Flinders University’s award-winning New Venture Institute is a leader in the innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystem in metropolitan Adelaide and in regional South Australia and has supported over 327 local start-ups to date.

For more than 40 years Flinders University has been a leader in the Creative Industries with a global reputation which has contributed to making Adelaide an international leader in the Arts.

The University of Adelaide’s Australian Institute for Machine Learning, Lot Fourteen’s first anchor tenant, is a global leader in machine learning and artificial intelligence. In addition, Lot Fourteen based industry will link with the University’s leading capability in cybersecurity, data analytics and entrepreneurship and will connect with students to develop new innovations through work integrated learning and internship opportunities.

The University of South Australia’s mission is focused on educating highly skilled professionals for the South Australian workforce and producing knowledge through applied research in Health, IT, Engineering and Future Industries, Education, Arts and Social Sciences and Business.

With over 400km of pristine coastline as well as vast national and state parks, the NSW south coast is the third most visited region in NSW, attracting 4.9 million visitors (excluding figures for Jervis Bay).

This equates to 12.3% of total visits made within NSW making the Far South Coast one of the state’s most popular tourist destinations. This annual visitation is a balanced division between day-trippers and overnight visitors.

Over 70,000 international visitors travel to the Far South Coast region each year.

Agriculture, farm gate to plate and the processing of Eyre Peninsula primary industry produce into agribusiness products such as Gourmet Salt and Beta Carotene in Whyalla is a significant growth sector.

The opportunity exists to use the Whyalla Green program to partner with PIRSA, University of Adelaide (Roseworthy/ Waite), UniSA and local farmers/landowners to establish a new local farm gate product that includes a produce processing plant/s that can double as a Cooperative Research Centre. This offers valuable opportunities, generating both seasonal work on farms and in the off- farm milling and processing industry.

Clean Seas is the global leader in full cycle breeding, production and sale of Spencer Gulf Kingfish and the largest producer of aquaculture Yellowtail Kingfish outside Japan.

Clean Seas local operational footprint includes a Hatchery and R&D facility on South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula, multiple farm sites across the Spencer Gulf and a world- class seafood processing facility in Adelaide.

Brisbane has rapidly emerged as an influential leader in the Asia Pacific and a highly desirable place to do business. The city’s growing global recognition was accelerated by its highly successful staging of the 2014 G20 World Leaders Summit. Capitalising on its enhanced international reputation, Brisbane is shaping itself as a vibrant hub and world leader attracting industry sectors that are globally scalable in the new world economy.

New investment helps to establish Brisbane as a global hub for competitively advantageous industries. Brisbane’s strong growth prospects can be leveraged to attract new investment to the city, even during a time when global investment trends are weak.

Specific advantages linked to Brisbane include:
 competitively positioning Brisbane within Asia as a global centre of excellence for mining and energy technologies
 a desirable location to support fly-in fly-out operations
 significant and growing capacity in innovative manufacturing, ICT, design, creative industries, biomedical, education, research, food manufacturing, clean technologies, aviation and logistics
 large and continuing infrastructure investments  a single council looking after most of the
capital city economy
 a world class air and sea port located close to the city, with capacity to accommodate new industrial developments within the precinct at Australia TradeCoast.

Wine and associated industries, livestock, grain, pulses and horticulture, plus tourism are the main industries in the region.

The Barossa is a world-class region of fine wine endeavour based on a unique story of generations, inheritance and hallowed ground. The Barossa is a home to some of the oldest Shiraz, Grenache, Cabernet Sauvignon and Semillon vineyards in the world.

The Barossa Region is SA’s food and wine tourism flagship well supported by trails for cycling, walking and riding. Colonial heritage and culinary traditions inspired by early settlers are alive and well, and modern reinventions have sparkled interest in cultural food experiences including cooking schools, artisan products, farmers markets and restaurants.

Three major contributors to the Region`s agricultural output are broadacre cropping, livestock and fruit production.

The Barossa Region has a rich cultural and historical affinity with horses and a strong growing industry. The Barossa Region is home to a state-of-the art Equine Health and Performance Centre situated in the Roseworthy Campus of the University of Adelaide.

The dairy industry is moving towards a more intensive system of production, with efficiencies in establishing ‘dairy pads’ as well as the more traditional fodder-based dairies.

In the region, beef farming is undertaken on a smaller scale that other regions across NSW due to the smaller size of properties. It operates as part of a mixed farming system with cropping or hay production, enabling feed to be stored on farm for drier periods or sold. The nursery industry relies on many of the similar secondary industries as the other agricultural industries in the region.

Wheat, oats and maize grown in the Shoalhaven provide feed for dairy cattle in the region. Lucerne, pasture and cereal hay grown in the Shoalhaven provide feed for cattle and Lucerne hay for the equine industry. The Bega Cheese processing plant is the main milk processor in the South East and Tablelands Region. The plant employs over 500 staff in the Bega Valley.

The south coast’s oysters, mussels and scallops enjoy an international reputation as
being safe, sustainable and high quality. Aquaculture provides regional employment, tourism opportunities, food security and a reliable supply of quality fresh seafood for locals and international diners alike.

Manufacturing is the largest employer in the Central Hume region, followed by retail, health and community services. Wodonga has an important manufacturing base, with many national companies established in the area as well as a significant defence force presence.

Hume is a fast-growing region in Victoria with a social and cultural fabric and heritage to match its natural beauty. Renowned for world-class wines and gourmet food, the region is woven together by the Goulburn, Broken, Ovens, Kind and Kiewa Rivers – all vital to sustaining a rich environment, lifestyle and business. The Strathbogie Ranges represent the gateway to Victoria’s High Country and integral to the region popularity for nature-based tourism and cycling.

Hume is extremely varied in its industry and employment make-up, with a strong concentration of agriculture in the west and the alpine, wine and gourmet food areas in the region's east making tourism a strong contributor to regional employment.

Two of Australia’s nationally important transport routes – the Hume and Goulburn Valley transport corridors – traverse the region, providing an exceptional competitive advantage by linking supply chains to national and international markets through Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Canberra.

The Goulburn Valley area is a long-established agricultural region, which is at the forefront of global food production. Traditional broad acre farming combined with dairy, viticulture, orchards, olives and aquaculture endorse the 'food bowl' label, and various large and international companies call the region home including SPC Ardmona, Uncle Toby's, Mars Petcare and the Woolworths Distribution Centre.

The region includes four of Victoria’s six alpine resorts –Falls Creek, Mount Hotham, Mount Buller and Mount Stirling – which are managed on behalf of the State Government by Alpine Resort Management Boards

The Lake Mountain Alpine Resort is a significant tourism destination for the region. The Lake Eildon and Kinglake National parks and Cathedral Ranges State park are also major tourist attractions in the eastern part of the region.

Tourism in the region focuses on heritage, wine and food, recreational assets and nature-based touring.

The historic town of Beechworth is a major attraction and a popular rural-residential location, given its proximity to employment opportunities in Albury, Wodonga and Wangaratta. Rutherglen has a unique connection to wine making and wine tourism.

The advanced manufacturing sector in the Hunter-based industries continues to develop new products and processes in many traditional industries including medical, energy, food, wine and supply chains using smart technologies.

The region is also home to a multi-million dollar thoroughbred horse breeding industry, world-class wineries and national parks, and its river estuaries are the largest oyster producers in the state.

Tasmania’s manufacturing sector is globally competitive in food and beverage processing, smart technologies, forestry, maritime and defence.

The Manufacturing Centre of Excellence in Burnie on Tasmania’s north west coast is home to facilities, training spaces and equipment designed to develop workers’ and students’ skills in advanced manufacturing.

The maritime precinct near Hobart is home to a number of globally competitive shipbuilders and product manufacturers.
In the northwest is one of the country’s most significant heavy vehicle manufacturing clusters. Vehicles manufactured here are generally highly specialised products for the global underground, surface mining and rail maintenance industries.

Hobart is also Australia’s Antarctic Gateway to the great frozen continent in the south. Tasmania has strong manufacturing services and research and policy capability in Antarctic related activities. Hobart Port has a dedicated Antarctic and cruise terminal and houses the Australian Antarctic Division’s world class Cargo and Biosecurity Centre. The state is a leader in skills and research development in remote and extreme environment health care.

The Northern Rivers has the highest number of creative practitioners and businesses outside our capital cities with the greatest concentration of these located in Lismore. This rich and diverse cultural profile places Lismore at the heart of the region's creative industries.

Via online artist portfolios, Northern Rivers Creative combats geographical, socio-economic and cultural barriers inhibiting emerging and established creatives from accessing national and international audiences. The resource will provide artistic excellence to potential markets while offering viable, sustainable work opportunities and professional development for our growing creative community.

Northern Rivers Creative celebrates the region’s thriving creative diversity, featuring a range of categories including creative services, visual arts, design, Indigenous arts, literature, music, performance and screen.

The Riverina stretches from the foothills of the Snowy Mountains in the east through to the plains of Hay and Carrathool in the west. The Murrumbidgee River flows through the region, providing water to the irrigation areas around Griffith and Leeton. The regional city of Wagga Wagga is positioned on the main Sydney-Melbourne railway line, equally close to both state capitals.

The Riverina region occupies a large southern segment of the Murray Darling Basin. This system of rivers drains 15% of the Australian continent. It covers parts of the states of Queensland, Victoria, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia.

The Basin is characterised generally by low rainfall, light soils, hot summers and cool winters, with long sunlight hours. Where irrigation water can be delivered the soils and long sunlight hours ensure fast and luxuriant growth of crops.

The Riverina region enjoys unique advantages because of the combination of varied soil types and land forms, together with a warm climate, and an ample supply of water for irrigation. This has helped create an economy based on agricultural production, food and beverage manufacturing, and wood processing.

Manufacturing, Agriculture Forestry & Fishing are the two key drivers of the Riverina’s economy.

The Wide Bay Burnett region is one of the most diverse regions in Queensland, boasting outstanding natural assets and resources, agricultural land, and unique townships.

The region’s agriculture, renewable energy, manufacturing and tourism industries are key contributors to Queensland’s economy.

A strong creative economy makes our city a great place to live through the attraction and retention of a skilled workforce, creative tourism, export and trade of local culture, more enterprise, greater expression and social connection, and city pride.

With a high concentration of people, infrastructure, business and investment, cities are the engine rooms of the new global economy. The power of a city’s success lies in the ease of doing business – exchanging ideas, products and services – and the presence of opportunity.

Given access to the right conditions and opportunities, creative talent and enterprises will thrive, generating exciting and profitable new products and services that stimulate the economy and grow the city’s profile

An emerging area of entrepreneurship in Wollongong is the growing start-up community, which often involves tech-based businesses. One way this has been encouraged is through programs such as iAccelerate. There has also been a less structured formation of new tech-based businesses that are choosing to locate in Wollongong, develop their ideas and solutions and then export them to the world.

Wollongong is already home to several successful ICT based companies that have an established presence in national and international markets and UOW is obviously a recognised producer of IT talent. ICT companies located in Wollongong include NEC, Accelo, iTree, Easy Agile and Internetrix.

The talent pool of graduates represents an ongoing source of future employees for the tech sector. For example, in 2016 more than half (57%) of young graduates in this field who were living in Wollongong in 2011 were working elsewhere by 2016 as they left Wollongong to gain employment elsewhere.

AIB was established to convert business opportunities and leads to profitable commercial outcomes.

Many opportunities have been identified by AIB for B2B engagements in key industry sectors including Agribusiness, information and Communication technologies, Education and Skills Development, Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals, Smart manufacturing, Infrastructures, Hydrogen and Renewable Energy and Critical Mineral.

AIB has been specifically created to effectively focus on opportunities that achieve B2B commercial outcomes, generating financial benefits for all parties, individuals and corporate to acquire financial benefits.

AIB is prepared to work with any individual or organisation that wishes to go for a profitable deal. Protocols for business engagement have been prepared to accept this opportunity to create personal and corporate wealth through profitable business outcomes.

AIB will focus in taking it to the next level from promotion and engagement to converting deals. AIB will be used to manage the deal flow and end to end facilitation of business between India and Australia and improve brand image of both countries, in both countries.

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The need for aggressive climate action is clear and compelling. While confronting, this is a challenge that we must embrace with a sense of hope rather than despair. Tasmania, with its negative emissions profile and renewable energy assets, can be an example to the world on climate action, but much more does need to be done.

Tasmania has an impressive record on climate action� In 2015, we were the first Australian jurisdiction to achieve net zero emissions and we have achieved this commitment four years in a row.

The latest figures show we have the lowest emissions per person in the country.

Our State is now 100 per cent self- sufficient in renewable energy and continues to lead Australia’s transition to a low emissions economy. This includes a commitment to generate 200 per cent of our energy needs from renewable energy by 2040, and fast-tracking a renewable hydrogen industry in Tasmania.

Tasmania is also fortunate to have world-class climate science capability and detailed climate change projections to inform our decisions.
Despite our strong advantages, Tasmania is not immune to the impacts of a changing climate. In the past five years we have seen extreme flooding, fires, drought, biosecurity concerns and marine heatwaves� These events have had an environmental, economic and social impact on government, business, communities and households.

As the name suggests, Capricorn Region lies on the Tropic of Capricorn, spanning from the National Parks of the Central Highlands that border Outback Queensland to the coastline of the Southern Great Barrier Reef and the green continental islands of the Keppel Group. At the heart of the region is the city of Rockhampton, ‘Rocky’ to the locals and those who know it well – it’s Australia’s ‘Beef Capital’.

Rockhampton lies on the banks of the mighty Fitzroy River, the second largest river system in Australia. The city’s wealth of historic buildings, best illustrated in the riverside precinct of Quay Street, reflects the age of the gold rushes in the 19th century centred at nearby Mt Morgan and followed by the cattle grazing industry. Visitors can get a taste of the local steaks and a rodeo at one of Rocky’s heritage pubs. Be sure to also visit the limestone caverns of Capricorn Caves.

On the nearby Capricorn Coast holiday havens start with the welcoming seaside town of Yeppoon. On the northern edges of this coast is Byfield National Park, rich in birdlife while to the south lie small beachside communities, a marina and attractions including a crocodile farm. Floating on the horizon, Great Keppel Island is a tropical island destination with 17 glorious beaches and a choice of holiday options.

Inland you can discover real gems – sapphires and other precious stones – amidst the prospectors’ claims in the Gemfields. Head south to include Carnarvon National Park and the walking path through Carnarvon Gorge with its steep escarpments, pockets of rainforest, ancient Aboriginal rock art and native fauna.