acceleration Program Topic 3: Understanding the difference between marketing and sales

Company owners have said that a major reason for a past company failure was not understanding who their customers and competitors were, and who they were i.e. what their company did well. In short, the failure was due to: insufficient…

Immediate Business Acceleration Program Topic 2: Finding money you need to grow your company

It’s almost impossible to grow without investing in some aspect of your business. Here are five ways, from the easiest to most difficult, to get the money needed for growth. Choose from below to find out more. Read the article The…

Immediate Business Acceleration Program Topic 1: Your business model and how do you make money

Many business owners start their own companies because they want to work for themselves rather than someone else. But if you want your company to survive and grow, you will need to be more focused on your customers needs than your own…
Graduates of BAP 2021

Congratulations Graduates of BAP 2021

A big congratulations to Chartair, M+J Builders, Universal Site Monitoring and Winnellie Hydraulics who recently graduated from the Northern Territory Government's Business Acceleration Program. Australian Centre for Business…
grow business northern territory

New collaboration to accelerate growth of small and medium companies in the Northern Territory

Companies in the Northern Territory that want to grow are being offered a suite of programs by The Australian Centre for Business Growth (AUCBG), the Chamber of Commerce Northern Territory (CCNT), and the Darwin Innovation Hub (DIH). The…
Business Acceleration Northern Territory, Territory BAP

Unlocking Potential of Territory Small Businesses

Now in its fourth year, the Business Acceleration Program (BAP) is back, bigger and better than ever, with an expanded program and additional placements now available for Territory businesses. BAP is a Territory Government initiative…

Universal Site Monitoring (USM) a finalist of INNOV8RS competition 2021!

Universal Site Monitoring (USM) has been chosen as a finalist, one of the twenty four most innovative small businesses Australia wide in David Koch’s Business Builders INNOV8RS competition 2021. After three weeks of searching, Kochie’s…
USM Accelerating Commercialisation Grant

Accelerating Commercialisation Grant secured by Universal Site Monitoring USM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HscAmcVn-qM Congratulations to Universal Site Monitoring (USM) for being awarded the Accelerating Commercialisation Grant! USM won $698K for their next generation personal safety monitors for workers in…
Womens Innovation Pitch Northern Territory

Women’s Innovation Pitch Northern Territory

Join the Hon. Lauren Moss MLA, Minister for Women, for the Women’s Innovation Pitch. About this Event The Northern Territory Government is hosting the Women’s Innovation Pitch, where six Territorian women will pitch…

Supply Chain Resilience Initiative

Overview On 1 October 2020 the Australian Government announced a new $107.2 million Supply Chain Resilience Initiative (SCRI) to help position Australia to better respond to future crises such as COVID-19. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic…
Singapore and Northern Territory partner

Accelerating space tech – Singapore and Northern Territory partner through MOU

The Territory is shooting for the stars this week as the NT Government and the Darwin Innovation Hub sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Cap Vista Pte Ltd, the strategic investment arm of the Singapore’s Defence Science and Technology…
Australian Centre for Business Growth

Rebound and Grow – What to do, when, why and in what order

An intensive one-day workshop on what it takes to grow a company, delivered by world-renowned business Growth Expert Dr Jana Matthews.
HYRA Darwin

Darwin startup HYRA launches app

Only a few weeks after showcasing their app at the Darwin Innovation Hub's Business Acceleration Social Hour event, HYRA has officially launched. HYRA is an app based peer to peer network that provides users with the ability to search quality…
The NT Drones Network

NT Drones Network Seminar Presentations

The NT Drones Network are the collaborative group of business, industry, academia and government leading the Northern Territory (NT) drone industry. The network identifies collaborative opportunities that can benefit the NT as well as issues…

Business Acceleration Program – Growth Modules Cohort 2

The Business Acceleration Program is an initiative of the Northern Territory Government, hosted by the Darwin Innovation Hub, delivered by the Australian Centre for Business Growth.

Business Acceleration Program – Growth Modules Cohort 2

The Business Acceleration Program is an initiative of the Northern Territory Government, hosted by the Darwin Innovation Hub, delivered by the Australian Centre for Business Growth.
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Business Innovation Program

With the goal of supporting local jobs and growth in the Northern Territory across broad industry sectors and providing expert skills to the start-up ecosystem the Darwin Innovation Hub (DIH) has now successfully shifted into the next phase…

Business Acceleration Program – Growth Modules Cohort 2

The Business Acceleration Program is an initiative of the Northern Territory Government, hosted by the Darwin Innovation Hub, delivered by the Australian Centre for Business Growth.
nt drones switching on darwin program suppliers

Business Innovation Program – Applications now open

Applications for the Business Innovation Program (BIP) are now open with businesses able to apply for funding of up to $30,000 on a dollar-for-dollar matched funding basis. Business Innovation Program The BIP helps Territory businesses…
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NT Business Acceleration Program – Module 3 Highlights

https://youtu.be/4FRnVgcX8zk
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NT Drones Network Seminar

The NT Drones Network are the collaborative group of business, industry, academia and government leading the Northern Territory (NT) drone industry.
SME ConnectER

Applications now open for NERA’s SME ConnectER program at AOG 2020

NERA is inviting applications from small to medium enterprises (SMEs) with innovative solutions for the oil and gas industry to participate in their SME ConnectER event at the 2020 Australasian Oil & Gas Exhibition & Conference (AOG).…
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Calling for Business Innovation Program suppliers

Applications for the Business Innovation Program (BIP) opened on 1 November 2019. DTBI are now calling for registrations to become a registered supplier for the program. As part of BIP, all applicants will be required to select a supplier…

Business Acceleration Program Graduation – Darwin

Congratulations to the first cohort of Territory companies who graduated from the Business Acceleration Program in Darwin last week. The Business Acceleration Program is an initiative of the Northern Territory Government, hosted by the…
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Business Innovation Program applications now open!

Applications for the Business Innovation Program are now open with businesses able to apply for professional mentoring through an Innovator in Residence program and funding of up to $30,000 on a dollar-for-dollar matched funding basis. The…
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Business Innovation Program information session

On behalf of the Department of Trade, Business and Innovation, we would like to invite you to attend an information session on the Business Innovation Program (BIP). This session will provide you with information on how the program can…
business innovation program

Business Innovation Program information session

This session will provide you with information on how the Business Innovation Program (BIP) can provide access to integrated coaching, funding and ecosystem opportunities in a wraparound service to support your business to develop and implement a business Innovation Commercialisation Plan.
business innovation program

Business Innovation Program information session

This session will provide you with information on how the Business Innovation Program (BIP) can provide access to integrated coaching, funding and ecosystem opportunities in a wraparound service to support your business to develop and implement a business Innovation Commercialisation Plan.
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Business Innovation Network NT (BINNT)

BINNT is an informal groping of businesses, start-ups and entrepreneurs interested in pursuing innovation in their businesses and/or guiding and mentoring innovation by others. The network aims to keep the innovation conversation stimulated…
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Department of Trade, Business and Innovation

The Department of Trade, Business and Innovation is supporting Territory innovators to take their ideas from conception to commercialisation. The Department will be offering $50,000 in Business Innovation funding to the winner of the 2019 Croc…

Business Acceleration Program – Growth Clinic Darwin

The Business Acceleration Program is an initiative of the Northern Territory Government, hosted by the Darwin Innovation Hub, delivered by the Australian Centre for Business Growth.
growth clinic katherine

Business Acceleration Program – Growth Clinic Katherine

The Business Acceleration Program is an initiative of the Northern Territory Government, hosted by the Darwin Innovation Hub, delivered by the Australian Centre for Business Growth.
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Business Acceleration Program – Growth Clinic Alice Springs

The Business Acceleration Program is an initiative of the Northern Territory Government, hosted by the Darwin Innovation Hub, delivered by the Australian Centre for Business Growth.
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Business Acceleration Program – Growth Clinic Darwin

The Business Acceleration Program is an initiative of the Northern Territory Government, hosted by the Darwin Innovation Hub, delivered by the Australian Centre for Business Growth.
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Business Acceleration Program – Growth Clinic Darwin

The Business Acceleration Program is an initiative of the Northern Territory Government, hosted by the Darwin Innovation Hub, delivered by the Australian Centre for Business Growth.
growth clinics darwin

Business Acceleration Program – Growth Clinic Darwin

The Business Acceleration Program is an initiative of the Northern Territory Government, hosted by the Darwin Innovation Hub, delivered by the Australian Centre for Business Growth.
Growth Clinics

Business Acceleration Program – Growth Clinic Darwin

The Business Acceleration Program is an initiative of the Northern Territory Government, hosted by the Darwin Innovation Hub, delivered by the Australian Centre for Business Growth.

Business Acceleration Program – Growth Clinics 2019

The Business Acceleration Program is an initiative of the Northern Territory Government, hosted by the Darwin Innovation Hub, delivered by the Australian Centre for Business Growth. Program Overview The Business Acceleration Program consists…
business acceleration program launch

Business Acceleration Program Launch

Thank you to everyone who joined us in launching the second Business Acceleration Program for NT companies in Darwin this morning! The Business Acceleration Program is an initiative of the Northern Territory Government, hosted by the…
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Business Acceleration Program 2019 Launch Event

Following the success of the Business Acceleration Program in 2018/19, we're excited to announce that the program - an initiative of the Northern Territory Government hosted by the Darwin Innovation Hub and delivered by the Australian Centre for Business Growth - will be offered again in 2019/2020!
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Business Acceleration Program: Growth Module June

Business Acceleration Program: Growth Module June
Nanyang Technological University

Nanyang Technological University

Nanyang Technological University is a research-intensive public university which has 33,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students in the colleges of Engineering, Business, Science and Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences and its Graduate…
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Business Acceleration Program – Module 1 Highlights

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNqgO_Sirjg What CEOs/MDs say about the Business Acceleration Program NT CEOs/MDs share their highlights from Module 1 of the Business Acceleration Program.
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Business Acceleration Program

Business Acceleration Program - Module 1 The Business Acceleration Program is an initiative of the Northern Territory Government, hosted by the Darwin Innovation Hub, delivered by the Australian Centre for Business Growth. Last week,…

Do you have an i for innovation?

https://youtu.be/VCcq64xpSMQ The Northern Territory Government has released it's first ever Northern Territory Business Innovation Strategy. A key part of the strategy is celebrating the Territory's unique business innovation stories. This…
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Business Acceleration Program: Growth Modules

The Growth Modules are a series of three, three-day modules that teach CEOs/MDs and their Executive Team how to lead, manage and grow their companies.

Business Acceleration Program Growth Clinic November

Business Acceleration Program Growth Clinic November! Join us at the Darwin Innovation Hub for the final Growth Clinic for 2018.
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Innovation grants and voucher scheme

Applications are closing soon for small business innovation grants! Innovation grants under the BISI program are now open.
business acceleration program growth clinic

Business Acceleration Program Growth Clinic

The Business Acceleration Program is an initiative of the Northern Territory Government, hosted by the Darwin Innovation Hub, delivered by the Australian Centre for Business Growth.
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Business Acceleration Program – Dr Jana Matthews Launch Video

https://aucbg.app.box.com/s/o08nt59i10zmkxby7etdjjqczl30p47c Business Acceleration Program Intensive business growth program that enables CEOs/MDs and executives of NT-based companies to identify growth opportunities, overcome business challenges,…
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August Newsletter

https://mailchi.mp/90948f234e43/darwin-innovation-hub-newsletter-august August has been an extraordinarily busy month as we inch closer to Croc Pitch in October! Entrepreneur in Residence Dean Alle conducted our first Croc Camp down in Alice…
Business Acceleration Program

Business Acceleration Program Launch Darwin

The Business Acceleration Program is an initiative of the NT Government, hosted by the Darwin Innovation Hub, by the Australian Centre for Business Growth.
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Business Acceleration Program Launch Event

We're excited to announce the Business Acceleration Program, an initiative of the Northern Territory Government hosted by the Darwin Innovation Hub and delivered by the Australian Centre for Business Growth.

Chamber of Commerce Business at Sunset

Join us for the Chamber of Commerce's Business at Sunset  Our Third Thursday for March will be moved to the Third Wednesday as the Darwin Innovation Hub is proudly hosting the Chamber of Commerce's Business at Sunset at the Hub.  We are…
october newsletter

January Newsletter

http://mailchi.mp/4349c60b504f/darwin-innovation-hub-newsletter-january-346393   2018 is off to a flying start! And just like that, the first 180 days of the Darwin Innovation Hub have been and gone! As our cohort continues to evolve…
Indigenous Economic Development Forum

Innovation Panel at the 8th Indigenous Economic Development Forum

The Darwin Innovation Hub is very proud to have been part of the 8th Indigenous Economic Development Forum!
Facebook

Facebook Family of Apps with Melissa Verner Green

Melissa Verner Green, Head of Melbourne Agency & Government at Facebook and Instagram provided insightful information about all things Facebook, Messenger and Instagram and how to best utilize each app for your business. 

BEC: Business Solution Workshops

Check out Business Solution Workshops run by the Business Enterprise Centre (Darwin Region)

Hub Members: Business Enterprise Centre

The BEC is a not for profit, industry based private sector organisation, which provides low cost business training, advice and professional referrals.
innovathens

DIH establishes European Union collaboration

DIH established a European Union collaboration partnership with Innovathens, the Hub of Innovation & Entrepreneurship of Technopolis City of Athens.