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• The Australian government launched the Additive Manufacturing Cooperative Research Centre (AMCRC) last year with a commitment of nearly AU$60 million (~$40 million) in public funding, with the AMCRC’s partners from...
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The Australian government launched the Additive Manufacturing Cooperative Research Centre (AMCRC) last year with a commitment of nearly AU$60 million (~$40 million) in public funding, with the AMCRC’s partners from academia and the private sector pledging to add AU$200 million in investments over the following seven years. The AMCRC will leverage AM to benefit the full gamut of strategically critical sectors that comprise Australia’s domestic industrial base, using a matched-funding system to channel resources to businesses capable of executing R&D projects over two-to-five years.
Now, a year after that initial funding announcement, the AMCRC has announced the first five research projects in its CORE program (which I assume stands for ‘Cooperative Research’). With just under AU$2 million