MLA’s capability building initiatives include:
- Developing industry innovation capability within partnering companies
- Investigating or designing innovation and business models, feasibility studies and other activities
- Building leadership capability across the supply chain
- Encouraging innovation capacity development and staff retention of the Australian red meat workforce.
MLA's Innovation Capability Building sub program
MLA invests in the following four streams (product groups) to deliver the sub program objectives.
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The Co-Innovation program supports leading Australian red meat value chains to fast-track their innovation and growth strategies. The program is customised to match the specific business and innovation goals of participating enterprises and their value chains with a deliberate focus on partners who share MLA strategic innovation focus areas.
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Initiatives within the ‘co-funded innovation resources’ product group includes the Collaborative Co-Innovation program, which includes:
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MLA recognises that investing in the development of young people is crucial to building and retaining a skilled and capable future workforce. |
Initiatives within the ‘industry professional development’ product group include:
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| To increase practical farming knowledge, management and industry leadership skills through a variety of scholarship types. |
Initiatives within the ‘industry leadership and academic research’ product group include:
Scholarships will be supported within the following programs:
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New business ventures will identify and accelerate the commercialisation of transformative innovations that create unique and defendable competitive positions for the Australian red meat sector. The Producer Entrepreneurship program recognises that the future prosperity of industry requires new ways of thinking and of approaching challenges. Producer Entrepreneurship accelerates producer innovation capability by recognising the importance of producer-led innovation and provides customised support models. |
Initiatives within the ‘new business ventures and producer entrepreneurship’ product group include:
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Case studies
Founders of the Herd XL app, Megan and Andrew Miller, explain how the app enables producers to compare scenarios when buying, selling and trading cattle.
Australian Country Choice developed its data capture, integration and reporting systems, connecting every segment of the value chain to transform how it makes decisions across 1.75 million hectares of land, three feedlots and a Brisbane processing facility.
Hewitt Foods partners to drive sustainable performance among suppliers. Meat and Livestock Australia alongside Hewitt Pastoral launched Food for the Future. This project will engage hundreds of producers nationally to review current and emerging trends within the meat and livestock supply chain to implement future-driven, sustainable practices.
Hear how this purpose-built innovation centre with its ultra-modern commercial kitchen, R&D facilities, dry ageing cabinets and multi-format dining is taking industry stakeholders on an immersive journey from paddock-to-plate.
Capability building modules
The following self-guided modules have been designed to assist Co-Innovation managers succeed in their roles.
- Innovation mindset module
- Leading from behind module
- Building a business case module
- Project management module
- Pitching to win module
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