How CBRIN can work with you?
Partner with innovators to solve complex challenges and drive new solutions. Engage through our Collaborative Innovation Lab to co-design projects with startups and entrepreneurs. Host hackathons and collaboration labs that bring fresh thinking to your organisation's priorities. Connect with CBRIN's 12 partner programs spanning social enterprise, agrifood innovation, craft and design. Sponsor events like First Wednesday Connect or Female Founders to support community development while building your brand. Access Canberra's dense innovation ecosystem, which includes world-class research institutions and a highly educated workforce. Work with our team to design programs that match your corporate innovation goals with community needs.
Why partner with us?
Benefits & outcomes of being a part of CBRIN
Co-Create Solutions with Innovators
Engage through our Collaborative Innovation Lab to co-design projects with startups and entrepreneurs. Host hackathons and collaboration labs that bring fresh thinking to your organisation's challenges. Access diverse perspectives and innovative approaches you won't find internally. Work directly with founders who can move quickly and think differently.
Tap into Canberra's Innovation Ecosystem
Connect with world-class research institutions and a highly educated workforce. Access CBRIN's 12 partner programs spanning social enterprise, agrifood innovation, craft and design. Meet innovators across multiple sectors working on emerging technologies and solutions. Leverage Canberra's dense innovation ecosystem to find partners and collaborators.
Build Brand through Community Support
Sponsor events like First Wednesday Connect or Female Founders to support community development. Align your brand with innovation, entrepreneurship and diversity. Get visibility among founders, investors and decision-makers in Canberra's business community. Demonstrate genuine commitment to building local capability and economic growth.
Design Custom Innovation Programs
Work with our team to create programs that match your corporate innovation goals with community needs. Design initiatives that address your specific challenges while supporting local entrepreneurs. Access expertise in running programs that deliver real outcomes. Build partnerships that create value for both your organisation and the wider community.
Corporations and community metrics
Colaboration efforts
Colaboration between corporations and community that CBRIN has facilitated
19
sectors engaged in collaborative innovation annually (2025 data)
17
Events held for Communities and Corporations annually
536
participants annually in collaborative innovation events (2025 data)
We stimulated collaborations and partnered with those who intended to leverage the innovation community to address complex problems.
Our members
Meet the members of CBRIN
Articles and stories
Find inspiration from .across our innovation eosystem.
AI Colab: Action Cluster Ignition Collab Lab
Participants examined seven key landscape rehydration techniques across a range of contexts throughout the workshop, sharing their experiences and building a group understanding of the high-level issues that need to be addressed.
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ACTNRM Rehydration Collab Lab
Participants examined seven key landscape rehydration techniques across a range of contexts throughout the workshop, sharing their experiences and building a group understanding of the high-level issues that need to be addressed.
Swiss Embassy Innovation and Trust Hackathon
CBRIN partnered with the Embassy of Switzerland to deliver a two-part innovation program exploring the theme of trust and innovation in the modern day.
SpaceHack 2023
Calling earthlings excited by all things space and space technology! CBRIN has teamed up with UNSW Canberra to launch SpaceHack 2023, a 2 day challenge to develop out of this world ideas.
Not-For-Profit Innovation Forum
CBRIN partnered with Hands Across Canberra, the University of Canberra and a coalition of sector, research and government partners to deliver the inaugural Not-for-Profit Collaborative Innovation Forum. The forum brought together community organisations, funders, researchers and innovators to build innovation capability in the NFP sector, with loneliness selected as the first annual challenge theme.
2025 End of Year Message from the CEO
With over 250 events, across all sectors and stages of maturity of firms, close to 10,000 participants in those events, over 20 programs targeting different needs across the ecosystem, CBRIN brings together people to create an environment in which you can access mentors, customers, partners, investors, collaborators, makers, creatives, researchers, students and other talent and connections.
Canberra innovator turns natural waste products into useful home compostable items
In December 2020, ANU Research School of Chemistry PhD student Ashwani Kumar set out to achieve the seemingly impossible.
Jack Cassidy: 10 Weeks Isn't 10 Weeks
This post is about how I’ve grown in my role, what I’ve learned, and why I’m so enthusiastic about embracing change. Spoiler alert: it pays dividends to lean into new experiences and be comfortable with not having all the answers.
What Is Innovation ACT?
InnovationACT is an entrepreneurship competition for students and researchers who are looking to gain experience in the world of business.
Canberra’s OX Rooms joins GRIFFIN Accelerator Program to drive innovation, efficiency, and security in real estate transactions
OX Rooms delivers unprecedented transparency for buying and selling real estate to agents, lawyers, buyers and sellers setting the stage for industry-wide transformation.
The Power of Community in Coworking
Coworking spaces have become thriving communities that encourage innovation, collaboration, and personal growth.
Meet the team: Kate Stevens
Canberra innovation ecosystem recognised at Global Triple E Awards
Connect with the Canberra Innovation Community
2024 End of year CEO message
We create impact together as a collective of entrepreneurs, innovators, business owners, educators, researchers, partners, mentors, investors, government and community organisations.
Phillipa Leggo – Where are they now?
We sat down with Phillipa Leggo, to hear about what has changed since we last interviewed her about the SCOTT LEGGO business.
Fatigue Hack
Fatigue Hack, a 48-hour hackathon organised by CBRIN and the Australian Trucking Association in 2018. Seeking solutions to address and manage fatigue in long-haul drivers, Fatigue Hack brought together nine teams to tackle the challenge.
Events
Upcoming events
First Wednesday Connect March 2026
- 4 March 2026
Book Launch: Handbook of Innovation Ecosystems | John H. Howard
- 8 April 2026
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ACET Workshop 1: Electrification
- 19 March 2026
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ACET Zero-Emission-Transport Hackathon
- 2 April 2026
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ACET Workshop 2: Grid Resilience & Peak Demand Management
- 23 April 2026
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ACET Workshop 3: Gas Transition
- 16 June 2026
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ACET Workshop 4: Circular Economy
- 11 August 2026
Programs
Creating opportunities for corporations as well as community organisations through our ongoing programs.
Bringing diverse groups of people together to solve complex issues.
Annual event showcasing Canberra's innovation community and emerging ventures.
Teams of innovators led by expert mentors competing to solve real-world challenges
FWC is a regular monthly networking event that activates the ACT innovation ecosystem.
A bi-monthly event dedicated to empowering and inspiring female entrepreneurs in Canberra.
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Growing and consolidating the ACT's energy innovation ecosystem
