What your regional centre can do for you

Regional centres can help when:

• you are a business operator, or a person seeking to open a business in your region
• you want to expand or move into one of our regional centre areas to pursue a business opportunity or to invest.

Your local regional centre can provide you with information about:

• starting up a new business
• operating and growing a business
• making a business more innovative, productive or resilient
• maximising export and investment opportunities
• advancing major projects.

The Department contributes to regional growth by:

• supporting sustainable regional development
• promoting regions as a place to invest, work and live
• influencing and coordinating activities to attract and retain the population
• actively pursuing strong partnerships with key industry sectors
• fostering a positive business environment for business and industry
• aggressively seeking to identify major new opportunities to assist the State's development
• strengthening the State's export performance.

This is achieved through a state-wide network of regional centres that provide strategic regional leadership and regional development services to support the creation of a globally competitive Queensland.

Your local regional centre can provide information about:

• starting up a new business
• export and investment opportunities
• building and improving business
• advancing major projects
• identifying joint venture opportunities.

The Department also supports business development through a range of online products and services including:

• Business development website
Fact sheets
• Business tender information
• Smart Skills
• Business Resource Centre 
• Business benchmarking
• Online business diagnostics 
• SmartLicence Online
• Government Business Information Service (GOBiS)
• Workshops and seminars

You can contact the Department by calling the Business Hotline 1300 363 711.