Advanced Manufacturing grants in Ireland

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Covers 80% of a €3,000 cyber security review for Irish businesses.

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Supports Irish small businesses with innovation vouchers for feasibility studies prototypes audits or new product and service development.

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Administers Ireland innovation tax credit, allowing qualifying companies to claim expanded relief for innovation activity.

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Offers founders over €40,000 in equity-free support, plus a €15,000 stipend in phase two.

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Grants Irish businesses up to €150,000 to develop and test new market entry strategies.

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Funds third-level researchers up to €100,000 to move research toward market readiness.

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Pays for up to €1,750 toward ten sessions with an experienced business mentor.

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Grants Irish SMEs up to €35,000 to hire an external strategy consultant.

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Supports UCD researchers launching commercial ventures based on university intellectual property.

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Funds venture managers for Irish-focused seed and later-stage funds through Enterprise Ireland-backed capital commitments.

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Funds NIST partnership research across metrology, nanotechnology, AI and advanced manufacturing, open to almost any non-federal organisation except individuals.

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Funds European companies and organisations developing pilot, demonstration, or best-practice projects in climate, clean energy, environment, or biodiversity.

Pays up to $10,000 to photonics startups pitching at Photonics West 2027.

Awards €10,000 to the winning start-up in each of five energy-transition categories.

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

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.

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.

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

Awards equity-free cash prizes and strategic investment access to ConTech startups pitching to a consortium of ten construction-industry corporate venture arms.

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Funds global teams developing innovations in protein, lipids, packaging, and manufacturing that reduce the ex-factory unit cost of ready-to-use therapeutic food by at least 30%.

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Funds global teams developing diagnostic devices and screening tools that cost approximately $1 per test or near-zero incremental cost per person screened for deployment in low-income countries.

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Pays a 100,000-euro equity-free grand prize to early-stage deep tech startups globally.

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Funds researchers at companies including startups doing R&D aimed at commercialization under JST's Global Startup Campus initiative.

Runs a nine-month, government-backed accelerator that helps foreign-founded startups enter and scale in Korea, with prize money for the top 20 teams and further commercialisation grants for the top 8.