Grant Award View - GA201736

This project will provide a gateway for future investors in joint Australian-Japanese technological-industrial-scientific-academic ventures, by creating a publicly available bilingual Japanese-English database of 2018-2019-2020 funding applications received by the Foundation for Australia-Japan Studies (https://www.fajs.org/). In Year One, the project will create a pilot database using approximately two dozen FAJS applications. Completion of this pilot database at the end of Year One will comprise an important project milestone. In Year Two, the project will expand the database to include a large number of the approximately 300 FAJS applications. On completion of the expanded database, the project will hold promotional events in Sydney and Tokyo. These will bring together potential funders from the financial sector as well as representatives from academia, industry, and governments. This project aims ultimately to make available to potentially interested investors in Australia and in Japan (and perhaps elsewhere), a range of fundable, accessible and distinctly Japanese-Australian collaborative projects. In so doing, the project seeks to increase awareness of both countries' close relationship and strengthen the economic and strategic partnership by encouraging further expansion of their ever-increasing close bilateral ties.