EXIST Transfer of Research
Funds German research teams for up to 36 months to spin their work into a startup.
EXIST Transfer of Research is a grant from Germany's Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWE) that funds research teams at German universities and non-university research institutions, for up to 36 months and up to 250,000 euros, to take a proven idea — such as a working lab demonstrator — through the further high-risk, cost-intensive development needed to reach market readiness and…
The programme targets research teams at German universities and non-university research institutions who have already proven their idea works -- a functional lab demonstrator, for example -- and need further high-risk, cost-intensive development to reach market readiness. It funds the technical and business-building work needed to turn that research into a company, not the underlying research itself.
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