Israel Innovation Authority Bilateral R&D Incentive Program
Funds Israeli technology companies developing or upgrading products with a foreign partner through the Israel Innovation Authority's bilateral R&D grant.
The Bilateral R&D Incentive Program – R&D Fund is run by the Israel Innovation Authority, Israel's government agency for technology funding. It is a grant. The Authority pays its money in parallel with funding that a foreign body — a state, country, province, or city — gives to the foreign partner under a bilateral agreement, so each side funds its own company on the same joint project.
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International, commercialization-directed R&D in all fields of innovation. The company develops a new technology product or significantly upgrades an existing one jointly with a foreign company, with matching support coming from a foreign government body (state, country, province, or city).
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