Innovation Booster Grant (IBG)

Innovation Booster Grant (IBG) is sponsored by Western Australian Government (New Industries and Innovation Fund). The Innovation Booster Grant supports early-stage founders, innovation-driven small businesses, and startups in Western Australia to refine, test, and validate new products or services. This includes resources for protecting intellectual property and gaining certifications.

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Last updated: 10 August 2026 Congratulations to the 2026 recipients of the Innovation Booster Grant! Learn more via the 2026 recipients' webpage . The Innovation Booster Grant (IBG) is a competitive Western Australian Government grant, funded through the $40 million New Industries and Innovation Fund (2025-29).

The IBG is administered by the Department of Energy and Economic Diversification (DEED) and targets early-stage founders, innovation-driven small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs), and startups in Western Australia to improve capability and commercialise innovative projects. Startups and innovative SMEs face barriers to successfully execute their ideas due to a lack of resources.

They lack the necessary capital to access the support services and expertise required to refine, test, protect, validate, and certify their innovation. The objective of the IBG is to enable startups and innovative SMEs to progress their innovations through access to support services and expertise that improve the capability of the business to validate or commercialise a product.

The New Industries and Innovation Fund is the primary tool for the State to deliver against Western Australia's Innovation Strategy and is a key enabler of the State’s economic development framework Diversify WA . Meet the 2026 recipients of the Innovation Booster Grant. Learn more about applying for an Innovation Booster Grant.

Learn more about the past recipients of the Innovation Booster Grant.

The IBG is designed to assist businesses to: develop or enhance products or services that are commercially ready, or to reach a commercial ready stage; test, validate, or certify their Minimum Viable Product (MVP); procure specialist consultancy services to assist with Intellectual Property, marketing or commercialisation support; and/or address a specific technical problem that the business cannot solve themselves, or for which the solution is not readily available.

Intended outcomes of the program are that: businesses have greater access to capital to engage support services and experts businesses access support services, enabling them to address a technical problem, progressing their innovation towards commercialisation businesses develop new to market products that are commercially ready the number of commercially ready innovations in WA increases, and Western Australia is a location of choice for product testing and development.

Meet the 2026 recipients of the Innovation Booster Grant A grant for early-stage founders, innovation-driven SMEs, and startups to strengthen capability and commercialise innovative projects.

New Industries and Innovation Fund: Innovation Booster Grant Innovation Booster Grant: 2026 Recipients Innovation Booster Grant: Past Recipients New Industries and Innovation Fund (NIIF) WA Innovators of the Year Department of Energy and Economic Diversification Department of Energy and Economic Diversification Level 11, 1 William Street, Perth WA 6000 Facebook share (Opens in a new tab/window) X (Opens in a new tab/window) LinkedIn (Opens in a new tab/window) Have a question or want to report a problem?

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