iAccelerate to build future jobs from Illawarra’s industrial past

Kate McIlwain
Updated July 21 2016 - 8:21am, first published July 20 2016 - 9:00am
Newly-appointed CEO of the centre, Omar Khalifa, says iAccelerate is the first business incubator of its kind in Australia. Picture: Robert Peet.
Newly-appointed CEO of the centre, Omar Khalifa, says iAccelerate is the first business incubator of its kind in Australia. Picture: Robert Peet.

With rusted steel casings, protruding shipping container office pods and an interior which exposes its inner workings, the University of Wollongong’s new iAccelerate Centre looks like something straight out of a Port Kembla shipping yard.

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Kate McIlwain

Kate McIlwain

Journalist

For more than a decade, I've helped the Illawarra Mercury set the news agenda across the region. Currently I'm the paper's health reporter - covering the stories of Illawarra workers and residents in the wake of a global pandemic and at a time where our health systems are stretched to the limit.

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