Problem
Begin with a real material, production or market constraint.
Innovation
Innovation is the applied work of improving products, processes, materials, business models and production systems—not novelty for its own sake.
Trial / process / applied capability
R&IResearch + innovation area
Convert knowledge into usable capability.
Projects in this area should leave durable capability in Australia: stronger partnerships, specialist skills, infrastructure access, tested methods, prototypes, market routes or standards participation.
Report basisMapping Australia’s Crafts Sector 2026 · Sections 11–12; Recommendations 12, 16 and 17.
Trial
Prototype, test and refine with practitioners and technical partners.
Adoption
A result matters when skills, supply, equipment and demand can sustain it.