Business Centres

Canberra offers great facilities for business, including conference centres, business precincts that link specific business sectors and the services that support them, and business premises that provide flexibility and support for new businesses.

Canberra Business Event Centre External Link

Situated in the most beautiful location in Canberra with panoramic views across Lake Burley-Griffin, the Canberra Business Event Centre provides conference and exhibition facilities equipped with cutting edge technology.

Developed as a venue to showcase the ACT and region's strengths to international and interstate delegations and business visitors, this is a venue that facilitates business opportunities.

Canberra Technology Park (CTP) External Link

CTP is a dedicated business park aimed at information technology and related businesses. They seek to attract tenants involved in multimedia, film, TV and sound production, computer animation, telecommunications, software development, hardware manufacture, integration and systems management, e-business, web development and the internet. CTP offers a range of affordable and realistically valued commercial space, aimed at improving your bottom line.

CTP’s primary goal is to encourage the grouping of ICT business, particularly those related to 3D computer animation, multimedia, programming, on-line training and applications and software development, so that tenants can interact and benefit from this co-location.

Lighthouse—Unleashing Your Innovation Potential External Link

The Lighthouse Business Innovation Centre is a new joint initiative between the ACT Government and the Canberra private sector. The centre is being positioned to:

  • attract both high-growth business and early stage investment opportunities from existing local industry, research institutions and individual entrepreneurs in ICT and creative design sectors.
  • provide the 'heavy lifting' advisory service function required for the development of 'investment-ready' companies. The 'heavy lifting' being addressed through servicing the specific needs of individual enterprises to make them viable business and investment prospects.
  • act as a focal point, or hub, in partnership with other institutional players in the ACT innovation system, to provide a continuum of services that can assist at every stage of business development.