Ignite+ Commercialisation and Growth 2026

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Expression of Interest Ignite+ Commercialisation & Growth

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OVERVIEW

Ignite+ Commercialisation & Growth provides founders and management teams with access to tailored business support to expand the skills they require to commercialise their market ready products or services and/or achieve the enterprise's growth potential.

The program supports Queensland Government ’s aims to:

  • strengthen key industries in Queensland
  • diversify the Queensland economy
  • enable Queensland businesses to compete in domestic and global markets
  • engage and/or benefit regional Queensland

WHAT THE PROGRAM WILL COVER

Ignite+ Commercialisation & Growth will run between February and November 2026. It will deliver a suite of wrap around support activities to innovative, high-growth potential Queensland businesses, to support the state's innovation and growth agenda.

Together with capability-building, networking, ecosystem introductions, market development and capital raising support, there will be a key focus on mentoring, which has proven to be the most beneficial component to participants in the Ignite+ Programs delivered to date.

Ignite+ Commercialisation & Growth will commence with a two-day intensive Insights and Strategies Lab (26-27 February 2026 in Brisbane) for the entire cohort.  The Lab will address the business stage requirements for each participating enterprise, covering the building blocks for successful commercialisation and growth. The Lab will also allow for the participants to form collaborative relationships with each other and provide introductions to important participants and enablers in the Queensland innovation community.  

The Insights and Strategies Lab will incorporate:

  • Commercialisation & Growth Strategies  
  • Business Structures and Resourcing for Growth
  • Leveraging Networks
  • Knowing your Market
  • Connecting with your Customer
  • Sales Strategy and Fundamentals
  • Export models, Partnering and Channels to Market
  • Financial Basics
  • Funding – including:
    • Sources of grants and subsidies
    • Angel & Venture Capital and Investment
    • Debt Funding 
    • Funding alternatives
  • Strategic Leadership, Decision-making support and Governance

Following the Insights and Strategies Lab, participants will have access to a suite of online learning resources to support their ongoing development and will have opportunity to participate in workshops, innovation festivals and ecosystem events.

Each participant will be matched with highly experienced business mentors who will provide advice, support and guidance specific to individual business needs.

To complete the Program, there will be a Graduation/Celebration of Achievement event in November 2026.

Full commitment and engagement with this Program will be expected, for participating companies to maximise the value they can obtain for this opportunity.

KEY DATES

  • EOI Opens: 9am 1st December 2025 (AEST)
  • EOI Closes: 3pm Friday 16th January 2026 (AEST)
  • Insights and Strategies Lab: 26-27 February 2026 in Brisbane

Assessment Criteria

The following criteria will be considered in identifying the successful applicants:

Selection Criteria

  1. The applicant’s innovative product, service or process:
    • demonstrates a technical development or approach that is clearly innovative
    • is market ready (can be sold to market in its current state without significant further development)
    • or already has market foothold and potential for growth
  1. The business has:
    • a logical commercialisation strategy to identified target market(s) or has already successfully commercialised and is in or approaching growth phase
    • achievable/measurable 12-month milestones and longer-term objectives
    • a business model with well-defined strategy(s) and objectives that demonstrate high growth potential
  1. The person nominated to complete the program:
    • is a founder, CEO or approved senior manager of the enterprise
    • is committed to engage in and complete the program (Note: Successful applicants must sign an agreement that they will actively participate in the program)

Please provide detailed but concise responses to each question, writing for a broad audience and avoiding the use of technical jargon or unexplained acronyms. Attempt to address questions in full. Guidance text will be included to assist you. 

Eligibility Requirements

To be eligible to participate in the program, organisations must meet the following requirements:

Is the applicant organisation headquartered in Queensland (operating and having its head office located in Queensland)? * Required
For the purposes of this program "Located in Queensland" is any organisation that has a physical office in Queensland and has an ABN which states its "Main business location" is in Queensland.
Does the applicant organisation have an ABN? * Required
Is the applicant organisation ABN registered in Queensland as the main business location? * Required
Does the applicant organisation and/or related parties have 50 or less Full Time Equivalent employees? * Required
Is the applicant organisation a subsidiary of a group of companies that has more than 50 full-time-equivalent employees in total * Required
What stage of development is your product/service at? * Required
Response required.
Clear the selected value for What stage of development is your product/service at?
Choose the statement that most closely describes the current status of the product / technology / solution