Photonics grants
Explore grants for photonics companies. This directory covers funding for lasers, optics, integrated photonics, imaging and sensing, optical communications and photonic manufacturing, from research councils, innovation agencies and photonics industry programs.
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FIS 3 — Fondo Italiano per la Scienza (Round 3)
🇮🇹MUR · Italy
Supports individual researchers in Italy through frontier basic research awards across major scientific domains.
Flagship Project Call 2026: Resilient and Secure Technologies for Defence and Mobility
🇨🇭Innosuisse · Switzerland
Funds dual-use R&D consortia on defence and mobility resilience technologies.
Innovation Programme — Component 2 (Programme innovation — Volet 2 / Projets mobilisateurs)
🇨🇦IQ · Canada
Funds Quebec for-profit companies leading collaborative R&D projects with universities and research centres to develop innovative products or processes.
International Market Access Grant for Exporters
🇺🇸Ohio Dept of Development · United States
Funds Ohio for-profit businesses carrying out eligible export promotion activities through reimbursement grants.
Invest-NL Direct Financing
🇳🇱Invest-NL · Netherlands
Funds Dutch scale-ups with equity, mezzanine, and venture debt when conventional markets are constrained.
KMU-innovativ: Produktionsforschung
🇩🇪BMFTR · Germany
Funds German SMEs' production-research R&D projects, alone or with partners.
MURI (AFOSR)
🇺🇸AFOSR · United States
Supports multidisciplinary university consortia tackling mission challenges in Air Force research domains.
NIST SBIR Phase I
🇺🇸NIST · United States
Funds U.S. small businesses testing science and technology R&D ideas for NIST mission areas.
NIST SBIR Phase II
🇺🇸NIST · United States
Funds NIST SBIR Phase I awardees continuing science and technology R&D projects into Phase II.
One NC SBIR/STTR Phase I Incentive Funds
🇺🇸NC BSTI · United States
Funds North Carolina small businesses preparing and submitting Phase I SBIR or STTR proposals to federal agencies.
One NC SBIR/STTR Phase I Matching Funds
🇺🇸NC BSTI · United States
Funds North Carolina small businesses that have received a federal SBIR or STTR Phase I award with matching grants to bridge the gap to Phase II.
Open Technology Programme
🇳🇱NWO · Netherlands
Funds Dutch applied technology research in universities and public institutes through collaborative calls.
Patent Box — 10% Corporation Tax Rate on IP Profits
🇬🇧HMRC · United Kingdom
Offers United Kingdom innovation firms an improved tax route on qualifying intellectual property income.
Pre-Seed Investment
🇺🇸Connecticut Innovations · United States
Supports early Connecticut technology firms through matched pre-seed investment that requires private co-investment.
R&D Tax Relief — Merged RDEC (Scheme)
🇬🇧HMRC · United Kingdom
Administers United Kingdom tax-research support claims through HMRC filing workflows connected to corporate innovation activity.
Research Infrastructure
🇩🇰Carlsberg Foundation · Denmark
Funds Danish institutions with laboratory infrastructure and advanced equipment to strengthen real-world implementation.
SME Hightech Call
🇳🇱Holland High Tech · Netherlands
Supports Dutch small and medium high-tech businesses partnering with researchers to build scalable hardware, quantum, and robotic technologies.
STFC Projects Peer Review Panel (PPRP)
🇬🇧STFC · United Kingdom
Supports invited large-scale United Kingdom particle, astronomy, and nuclear projects through STFC Projects Peer Review Panel, a route for complex funding.
Vermont Research and Development Tax Credit
🇺🇸VT Tax · United States
Supports Vermont businesses with innovation tax credits that reduce innovation costs.
DOE SMASH Incubator
🇺🇸DOE · United States
Funds U.S. for-profit organizations and partners developing solar module and non-module hardware through RD&D projects.
IPCEI Advanced Semiconductor Technologies Call
🇫🇷Bpifrance · France
Funds French companies and research partners developing advanced semiconductor technologies through case-by-case state aid.
NASA NIAC Phase II
🇺🇸NASA · United States
Funds researchers and companies advancing early-stage space technology concepts through NASA's Innovative Advanced Concepts Phase II program.
NASA STTR Phase I
🇺🇸NASA STMD · United States
Funds U.S. small businesses and their research institution partners conducting early-stage space technology R&D through NASA's Small Business Technology Transfer program.
Advanced sensor technologies and multimodal sensor integration
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds around five projects, each worth EUR 4 to 6 million, to bring multimodal photonic sensors to market across healthcare, transport and industry.