AS the region’s only small business incubator, part of the North Queensland Small Business Development Centre’s (NQSBDC) role is to foster business collaborations, with a recent result sparking the creation of a product that is expected to slash workshop inefficiency for tradies across Australia.

Little Silicon Valley – the region’s first dedicated Information Technology business incubator – is gearing-up to expand its capability with a new federal government-funded dedicated IT facility on-site and the creation of extra space for additional technologically savvy tenants.