The Private Sector Pathways (PSP) Program supports innovative small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) based in Queensland to collaborate with corporate partners to develop commercialisation opportunities.

This Private Sector Pathways (PSP) Challenge seeks to partner with innovative Queensland based organisations with practical and scalable solutions to strengthen waste management practices and reduce environmental impacts across ecotourism destinations within Queensland.

The owner of this challenge is the Tourism Division within the Department of the Environment, Tourism, Science and Innovation (DETSI). Through this challenge, the department is seeking to partner with organisations that can strengthen waste management solutions and practices, supporting sustainable ecotourism outcomes and making Queensland a world-leader in ecotourism.

The department encourages solutions which seek to address waste challenges, in whole or in part, across a broad spectrum including, but not limited to, the potential for managing hard and/or human waste, incorporating closed loop solutions, those which consider climate and weather resilience, and/or turn waste into other resource or energy opportunities, as examples.

Corporate eligibility 

• Organisations must have an office in Queensland
• Be a legal entity and hold an active ABN or Australian Registered Body Number
• Corporate pays tax in Australia and employs staff in Queensland
• Ideally operates within one of the priority industry sectors - advanced manufacturing, hydrogen, bio-futures, biomedical, defence, aerospace, space, resource recovery and mining technology
• Have obtained internal approval to make the application, including approval to co-fund all project costs not covered by financial assistance provided through the program
• Have the financial ability to deliver the project.

Applicant eligibility

• Queensland-registered ABN
• Registered for GST (at time of contract execution)
• Be an established Queensland-based startup or small to medium enterprise (SME) with a full-time equivalent (FTE) employee count below 200
• Applicants must have a product - being developed in Queensland - which is at, or beyond, the minimum viable product (MVP) stage
• Applicants who have had previous commercial contracts from the participating corporate are not eligible to apply. The PSP program intends to provide new opportunities for applicants to work with participating corporates.

• Email: partnerships2@detsi.qld.gov.au