UNE SMART Region Incubator.
Connect to an ecosystem of opportunity.
The UNE SRI is a connected community of founders and innovators who share a deep commitment to seeing new and existing enterprises flourish in the New England North West region of NSW.
As a university-led business incubator, we support innovation across the New England North West by connecting founders, researchers, school and university students, mentors, experts, investors, government and business partners. Through collaboration we help deliver new products and services to market. The UNE SRI works across the region and has physical locations in Moree, Tamworth and Armidale and coming soon to Narrabri. We are focussed on benefits to our community, value diversity of ideas, and are open and inclusive. Whilst our strengths lie in agriculture, health, environment and creative industries, we also embrace the education, IT, finance, legal, and manufacturing sectors. Get in touch.
UNE SRI strengths
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Our future relies on smart science and smart technology to sustain our food and fibre production. Learn more
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Health and wellbeing of our regional communities will transform health outcomes through innovation and collaborations. Learn more
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Exploring opportunities for new environmental services in a carbon hungry landscape and emerging financial markets. Learn more
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Regional economies are strengthened by creative startups who can deliver design solutions; visualise new products and services; communicate unique visions and script, code and perform. Learn more
Locations
Armidale / NOVA
Tamworth / PEEL HOUSE
Moree / SOCIAL CO
Narrabri / THE EXCHANGE
SRI Founders are literally inventing the future for regional NSW. They promise job growth and opportunity, but most importantly, they prove to the next generation that sustainable economic growth comes out of new ideas. Learn more about the SRI community of Founders in IMPACT 2023.
Our founders
Founders grow skills, knowledge and networks whilst being supported within an ecosystem of opportunities. Founders are bringing to market solutions for a range of national and global customers. Founders come from diverse backgrounds, bringing different industry experience, and they share an ambition to grow enterprise within regional NSW. Founders join the UNE SRI come to work hard, build smart, fail well and pivot fast.
Join us
If you have a startup idea or a growing startup and would like to join a community of founders, contact one of our team or submit an online application. Each month we meet with new businesses to learn more. Similar to an investor’s pitch, this pitch gives you the opportunity to present your startup and the support you require to grow. To help you prepare for this pitch you may like to use the UNE SRI Lean Canvas Module.
NOVA Armidale
NOVA is open and anyone can book a space
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