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INNOVATION
Ongoing innovation is critical to the future prosperity of the industry and, as such, supporting investment in this area is key to the Gardiner Foundation.
Applicants for funding are encouraged to build a business case around innovation that will impact at farm, factory, consumer or community level.
The Foundation actively encourages projects
that demonstrate best practice innovation process. These include:
global networks to avoid duplication of work being completed
overseas; more effective links between science providers and end
users, ensuring intellectual property does not become a barrier to
innovation; and, “open innovation” which allows end users to
collaborate on underpinning innovation thereby using limited funding
with maximum impact.
...to apply
Recent examples of the Foundation’s investment in Innovation are:
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$1m to extend the lactation of dairy cows (Department of Primary Industries)
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$1.5m to improve potable water utilisation and reduce effluent in dairy processing (The University of Melbourne and Department of Primary Industries).
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$700k to cut production costs and improve functionality of milk powder (Dairy Innovation Australia Limited).
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Other investments to use ultrasonics as a novel processing aid, the reduction of bio-films to extend production runs and development of methods which determine the provenance of milk powder (CSIRO Food and Nutritional Sciences).