Small Technologies Cluster Ltd

Small Technology Cluster (STC), a privately owned and operated business incubator for advanced technology companies. STC is also the contracted deliverer of the innovative and highly successful Victorian State Government’s Small Technology Industry Uptake Program (STIUP).

STC is internationally recognised as a centre of excellence in the translation of microtechnology, nanotechnology and biotechnology. The cluster has extensive experience in the delivery of elaborately manufactured goods through the alignment of accessible skills, technologies, infrastructure, capabilities and business engagement within research, manufacturing and commercialisation. It is also Australia’s foremost generator of business and innovative manufacturing activity based on small-scale technologies. Other tenants at STC have businesses working in microengineering, cleantech, drug delivery, microelectronic design and genetic testing. STC’s model for cluster development has been studied by many regions around the world, leading to a growing collaboration with clusters in San Diego, North Carolina, The Netherlands, Germany and the UK.