Semiconductors grants in Belgium

Open

Supports Flemish small businesses attending international trade fairs and niche events.

Open

Supports Flemish researcher mobility through international conferences, workshops, and stays.

Open

Funds PMV Corporate Loans for established Flemish businesses needing senior or mezzanine debt with flexible structures for expansion.

Open

Provides PMV Start Loan support for early companies, independent professionals, and freelancers in Flanders through concessional financing.

Open

Supports Flemish prospecting missions for market exploration beyond the European Economic Area.

Open

Offers Flemish businesses with matched support for short feasibility studies shaping future innovation.

Open

Funds Flemish companies with industrial-research grants for project-driven innovation and applied commercial development.

Between cycles

Funds cross-regional Flemish cooperation by coordinating shared support routes for industrial projects.

Between cycles

Supports postdoctoral research mandates bridging basic research into industrial applications with Flemish valorisation.

Between cycles

Provides Belgium innovators with hands-on guidance for first startup innovation grants with specialist coaching and commercialization planning.

Between cycles

Funds first-time Flemish exporters launching international sales with flat-rate export grants.

Between cycles

Funds Belgian companies with innovation deductions that strengthen spending on new products and services.

Closed

Funds Brussels companies integrating generative AI into their products, services, or internal processes through a feasibility study and proof-of-concept project.

Closed

Supports the VLAIO Innovatieve Bedrijfsnetwerken program that connects Flemish enterprise consortia and co-finances collaborative innovation clusters.

Discontinued

Offers Welvaartsfonds as a recovery support facility for Flemish companies needing mezzanine financing support during stress periods.

Open

Funds innovators from any country developing near-term defence technology prototypes at TRL 6 or 7 through the MOD Defence Innovation Fund.

Open

Funds European digital startups at TRL 4-5 seeking co-development with industry partners through EIT Digital's open innovation matching platform.

Open

Invests in hardware, aerospace, and defense innovation founders through a corporate venture platform tied to Lockheed Martin.

Open

Provides Massachusetts startup teams access to advanced prototyping and fabrication through MIT.nano collaboration.

Between cycles

Funds organisations worldwide developing novel defence and security innovations across any technology area from TRL 1 to TRL 8.

Awards up to $250,000 in Arm technology credit to the winner and $150,000 to the runner-up among early-stage semiconductor startups building Arm-based chip designs worldwide, with automatic consideration for Silicon Catalyst's own incubator.

Gives selected applied-AI startups a live pitch slot at XTC's AI:360 Summit plus investor and partner introductions.

Awards a ¥10 million grand prize to deep-tech startups pitching at Global Startup EXPO 2026.

Pays a ¥10 million grand prize to deep-tech startups from Japan and overseas that pitch cutting-edge, research-rooted technology at Global Startup EXPO 2026 in Osaka.