I&I NSW is dedicated to the continuing development of cooperative alliances with universities, CRCs and other state and national agencies and Catchment Management Authorities. These arrangements enhance the pace of innovation and achieve economies in the use of human and capital resources for research.
(Right: The EH Graham Centre for Agricultural Innovation)

Cooperative Research Centres

I&I NSW is (or has been a recent) partner in the CRCs listed below:

• Australian Seafood CRC
• Beef Genetic Technologies, Cooperative Research Centre for, (Beef CRC)
• Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre
• Cotton Catchment Communities Cooperative Research Centre (Cotton CRC)
• CRC for Forestry
• Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Centre
• Internationally Competitive Pork Industry Cooperative Research Centre (Pork CRC)
• Invasive Animals Cooperative Research Centre (IA CRC)
• Irrigation Futures, Cooperative Research Centre for (CRC IF)
• Landscape, Environments and Mineral Exploration, Cooperative Research Centre for, (LEME CRC)
• National Plant Biosecurity, Cooperative Research Centre for, (CRCNPB)
• Predictive Mineral Discovery Cooperative Research Centre (pmd*CRC)
• Sheep Industry Innovation Cooperative Research Centre (Sheep CRC)
• Sustainable Aquaculture of Finfish Cooperative Research Centre (Aquafin CRC)  
• Value Added Wheat, Cooperative Research Centre for, (VAWCRC)
• Viticulture, Cooperative Research Centre for

Science alliances

Alliance arrangements exist with a number of state agencies, commercial partners and universities. The alliances NSW DPI is currently involved in are outlined below:

• Australian Cotton Research Institute, Narrabri
• Animal Genetics and Breeding Unit, Armidale
• Broken Hill Exploration Initiative
• Centre for Coastal Agricultural Landscapes, Wollongbar
• Chair of Dairy Science, Camden
• EH Graham Centre for Agricultural Innovation, Wagga Wagga
• Enterprise Grain Australia, Wagga Wagga, Tamworth and Toowoomba
• National Centre for Rural Greenhouse Gas Research
• National Wine and Grape Industry Centre, Wagga Wagga
• NSW Agricultural Genomics Centre
• NSW Centre for Animal and Plant Biosecurity (University of Sydney)
• Primary Industries Innovation Centre, Armidale, Tamworth and Glen Innes

Contracted research

NSW DPI has 11 industry corporation investment partners, with major investment also from the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, Biofirst, Natural Heritage Trust, National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality (NAP), and the Murray-Darling Basin Commission.