Technical Development Incentive
Ref: GRT-L262OCGK
Funding Available
Up to £25,000
Northern Ireland
All Sectors
Rolling applications
Grants & Funding
About This Grant
Designed to encourage companies to engage in the innovation activities of product development, process improvement and the identification and protection of intellectual property. The proposed innovative solution must add value by increasing competitiveness.
What Can It Fund?
- Intellectual property protection & exploitation
- product
- service or process development
- variation and improvement
- management systems development & certification
- product and process approval and certification
Eligible Costs
- -External provider costs
- -technical service providers
- -test houses
- -product development consultants
- -certification bodies
- -IP specialists
Ineligible Costs
- -Internal costs
- -training
- -buying or hiring equipment
- -materials purchases
- -labour
Funding Source
Invest Northern Ireland
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