What's Available

The R&D grant can provide assistance to support:

'Industrial Research' - the planned research or critical investigation aimed at the acquisition of new knowledge and skills for developing new products, processes or services or for bringing about a significant improvement in existing products, processes or services.

'Experimental Development' - the acquiring, combining, shaping and using existing scientific, technological, business and other relevant knowledge and skills for the purpose of producing plans and arrangements or designs for new, altered or significantly improved products, processes or services.

The activities may comprise producing drafts, drawings, plans and other documentation, provided that they are not intended for commercial use (it does not include the routine or periodic changes made to products, production lines, manufacturing processes, existing services and other operations in progress, even if such changes may represent improvements).