Gilmore Engineers Pty Ltd – e3k has been a RRA since 2001 (registered number 34439).

Other advantages of working with a Registered Research Agency are:

1. A company which spends less than $20,000 on eligible R&D in any year is entitled to the full concession if the R&D is performed by a Registered Research Agency, provided that the RRA is not an associate of the company.

2. A company is able to claim, in advance, payments made to the RRA for contract R&D projects to be performed in the following twelve months.

Federal Government support is provide in the form of business assistance through a network of private sector COMET business advisers. Merit based financial assistance is available to successful applicants.

COMET assistance is available for up to 2 years.

Grants of up to $120,000.00 excluding GST are available.

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Gilmore Engineers Pty Ltd has been granted AusIndustry Registered Research Agency status with the Industry Research and Development Board, for the purpose of performing contracted Research and Development, effective 30th January 2001. Our registration number is 34439.

Companies incorporated in Australia who contract complying R&D to Gilmore Engineers will nominally be entitled to the full 125% tax concession now available. No minimum threshold of expenditure applies, and further benefits may apply, including the 175% premium tax concession, if eligible.

Visit www.ausindustry.gov.au for further information of R&D Tax Concessions.

Our client - Joinlox won the 2008 Invention of the Year on the ABC TV show New Inventors.

Our client - Biolytix was an episode winner on the ABC TV show New Inventors with their Joinlox technology.

Our client - Sed Ex Home Brewing appeared on the ABC TV show New Inventors.

The Business Acumen article, Cheers, for clean green beers, explains how e3k helped Queensland entrepreneurs Brett and Joanne Shellcot to develop a winning technology that will solve a problem familiar to brewers and drinkers of home-brewed products.

Our client - FLAT Pty Ltd was an episode winner on the ABC TV show New Inventors and also won the People’s Choice Award.

The Business Acumen article, e3k helps turn tables stable, explains how e3k was chosen following an Australia-wide search for an appropriate development consultancy.

Our client - FLAT Pty Ltd won an “Excellence Award” in the “Innovations and Inventions” Category of the 2006 Engineering Excellence Awards, Sydney Division, Engineers Australia.

The Business Acumen article, e3k helps turn tables stable, explains how e3k developed many new and more advanced systems which were later integrated into further intellectual property lodged by Flat.

e3k designed a foot force sensor used in training Olympic kayakers. See the full story in our Newsletter. The team of Andrew Trim and Daniel Collins gained a silver medal in the Men’s K1 500 metre event, and Katrin Borchert in the Women’s K1-500 metre event gained a bronze medal.

e3k was awarded an Engineering Excellence Award by Engineers Australia for this product.