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Performance + Precision = Next-Level

Potential

We’re redefining the future of sport through science, technology and elite collaboration. Whether it’s preventing injury, enhancing recovery or giving athletes a competitive edge, our precinct is where sport meets innovation, powered by digital twins, biomechanics, smart tech and elite partnerships. 

If you’re building the next big thing in sport performance, rehab, data science or wearables, this is where you grow it. 

Innovation & Research Strengths

Our sportstech innovation is grounded in high-performance science and real-world application. We work with elite sport partners to test, refine and translate technologies that improve performance and reduce injury.

Current focus areas include:

  • Biomechanical modelling and predictive analytics
  • Digital athlete simulations and twin technology
  • Performance tracking and injury prevention
  • AI-powered diagnostics and rehab systems
  • Nutrition, physiology and environmental training
Football player looking at tech on his phone

Global Industry & Research Connections

Innovation thrives through collaboration

We work with game-changers in sport, performance and media to bring new ideas to market: 

Australian Sports Technologies Network

Co-leading the Sportstech Gold Coast Growth Plan

Southport Sharks

Trialling technologies including smartphone-based concussion apps

Myriad Studios

Partner in content innovation and immersive tech for sport

Get in touch to partner with our sportstech network

From Concept to Commercialisation

We don’t just support innovation. We help launch it.

Whether you’re building a wearable, rehab tool or data platform, we help bring your sports innovation to market, from concept to commercial success.

  • Proof of Concept & Early Validation

    At GCHKP, SportsTech companies gain access to a dynamic, commercially focused environment to refine, prototype, and validate innovations across sport, health, and performance. We offer:

    • Access to Griffith PRECISE for co-design, prototyping, and biomechanical validation
    • Elite athlete testing and evaluation at Griffith’s accredited Sport and Exercise Science Labs
    • Commercialisation support through Griffith Enterprise, including IP, licensing, and investor engagement
    • Links to accelerators like NextGen, LuminaX, and AmplifyTech via the Gold Coast Innovation Hub and QLD AI Hub (Health Node)
    • Early-stage mentorship, seed funding, and multidisciplinary collaboration
    • User testing with clinicians, allied health professionals, and athlete populations
    • Shared lab and workshop spaces for rapid iteration
    • Guidance on regulatory pathways, usability testing, and market positioning
    • Access to research grants, commercial pilot opportunities, and strategic partnerships

    At GCHKP, you’ll move from concept to functional prototype faster, smarter, and ready for real-world impact.

    Let's explore your next step
  • Athlete/User testing & Pilot Studies

    We help SportsTech companies move beyond prototypes and validate technologies in real-world sport and rehab settings. We offer:

    • Access to athlete cohorts and clinical populations for pilot testing and performance benchmarking
    • Use of Griffith’s accredited Sport and Exercise Science Labs for advanced physiological and biomechanical assessments
    • Simulation-based validation via the Clinical Education & Simulation Centre for workflow integration and procedure refinement
    • Usability and human factors testing with athletes, coaches, and allied health professionals
    • Support with pilot study design, ethics preparation, and data collection
    • Technical and analytical support for real-world performance and recovery metrics
    • Co-design and optimisation through Griffith PRECISE’s motion, gait, and neuromuscular testing labs
    • Commercialisation support to translate pilot outcomes into investment, marketing, or scale-up pathways
    • Advice on market validation strategies and procurement readiness
    • Connections to sports organisations, health networks, and industry partners

    We help you gather meaningful evidence, refine usability, and position your innovation for scale.

    Let's explore your next step
  • Compliance, Ethics & Safety Validation

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    We help SportsTech innovators embed safety, ethics, and compliance from the start, building trust and readiness for scale. We offer:

    • Support for ethics submissions aligned with national research guidelines
    • Access to simulated clinical and training environments via the Clinical Education & Simulation Centre (CESC) for early usability and safety validation
    • Guidance on human factors, data privacy, and risk mitigation
    • Regulatory awareness for therapeutic goods, wearables, and data-driven platforms
    • Connections to academic and legal experts to assess data use, health claims, and athlete monitoring
    • Ethical comparative testing and benchmarking to inform product positioning
    • Structured feedback mechanisms from users and evaluators
    • Documentation support for validation processes to strengthen grant, investor, and procurement submissions
    • Access to ethics committees and specialist advisors to flag clinical or legal risks early
    • Assistance with protocols for insurance, liability, and commercial contracting

    We ensure your innovation is safe, responsible, and built for long-term success.

    Let's explore your next step
  • Scaling & Commercial Readiness

    We help SportsTech companies finalise, validate, and scale their innovations for real-world impact. We offer:

    • Access to Griffith PRECISE for advanced prototyping, engineering, and usability refinement
    • Support for product iteration and durability testing across use cases
    • Co-design workshops and user feedback with athletes, clinicians, and end users
    • Guidance on regulatory preparation, including TGA pathways for health or rehab-integrated tech
    • Manufacturing readiness support via local engineering and fabrication partners
    • Assistance with data infrastructure, software integration, and AI platform scaling
    • Go-to-market strategy via Griffith Enterprise, covering pricing, licensing, and investor readiness
    • Connections to business growth programs, export support, and industry mentors
    • Real-world and simulated product validation for final-stage testing
    • Help preparing technical documentation, positioning, and evidence for investment and procurement

    We ensure your SportsTech solution is robust, scalable, and commercially ready, built for athletes, health systems, and global markets.

    Let’s explore your next step
  • Market Access & Industry Integration

    We help SportsTech companies turn validated products into widely adopted solutions across elite sport, health, rehab, and consumer markets. We offer:

    • Connections to sporting organisations, health providers, and athlete networks for adoption and integration
    • Access to the Gold Coast Health Innovation Office and allied health networks for procurement and rehab program pathways
    • Export and trade support via Trade & Investment Queensland and INVEST Gold Coast
    • Links to MTPConnect QLD Hub and Life Sciences Queensland for commercialisation programs and regulatory support
    • Real-world testbeds to evaluate uptake, satisfaction, and commercial viability
    • Support with value proposition development and health economics for procurement and payer engagement
    • Access to trade missions, pitch events, and investor showcases
    • Public-private partnership support across sport, defence, education, and health
    • Tailored go-to-market strategies for elite, rehab, and consumer markets
    • Help secure long-term partnerships for sustainable growth

    We help you scale with confidence, from innovation to global adoption.

    Let's explore your next step

At GCHKP, SportsTech companies gain access to a dynamic, commercially focused environment to refine, prototype, and validate innovations across sport, health, and performance. We offer:

  • Access to Griffith PRECISE for co-design, prototyping, and biomechanical validation
  • Elite athlete testing and evaluation at Griffith’s accredited Sport and Exercise Science Labs
  • Commercialisation support through Griffith Enterprise, including IP, licensing, and investor engagement
  • Links to accelerators like NextGen, LuminaX, and AmplifyTech via the Gold Coast Innovation Hub and QLD AI Hub (Health Node)
  • Early-stage mentorship, seed funding, and multidisciplinary collaboration
  • User testing with clinicians, allied health professionals, and athlete populations
  • Shared lab and workshop spaces for rapid iteration
  • Guidance on regulatory pathways, usability testing, and market positioning
  • Access to research grants, commercial pilot opportunities, and strategic partnerships

At GCHKP, you’ll move from concept to functional prototype faster, smarter, and ready for real-world impact.

Let's explore your next step

We help SportsTech companies move beyond prototypes and validate technologies in real-world sport and rehab settings. We offer:

  • Access to athlete cohorts and clinical populations for pilot testing and performance benchmarking
  • Use of Griffith’s accredited Sport and Exercise Science Labs for advanced physiological and biomechanical assessments
  • Simulation-based validation via the Clinical Education & Simulation Centre for workflow integration and procedure refinement
  • Usability and human factors testing with athletes, coaches, and allied health professionals
  • Support with pilot study design, ethics preparation, and data collection
  • Technical and analytical support for real-world performance and recovery metrics
  • Co-design and optimisation through Griffith PRECISE’s motion, gait, and neuromuscular testing labs
  • Commercialisation support to translate pilot outcomes into investment, marketing, or scale-up pathways
  • Advice on market validation strategies and procurement readiness
  • Connections to sports organisations, health networks, and industry partners

We help you gather meaningful evidence, refine usability, and position your innovation for scale.

Let's explore your next step

Here’s a refined version under 150 words:


We help SportsTech innovators embed safety, ethics, and compliance from the start, building trust and readiness for scale. We offer:

  • Support for ethics submissions aligned with national research guidelines
  • Access to simulated clinical and training environments via the Clinical Education & Simulation Centre (CESC) for early usability and safety validation
  • Guidance on human factors, data privacy, and risk mitigation
  • Regulatory awareness for therapeutic goods, wearables, and data-driven platforms
  • Connections to academic and legal experts to assess data use, health claims, and athlete monitoring
  • Ethical comparative testing and benchmarking to inform product positioning
  • Structured feedback mechanisms from users and evaluators
  • Documentation support for validation processes to strengthen grant, investor, and procurement submissions
  • Access to ethics committees and specialist advisors to flag clinical or legal risks early
  • Assistance with protocols for insurance, liability, and commercial contracting

We ensure your innovation is safe, responsible, and built for long-term success.

Let's explore your next step

We help SportsTech companies finalise, validate, and scale their innovations for real-world impact. We offer:

  • Access to Griffith PRECISE for advanced prototyping, engineering, and usability refinement
  • Support for product iteration and durability testing across use cases
  • Co-design workshops and user feedback with athletes, clinicians, and end users
  • Guidance on regulatory preparation, including TGA pathways for health or rehab-integrated tech
  • Manufacturing readiness support via local engineering and fabrication partners
  • Assistance with data infrastructure, software integration, and AI platform scaling
  • Go-to-market strategy via Griffith Enterprise, covering pricing, licensing, and investor readiness
  • Connections to business growth programs, export support, and industry mentors
  • Real-world and simulated product validation for final-stage testing
  • Help preparing technical documentation, positioning, and evidence for investment and procurement

We ensure your SportsTech solution is robust, scalable, and commercially ready, built for athletes, health systems, and global markets.

Let’s explore your next step

We help SportsTech companies turn validated products into widely adopted solutions across elite sport, health, rehab, and consumer markets. We offer:

  • Connections to sporting organisations, health providers, and athlete networks for adoption and integration
  • Access to the Gold Coast Health Innovation Office and allied health networks for procurement and rehab program pathways
  • Export and trade support via Trade & Investment Queensland and INVEST Gold Coast
  • Links to MTPConnect QLD Hub and Life Sciences Queensland for commercialisation programs and regulatory support
  • Real-world testbeds to evaluate uptake, satisfaction, and commercial viability
  • Support with value proposition development and health economics for procurement and payer engagement
  • Access to trade missions, pitch events, and investor showcases
  • Public-private partnership support across sport, defence, education, and health
  • Tailored go-to-market strategies for elite, rehab, and consumer markets
  • Help secure long-term partnerships for sustainable growth

We help you scale with confidence, from innovation to global adoption.

Let's explore your next step

Purpose-Built Infrastructure

From elite research to startup-ready spaces, our precinct is designed to support every phase of sportstech development. 

  • Cohort Innovation Space – Sport and health startup hub with labs, offices and accelerators 
  • Southport Sharks – Precinct partner supporting live testing and athlete engagement 
  • Griffith University Sport and Research Facilities – Pool, gym, recovery and track spaces for testing and development, dedicated biomechanical testing labs
Get in touch to explore facilities and testing environments

Talent & Workforce Pipeline

We’re shaping the next generation of sport innovators – researchers, data scientists, physiologists, designers and founders. 

  • Griffith’s Exercise and Sport Science programs ranked among Australia’s best 
  • Student placements, R&D internships and startup partnerships 
  • Deep links to elite sport, defence and digital media sectors 
Tap into our future-focused talent pipeline

Gold Coast Advantage

Sport has always lived here. Now, innovation does too.

With sun, sport and a serious innovation agenda, there’s no better place to build sportstech.

  • Access to a community of athletes, clubs and high-performance users
  • A lifestyle that attracts top talent and global partners
  • Co-location with universities, studios, medical hubs and startup labs
  • Government support for sport and tech integration ahead of Brisbane 2032
Gold Coast city skyline

Become part of a growing national

Sports Tech Ecosystem?

GCHKP

Success Stories

Headshot of Professor Paul Clarke, Executive Director of the Institute for Biomedicine and Glycomics, Griffith University

The collaborative environment at the Health and Knowledge Precinct, with its mix of innovators, hospitals and industry, is ideal for translating biomedical discoveries into real-world applications. The new Health and Technology Research Innovation Centre (HATRIC) will enhance this synergy even further.

Paul Clarke – Executive Director of the Institute for Biomedicine and Glycomics (IBG), Griffith University

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Portrait of Estella Rodighiero - CEO, Regional Development Australia Gold Coast Inc

The Gold Coast Health & Knowledge Precinct exemplifies world-class innovation and collaboration, bringing together education, industry, and community to drive meaningful outcomes. With its state-of-the-art facilities and vibrant ecosystem, the Precinct positions the Gold Coast as a global destination for knowledge, discovery, and opportunity.

Estella Rodighiero – CEO, Regional Development Australia Gold Coast Inc

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Ben Howe Director of CoSpaces

The Gold Coast Health and Knowledge Precinct is unlike anywhere else in Australia—bringing together university students, researchers, early-stage founders, mentors, and investors within a vibrant ecosystem backed by state-of-the-art health, education, sport, laboratory, and commercial office facilities. As one of the country’s fastest-growing regions that’s built for entrepreneurs, it’s the ideal place to build, test, and scale impactful innovation at the intersection of health and technology.

Ben Howe – Director, CoSpaces (operators of Cohort Innovation Space)

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Portrait of Hon. Will Hodgman. Chair, Invest Gold Coast

From world-first health technologies to cutting-edge advancements in biotech and AI, GCHKP is cementing the Gold Coast’s status as a global player in the innovation economy. As a proud partner, investment in this precinct exemplifies the power of collaboration between research, industry and government. With world-renowned organisations like Southern RNA and BiVacor calling GCHKP home, the Gold Coast is fast becoming a leader in preventative healthcare. The sector is transforming lives and is one of our region’s most significant contributors to employment and economic growth.

Hon. Will Hodgman – Chair, Invest Gold Coast

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Clare Minahan

Come and experience the ecosystem they’ve dropped themselves into, it’s incredibly powerful because of the people that are coming, the people you have access to, and the athletes you have access to. It’s not just an environment of opportunity, it’s incredibly positive. If you came and experienced that ecosystem, you’d find those two major pillars: access, and a really positive environment.

Clare Minahan – Associate Professor, Griffith University

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