Hardware grants
Explore grants for hardware companies. This directory covers funding for electronics and device development, sensors, embedded systems, prototyping and small-batch production, from innovation agencies, research programs and manufacturers’ partnership schemes, alongside grants open to any sector.
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Precision Inertial Navigation & Positioning On an Integrated Tesseract (PINPOINT)
🇺🇸DARPA · United States
Funds new physics for inertial sensors built to break a decade-long precision plateau.
SBO Strategic Basic Research Projects
🇧🇪FWO · Belgium
Funds strategic basic research across Flemish institutions in AI, biotech, climate, and engineering.
Utilizing Equipment to Study Environmental Extrinsic Factors and Enhance Rigor and Reproducibility of Animal Research (Clinical Trials Not-Allowed)
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds the kit that measures what else is happening to lab animals — light, noise, temperature — because those variables quietly wreck reproducibility.
BRAIN Initiative: Next-Generation Devices for Recording and Modulation in the Human Central Nervous System
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds taking a brain recording or stimulation device from prototype through safety testing and an FDA exemption into a first small clinical study.
BRAIN Initiative: Clinical Studies to Advance Next-Generation Devices for Recording and Modulation in the Human Central Nervous System
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds the small clinical trial that settles a brain device's final design — early feasibility studies, from short procedures to chronic implants.
EUDIS Non-Thematic SME Open Call
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Backs defense innovation by small and medium-sized enterprises and research organizations across EU member states.
CFI Innovation Fund
🇨🇦CFI · Canada
Funds Canadian university research infrastructure through strategic national awards to strengthen real-world implementation.
Clinical Studies to Advance Next-Generation Devices for Recording/Modulation in Human CNS
🇺🇸BRAIN Initiative · United States
Funds human clinical studies of next-generation neural devices through research agreements.
Next-Generation Devices for Recording and Modulation in the Human CNS
🇺🇸BRAIN Initiative · United States
Supports the development of next-generation neural devices for human neuroscience applications through collaborative research.
Continuation of Solicitation for the DOE Office of Science Financial Assistance Program
🇺🇸DOE SC · United States
Supports unsolicited basic research proposals across all Office of Science thematic areas in the United States.
Early Independence: Ernest Rutherford Fellowships 2026
🇬🇧STFC · United Kingdom
A fellowship for early-career researchers building an independent STFC research niche.
ECDI - Dual-Use Drones Innovative Programme
🇪🇺ECDI · European Union
Pays manufacturing SMEs equity-free grants to advance a dual-use drone product by at least one technology readiness level.
Enabling Technologies for Resilient R&D Supply Chains in Quantum Technologies
🇩🇪BMFTR · Germany
Funds German consortia building enabling tech for quantum computing and sensing.
NVIDIA Academic Grant Program
NVIDIA · United States
Provides in-kind GPU compute and hardware to faculty-led research at PhD-granting universities.
Odysseus Programme
🇧🇪FWO · Belgium
Funds internationally focused research talent moving to Flanders with comprehensive support.
Innovative Manufacturing Adoption Fund Stage 1
🇦🇺NSW Government · Australia
Funds NSW manufacturers with $10,000 to $50,000 to investigate adopting advanced manufacturing technology through feasibility studies, pilot projects and technology assessments run by an external consultant.
Japan-UK Joint call for collaborations in Advanced Connectivity Technologies
🇬🇧EPSRC · United Kingdom
Collaborative UK-Japan research in advanced connectivity technologies.
EPSRC Strategic Infrastructure 2026
🇬🇧EPSRC · United Kingdom
Funding for strategic infrastructure and resources to support existing infrastructure.
HNTE Certification
🇨🇳MOST Torch Center · China
Offers tax preference support for qualifying high and new technology enterprises in China.
Future computing paradigms Network Plus
🇬🇧EPSRC · United Kingdom
Build a multidisciplinary network for future computing paradigms.
Advanced Manufacturing Investment Credit — Section 48D — TY2025 / Filed
🇺🇸IRS · United States
Supports United States semiconductor manufacturers by offsetting domestic investments in chipmaking facilities through advanced manufacturing tax credits.
KMU-innovativ — Stichtag
🇩🇪BMFTR · Germany
Funds German small and medium enterprises pursuing high-impact innovation in AI, climate, energy, and built environments.
R&D Tax Credit — Income Tax Credit (Section 41) — TY2025 / Filed
🇺🇸IRS · United States
Supports established United States companies with income tax credits tied to qualified innovation spending.
R&D Tax Credit — QSB Payroll Offset (Section 41) — TY2025 / Filed
🇺🇸IRS · United States
Supports United States small businesses through payroll tax offsets when they fund qualifying innovation activity.