Advanced Manufacturing grants in China
Explore Advanced Manufacturing grants for companies in China. This list brings together funding for additive manufacturing, automation, digital factories and industrial innovation from Chinese innovation agencies, research funders and foundations, international programs open to applicants in China, and competitions any company can enter, with the deadline, award size and eligibility on every listing. Grants aimed at Advanced Manufacturing in China come first.
Showing 1-24 of 69 grants
Hangzhou 115 Overseas Intelligence Introduction Program
🇨🇳Hangzhou HR & Social Security Bureau · China
Supports Hangzhou enterprises recruiting overseas experts with salary and project subsidies for advisory work and knowledge transfer.
Hangzhou High-Level Talent Classification & Subsidy
🇨🇳Hangzhou HR & Social Security Bureau · China
Provides housing subsidies, healthcare access, and startup support for high-level talent across professional sectors.
Hi-Tech Enterprise R&D Subsidy — Claim Year
🇨🇳STIC-SZ · China
Supports Shenzhen high-tech firms through STIC HTE subsidy to recover part of prior innovation spend.
National Key R&D Programs
🇨🇳MOST · China
Offers Chinese organizations support through National Key programs for mission oriented technology projects moving toward practical use.
Overseas Talent Pioneer Park Support
🇨🇳ZGCAC · China
Funds Zhongguancun founder and returnee teams with pioneer support that improves innovation capacity and scale.
Shanghai Innovation Voucher — Scheme
🇨🇳STCSM · China
Supports Shanghai small firms through automatic innovation vouchers to offset a share of development costs.
Support Fund for Entrepreneurship Service and Talent Development
🇨🇳ZGCAC · China
Funds technology teams in Zhongguancun parks and talent programs through reimbursements and one-off innovation support in startups.
HNTE Certification
🇨🇳MOST Torch Center · China
Offers tax preference support for qualifying high and new technology enterprises in China.
NSFC General Program
🇨🇳NSFC · China
Supports broad foundational science across major disciplines through principal investigator grants.
Creating the World Competition
🇨🇳Hangzhou HR & Social Security Bureau · China
Administers Hangzhou's Creating the World competition for overseas returnees and foreign nationals launching technology ventures.
NSFC Research Fund for International Scientists
🇨🇳NSFC · China
Supports international researchers at Chinese host institutions with research grants for deep collaboration.
Shanghai Sci-Tech Little Giant Project
🇨🇳STCSM · China
Supports Shanghai high-tech firms through the Little Giant programme via post-development innovation subsidy.
CDB Innovation Sector Loans
🇨🇳CDB · China
Provides China policy loans for large strategic-emerging sectors such as semiconductors, clean energy, and advanced manufacturing.
Hangzhou 131 Young Talent Plan — Selection
🇨🇳Hangzhou HR & Social Security Bureau · China
Offers Hangzhou researchers and professionals annual recognition stipends focused on capability development and employer support.
R&D Super-Deduction Tax Incentive
🇨🇳STA · China
Provides Chinese companies a tax deduction framework for qualifying innovation spend through annual tax filing.
SME Development Fund of China
🇨🇳MOF+MIIT · China
Funds Chinese innovative small and medium-sized enterprises via commitments to specialist funds managed by MIIT-linked structures.
EIT Digital Open Innovation Factory
28DIGITAL · European Union
Funds European digital startups at TRL 4-5 seeking co-development with industry partners through EIT Digital's open innovation matching platform.
Start Up Energy Transition Award 2027
dena · Germany
Awards €10,000 to the winning start-up in each of five energy-transition categories.
Measurement Science and Engineering (MSE) Research Grant Programs
NIST · United States
Funds NIST partnership research across metrology, nanotechnology, AI and advanced manufacturing, open to almost any non-federal organisation except individuals.
Minnesota Angel Tax Credit
🇺🇸MN DEED · United States
Funds Minnesota angel investors through a refundable credit for investments in high-technology startups.
SPIE Startup Challenge
SPIE · United States
Pays up to $10,000 to photonics startups pitching at Photonics West 2027.
Creative Destruction Lab (CDL)/27 Cohort
Creative Destruction Lab · Canada
Offers Creative Destruction Lab cohorts with mentorship, customer discovery, and venture readiness to help startups scale.
ACHEMA Start-up Award
DECHEMA · Germany
Awards 15,000 Euro plus exhibition space and mentoring to the winning early-stage company at the ACHEMA Start-up Award 2027, for new ventures in chemistry, process engineering or biotechnology.
AI for Industry Challenge
Intrinsic · United States
Pays $180,000 in cash prizes to developer and robotics teams that train an AI model to solve a real electronics-assembly cable-handling problem on Intrinsic's platform.