{"id":332911,"date":"2026-03-11T05:17:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T05:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/332911\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T05:17:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T05:17:16","slug":"innovation-booster-grant-2026-applications-now-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/332911\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation Booster Grant 2026 applications now open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p xml:lang=\"EN-GB\">Applications are now open for the 2026 round of the Innovation Booster Grant (IBG).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The IBG is a competitive Western Australian Government grant, funded through the New Industries and Innovation Fund (NIIF).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The grant 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.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Eligible applicants can receive funding of up to $50,000 to help access the support services and expertise required to refine, test, protect, validate and certify their innovation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Targeted support is available for regional, female, and First Nations founded businesses.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Since 2021, the IBG has awarded just over $6.6million to support almost 200 local innovation projects.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Applications close on Monday 30 March 2026, 4pm (AWST).\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Applications are now open for the 2026 round of the Innovation Booster Grant (IBG).\u00a0\u00a0 The IBG is a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[114,293,85,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-332911","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entrepreneurship","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-entrepreneurship","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}