A multi-million dollar expansion at AgriBio, an Australian bioscience facility in Bundoora, has just been completed — boosting biosecurity research and offering a new innovation hub for AgTech startups.
Spanning across 1600 square meters, the space is based at the Victorian Government and La Trobe University joint AgriBio Centre for AgriBioscience – with the new funding enabling the site to operate at full capacity.
The $7.5 million fit out includes a laboratory and office facilities for up to 90 staff and startup businesses. Up to four innovative startups will be given space in the expansion to help fast-track research and innovation outcomes from Agriculture Victoria to industry.
The first start up to be established will be SmartSense Agtech — a digital sensing AgTech business that will focus on rapidly improving digital technologies used across a range of key agricultural sectors including dairy, horticulture and grains.
Read the complete article at www.vic.gov.au.
