As a team of passionate advocates for action we enjoy working on implementing initiatives to capture economic opportunities and stimulate business growth – in addition to doing the research. For example we have completed dozens of small and medium business support facility and ‘business incubator’ feasibility studies across Australia and overseas. The most recent of these was our feasibility and business planning work for a pilot scale food processing facility in northeastern Tasmania. We have also gone well beyond studies, however, and in the early 2000s we won funding from the Federal Government and set up and ran a high technology business commercialisation facility (Epicorp) in the ACT which provided intensive business support and a substantial investment seed fund. Uni of Tassie, CSIRO and Defence.
