CoIN overview
Who is it for?
Large corporate organisations who want to engage with Queensland innovative businesses with the skills, expertise and drive to develop creative solutions to industrial challenges and problems.
Here are some of the corporate partners we’ve worked with:
Key partnership highlights
We have enabled a number of successful partnerships through the Corporate Innovation Network. Read our stories below.
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NRL Magic Round Innovation Partnership
The NRL and DETSI Innovation Division are collaborating on a three-year Innovation Partnership that aims to help the NRL solve some of their pressing challenges through Queensland innovations.
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Frucor Suntory – Pitch event success for drinks manufacturer
Together with Nexefy, we co-funded the team behind some of Australia and New Zealand’s most popular beverage brands – Frucor Suntory – to enhance training and safety.
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Tech innovation to take QSO music experiences across Queensland
Thanks to a Private Sector Pathways Program, Imagine Realities pitched an innovative solution to enhance the Queensland Symphony Orchestra’s (QSO) touring program and its engagement with Queensland schools and regional communities.
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Virtual cardiac rehabilitation program
We are backing home-grown tech businesses to provide real-world solutions to Queensland challenges through a partnership with the Mater Group.
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First Nations historical artefacts: improving provenance accuracy and efficiency
Innovative Queensland-based organisations with a bright idea to improve how First Nations artefacts are identified are being encouraged to apply for a new challenge.
CoIN goals
The Corporate Innovation Network aims to:
- provide networking opportunities between corporate partners, innovative Queensland businesses and research organisations
- diversify corporate procurement and supply chain opportunities for a wide range of Queensland innovative businesses
- deliver improved efficiencies to corporate business processes
- co-fund, de-risk and increase the speed of adoption of new Queensland technologies
- facilitate opportunities with other government support initiatives.
What we provide
We work with corporates to offer several ways of encouraging more innovation, and showcasing and networking the capabilities, technologies and products available in Queensland. Examples of support available to corporate partners include access to:
Our Private Sector Pathways Program:
Provides a streamlined and co-funded open innovation process to solve corporate challenges through solutions generated by proven innovative Queensland businesses.
Events and program activities including:
- corporate innovation networking
- challenge pitch and reverse pitch sessions
- other Queensland Government supported innovation events, conferences and showcases.
Additional support in:
- artificial intelligence
- immersive technologies (XR)
- advanced robotics for manufacturing
- agtech and logistics.
We also have strong connections in regional Queensland and can make introductions or curate activities and events to support engagement by corporates.
Further information
We have accumulated significant knowledge and experience to support corporates to meet their innovation agendas through a community of partnerships and collaboration.
For more information about our Corporate Innovation Network, please contact partnerships2@detsi.qld.gov.au.
Last updated: 19 Jun 2026