Funding 
Opportunities

AMCRC matches industry cash contributions on a dollar-for-dollar basis (i.e. AMCRC co-funds up to 50% of the total cash value of the project).

AMCRC funding is specifically designed to help manufacturing companies that are willing and have capacity to invest in multi-year, collaborative R&D projects with a minimum industry cash co-investment of $100,000 per project.

Industry may be eligible if:

• Industry intends to invest in a manufacturing R&D project of at least 18 months in duration with an AMCRC partner Australian research organisation

• Industry intends to invest in R&D that utilises or creates new manufacturing technologies with commercial potential

• Industry already has a manufacturing proof of concept and you plan to develop this through to readiness to invest in pilot line production/early stage commercialisation (i.e. scale-up)

• Industry is willing to involve other Australian manufacturing SMEs as collaborators during the project (e.g. partners, suppliers, providers, customers) to enable wider benefits

• Industry understands that a condition of funding is that investment from AMCRC can only be used to fund external research and cannot be used to fund your internal company costs.

AMCRC collaborates with the following Australian universities and research organisations:

•           Charles Darwin University

•           CSIRO

•           Curtin University

•           Deakin University

•           Flinders University

•           Griffith University

•           Monash University

•           Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT)

•           Swinburne University of Technology (SUT)

•           Adelaide University

•           University of Queensland (UQ)

•           University of Technology Sydney (UTS)

•          University of Western Sydney

Eligible projects must address MRL 4-7 at commencement and be designed to advance the technology / process by at least one MRL level, ideally two, over the course of the project.

Projects may include elements of earlier or later MRLs, provided they meet the overall eligibility and assessment criteria.

In-kind contributions are non-cash contributions that partners provide to AMCRC for use in the evaluation of projects and / or use in projects. It could be staff, equipment, data, office space or Intellectual Property (IP).

In-kind contributions from research and industry partners makes up a large portion of our total funding. To ensure there is a proportional use of in-kind contributions, the aim is that all projects have in-kind contributions that are double the cash project expenses.

When an organisation joins an AMCRC Project, it estimates the in-kind contributions it will contribute during theR&D collaboration. This will be confirmed prior to the project commencing.

Each project has a project agreement where Intellectual Property (IP) issues and specific project issues are set out and agreed together with project scope and funding for each project. In general, the project IP will be owned by the Industry Lead Partner(s), unless otherwise agreed by the project parties.

AMCRC takes no equity share in IP.

Background IP, and any improvements to that background IP, will remain the property of the party or parties that contributed the IP.