Innovation Collaboration Centre

The Innovation Collaboration Centre (ICC) is a startup incubator based in Adelaide, South Australia, which runs Venture Catalyst Space to help companies grow their businesses in the space industry. It is part of the University of South Australia, and has funded several startups as of 2022^[update].

Innovation Collaboration Centre

Industry	Startup incubator
Headquarters	Adelaide, South Australia
Key people	Jasmine Vreugdenburg (Director)
Parent	University of South Australia
Website	icc.unisa.edu.au

Description

Based in Adelaide,^[1] ICC runs the Venture Catalyst Hi-Tech & Venture Catalyst Space program. The ICC is partly funded and supported by the Government of South Australia, the University of South Australia and South Australian Space Industry Centre.^{[2][3][4][5][6]}

Startups

Some of the startups which have been funded by the ICC include:^[7]

• Ping Services, which was part of the first cohort of the Venture Catalyst Space program in 2018. Ping Services created the Ping Monitor, which measures the health of a wind turbine based on its acoustic signature and sound generated by the turbine blades as they rotate. Ping has since liaised with most of the major wind turbine operators in Australia, Europe and the United States.
• FireFlight, which has received $100,000 from Go2Gov, a South Australian government initiative to work with the South Australian Country Fire Service to fight bushfires.^[8][9]
• Astroport Space Technologies^[10] who were awarded a contract with NASA^{[11][12][13][14]}
• Hex20, which was selected for the "Moon to Mars" initiative feasibility grant by the Australian Space Agency^[15]
• framework.tools,^[16] who received a $10,000 grant from the ICC to develop an all-in-one platform for teams and individuals to manage projects,^[17] sales piplelines, customer relationship management, wikis and custom tools^{[18][19][20][21]} and have received over $135k in funding.

The 2021 Venture Catalyst Space Cohort raised over A$4.6 million.^[22]

•  South Australia portal

See also

• Lot Fourteen
• ThincLab

References

1. StudyAdelaide. "Australian space incubator seeks global startups". StudyAdelaide. Retrieved 8 March 2022.
2. "Venture Catalyst Space". Innovation & Collaboration Centre. Retrieved 8 March 2022.
3. "International startups to relocate to SA for Venture Catalyst Space, Australia's first dedicated space incubator". SmartCompany. 31 March 2021. Retrieved 8 March 2022.
4. "Space startups drawn to SA catalyst program". SASIC. 8 February 2022. Retrieved 8 March 2022.
5. "Venture Catalyst – Innovation & Collaboration Centre – University of South Australia". FIXE. Retrieved 8 March 2022.
6. "Venture Catalyst Space - applications open". Regional Development Australia Eyre Peninsula. 16 September 2021. Retrieved 8 March 2022.
7. "Global startups join Australia's first dedicated space incubator program". The Lead South Australia. 30 March 2021. Retrieved 8 March 2022.
8. "FireFlight to lead Australian-first bushfire mapping trial". Innovation & Collaboration Centre. Retrieved 8 March 2022.
9. "UniSA's Venture Catalyst Space startup, FireFlight Technologies, to feature on Advancing Australia as key national innovator". Innovation & Collaboration Centre. Retrieved 8 March 2022.
10. Aglietti, Guglielmo S. (16 June 2020). "Current Challenges and Opportunities for Space Technologies". Frontiers in Space Technologies. 1: 1. Bibcode:2020FrST....1....1A. doi:10.3389/frspt.2020.00001. ISSN 2673-5075.
11. "Astroport Space Technologies, awarded a NASA Technology Research contract for lunar construction". Innovation & Collaboration Centre. Retrieved 8 March 2022.
12. "Dr. Paul Dare". Advancing Australia. Retrieved 8 March 2022.
13. "Research could help develop the Moon's first construction site". www.utsa.edu. 25 May 2021. Retrieved 8 March 2022.
14. "Astroport Space Technologies, awarded a NASA Technology Research contract for lunar construction". spaceref.com. 21 May 2021. Retrieved 8 March 2022.
15. "Hex20 selected for 'Moon to Mars' grant". Innovation & Collaboration Centre. Retrieved 8 March 2022.
16. "Framework » Framework.tools". Retrieved 8 March 2022.
17. "Framework.tools". FIXE. Retrieved 8 March 2022.
18. "Framework". Innovation & Collaboration Centre. Retrieved 8 March 2022.
19. "Local startups accepted into Venture Catalyst program to kick-start global ventures". Innovation & Collaboration Centre. Retrieved 8 March 2022.
20. "Top Meeting Startups to Follow in 2021".
21. "ICC Startups". Innovation & Collaboration Centre. Retrieved 8 March 2022.
22. "$4.6 million raised by 2021 Venture Catalyst Space cohort". Innovation & Collaboration Centre. Retrieved 8 March 2022.

External links

• Official website