Any kind of Grant to pay PHD graduates to do research is more of a money splash to employ some Uni Grads and give them something to do for 3 years or so.
I wouldnt be expecting any type of fast track action from this. At least a year before any kind of peep would be heard from them IMO.
The QLD government wanted to spend 24 million or so paying PHD graduates to do a thesis on what type of buisness could help the economy in QLD.
Just saying but I wrote out a detailed explanation with numerous fully detailed ideas to the Government for free. Yet they responded saying the 24 million was to only employ PHD grads only for 3 years part time.
They wouldnt listen to a word of my ideas based on 30 years real World experience. They wanted an answer in 3 years time for 24 million from PHD grads doing it part time. I gave them an answer in 3 hours. And offered it for free.