IMPORTANT GTI UPDATE: Policy Guidelines on Priority Sectors

Agri-food and AgTech

• Agricultural big data analytics;
• Commercialisation experience within the industry;
• Future proteins for human and animal consumption;
• Food and beverage technology;
• Individual technologies or a combination of technologies related to farm equipment, weather, seed optimisation, fertiliser and crop inputs, and irrigation;
• Precision measurement and/or application of farm inputs such as nitrogen and pesticides, gene editing, nanomaterials and synthetic biology;
• Predictive technologies around planting times, climatic forecasting and crop cycles; and
• Wearable technology, including ear-tag trackers for animal management.

Energy

• Advanced visualisation technology (e.g. sensors);
• Artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies;
• Automation and robotics (e.g. smart sorting technologies for recycling);
• Beneficiation technologies (i.e. improving the economic value of ore);
• Recycling technology (e.g. feedstock recycling or E-waste processing);
• Traceability technologies, e.g. experience with sophisticated material trading systems that make materialsources more transparent to consumers; and
• Expertise with the following fields in the sector:
• Hydrogen technology;
• Clean technologies, renewables and hybrids (including solar and wind power);
• Battery/energy storage design (specialised, grid-scale and precursors for batteries);
• Bioenergy and biofuels;
• Micro-grid design; and
• Supporting the transition to net zero carbon emissions.

Health industries

• Antimicrobial resistance;
• Biochemistry and cell biology;
• Biostatistician;
• Biotechnology;
• Biomedicine and Bioengineering;
• Cell and gene therapies – genomics;
• Clinical trials;
• Digital health;
• Health economists;
• Implantable and wearable devices (e.g. 3D printed custom devices, bionics and prosthetics);
• Infectious disease;
• Medical devices;
• Medical physicist;
• Microbiology and immunology;
• Nanotechnology and genomics;
• Neuroscience and neurology;
• Pharmaceuticals;
• Precision medicine;
• Point of care diagnostics; and
• Regenerative medicine.

Defence, Advanced Manufacturing and Space

Defence

• Augmented and virtual reality;
• Cyber Security;
• Expertise in military equipment acquisition, sustainment and evaluation;
• Robotics and automation; and
• Sensors and analytics.

Advanced manufacturing

• Advanced materials;
• Additive manufacturing (3D printing), materials resilience and repair;
• Artificial intelligence and machine learning;
• Automation & Robotics;
• Bio-manufacturing and biological integration;
• Biotechnologies;
• Digital design and rapid prototyping;
• Digitisation and automation;
• Nano-manufacturing and micro-manufacturing;
• Precision manufacturing; and
• Sustainable manufacturing and life cycle engineering.

Space

• Aviation in space
• Experience that would be of benefit to the National Civil Space Priority Areas:
  • Position, navigation and timing (PNT) infrastructure (global navigation satellite systems);
  • Earth observation technology and services;
  • Communications technologies and services (lasers for data communication, quantum technologies forsecure communication, and hybrid radio and optical communications);
  • Space situational awareness and debris monitoring (including space traffic management);
  • Leapfrog R&D, which includes new rocket technology, high-tech materials, space medicine, syntheticbiology, quantum communications, in-orbit servicing and optical wireless communication technologies;
  • Robotics and automation on Earth and in space;
  • Access to space, which includes international space missions and launch activity;
• Engagement with international space and astronomy regulatory bodies.