Charles Sturt University Innovation Hub
Leader of Regional Innovation
Supporting the regions' innovators for over four years, the Charles Sturt University Innovation Hub has a range of initiatives offered across the University's footprint of regional NSW. The Innovation Hubs' programs work to develop ground breakers: from a flicker of an idea to full blown startup phase. The Innovation Hub offers pre-accelerator programs, founder events, innovation and entrepreneurship programs for university and high school students.
Our purpose
The mission of the Innovation Hub is to support the development of the start-up ecosystem and SME business innovation in regional NSW by:
- Supporting human capacity and infrastructure development
- Supporting other regional development, government and business agencies working towards similar goals
- Collaborating with local businesses actively supporting start-ups and SMEs.
The Innovation Hub will achieve these goals through:
- Tailored incubator programs
- Offering specialised innovation programs supporting university and high school students
How to get involved
If you would like to participate in one of our pre-accelerator programs, founder events, innovation and entrepreneurship programs for students, or simply learn more about the Innovation Hub, contact us.
The Founders Collective
The Founders Collective is a warm and supportive community for startup founders, entrepreneurs and business owners, and provides a community to which founders can share, connect, evolve and grow with others who get the rollercoaster journey of the founder.
With the first Founders Collective event taking place in Wagga Wagga in early 2020, the onset of COVID-19 saw the program of events shift to the online space. The Innovation Hub has delivered a number of online and in-person events for business owners, startup founders and entrepreneurs.
Contact: innovate@csu.edu.au for further information.
Events
Join us for our exciting events, that will help you up your business/startup game, sharpen your mind and make you think!
Stan Grant in conversation with leading water advocate and one of Fortune’s 50 greatest leaders in the world, Mina Guli. Click here to watch this thought provoking and inspired video. Available for a limited time only.
What people are saying

The Ready to Launch Program lit that fire in me to reconnect with my ‘why’ and build that into the business model. Also, discovering how to share Visual Dreaming as a story rather than a business, and learning to pitch that in a way that people could understand, was incredibly confidence-building.
Events
Our community
Our team

Ged Bourke
Manager, Innovations Hub
Our Space
Incubator Bookings
For bookings for events, please submit a booking request for hire of the venue using the form below. For further information, please contact innovate@csu.edu.au.