From sport tech to non-alcoholic wine, the ACT has the highest percentage of new start-ups and small businesses out of any state and territory in Australia.
abc.net.au/news/canberra-the-start-up-capital-of-australia/101794946Just outside Canberra's CBD, hidden behind a real estate agency and an Ampol service station, is sport tech company Gymaware's ten-person office.
"They used their engineering skills to come up with a product that could accurately give coaches the ability to do what the researchers were saying would help the athletes," Ms Lawton said. "By measuring and training to velocity you're actually changing how the athlete adapts in these situations and you're sort of mirroring what the demands of their sport are."
"Canberra is a great place to have a business because you sort of have a distilled excellence, you can touch in on places like the AIS, CSIRO, Canberra Innovation Network, University of Canberra, ANU, they're all great places to be able to gain that sort of knowledge to help you take your business to the next level," Ms Lawton said.
"You have lots of people trying new things and also having the awareness that if the customers or the market are not accepting that product, they can start another one."That culture helped turn Christina Delay and Alan Tse's idea for a small business into reality within a year.
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