The ANSTO Innovation Precinct is a hub of ANSTO’s innovation, commercialisation and entrepreneurship activities. It is an environment where world-leading science develops into innovative commercial businesses. By nurturing and supporting a start-up ecosystem to encourage a pipeline of future job creating businesses.
The innovation centre will tap into ANSTO’s robust technical skills, research, industry leading businesses and world-class research infrastructure, it’s the place where ideas and companies come together and by nurturing and supporting a start-up ecosystem it will encourage a pipeline of future job creating businesses.
The ANSTO Innovation Precinct will have three major components: a Graduate Institute, a Technology Park and an Innovation Centre (the pilot of which opened in Oct 2017). These three components will enable ANSTO to act as a conduit between research, industry and universities, driving innovation capability and employment and economic growth in Australia and NSW. The Precinct will co-locate and crowd-in scientific partners, knowledge-intensive businesses, SMEs, high-tech industry and science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine (STEMM) graduates from Australian universities around Australia’s centre of nuclear capabilities and expertise.
ANSTO’s research infrastructure and unique expertise is a critical part of Australia’s economic, education and skills base – enabling knowledge production and technological breakthroughs; solving problems for industry; maintaining a highly skilled Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) workforce; and sustaining Australia’s business and research competitiveness and global relevance.
As the custodian of much of Australia’s landmark and national research infrastructure, ANSTO is well positioned to connect people to researchers and infrastructure, and create a dynamic environment for innovation in Australia.
Adi Paterson
CEO of ANSTO
