Boosting innovation

Innovation incubator

Lindfield Collaboration Hub is an innovation incubator. A dedicated space for start-ups and SME’s to develop unique, high-tech products and devices. Early stage and established companies can move to CSIRO’s Lindfield campus and access our facilities, science know-how, experience, business networks and commercialisation savvy.

The hub offers

Collaborative workspaces at CSIRO’s high-spec lab facilities in Lindfield

Access to digital and analogue electronics, prototyping equipment

General laboratory equipment and tools in Lindfield’s Maker Space and the large manufacturing workshops on site

The opportunity for collaboration between CSIRO staff, National Measurement Institute staff

Networking with other tenants though events, seminars and virtual connectivity to other CSIRO sites

Telepresence access to CSIRO’s nation-wide network of hubs and clusters

A TechVoucher scheme for matched funding, enabling companies to access CSIRO facilities/research

Access to CSIRO’s ON pre-accelerator program and a framework for companies to test products to an identified market need.

Involvement with organisations such as the Northern Sydney Science Hub and Inspiring Australia to promote the next generation of Australian science and innovation.