NDIA Disability Innovation Hub

Funding or Partner Organisation: New Organisation (New Fund Source)

Start year: 2016

Summary: The National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) is looking to establish an innovation hub(s) to stimulate entrepreneurship and support innovation in Assistive Technology (AT) services and product design. This proposal will assist the NDIA by doing three things: A) Conducting a review of recent literature and current practice relating to innovation hubs, especially in the areas of adaptive technology and/or disability services, to identify potential models for an innovation hub B) Conducting extensive participant and stakeholder feedback on the options, to systematically gather their input on how a disability innovation hub could work and how they could effectively participate within it. C) Prepare a feasibility study into three options for an innovation hub, drawing on the material from A and B. A final report will be prepared for NDIA, syntheising the ouctomes from all three phases. The project is a collaboration between researchers in the business school (contributing expertise on innovation and disability studies), the Centre for Local Government (contributing expertise on disability service provision and stakeholder engagement) and UTS Industry Hub tenant Northcott Innovation.

FOR Codes: Community Service (excl. Work), Business and Management, Not-for-profit business and management, Disability and functional capacity

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