Aerospace grants

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Funds industrial research on next-generation air-ground datalinks, digital voice and using aircraft as weather sensors.

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Funds early-stage Virginia startups through non-dilutive support before financing growth.

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Funds Washington aerospace suppliers through preferential tax frameworks including business tax and sales relief.

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Funds teams building autonomous wildfire sensing and suppression systems for faster emergency response.

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Funds U.S.-based industry, academia, and non-profit organizations flight-testing space technologies on commercial suborbital and orbital vehicles.

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Funds United States researchers mapping video origin from combined visual and audio clues when metadata is absent.

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Supports international aerospace and defense firms in Michigan through local office and market-entry backing.

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Funds U.S. small businesses developing commercialization-focused deep-tech through NASA SBIR Ignite Phase II awards of up to $850,000.

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Supports startups advancing national security technology through a focused two-stage accelerator.

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Supports early national security ventures through a cohort-based acceleration and dual-use marketplace.

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Funds U.S. small businesses developing on-orbit servicing, assembly, and manufacturing technologies through SpaceWERX SBIR/STTR contracts.

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Pays high school students in South Dakota, North Dakota and Minnesota cash prizes and scholarships for their best business idea.

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Backs intellectual property protection activities including patent filing and trademark registration across Hungary.

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Runs Y Combinator Accelerator for early-stage startups with a three-month batch, investment, and mentoring support.

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Gives U.S. small businesses non-dilutive R&D funding for high-risk, high-impact deep-tech across nearly every technical field, from a Phase I award through a larger Phase II award.

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Funds eligible Princeton researchers inventing or applying new research technology through one- or two-year grants.

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Funds Swedish higher education institutions to host international researchers and strengthen global collaboration.

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Pays Dutch SME representative bodies to make their members' employee commuting greener.

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Co-funds R&D projects between a Turkish customer company and an SME supplier, covering 40% of costs.

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Awards University of Toronto-affiliated early-stage founders up to $15,000 CAD for a three-minute pitch, as part of an annual competition with over $100,000 in total prizes.

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Awards University of Toronto-affiliated later-stage founders up to $40,000 CAD for a three-minute pitch, as part of an annual competition with over $100,000 in total prizes.

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Funds partnerships of universities, research institutes and businesses to jointly run doctoral training programmes for early-career researchers.

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Supports HR capability building for Polish enterprises with subsidized coaching and workforce development.

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Pays SMEs a fixed EUR60,000 grant to run a six-month market feasibility project testing whether their innovation can be commercialised in a target country in Africa, the Americas, Asia or Oceania.