Photonics grants

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Funds UK business-led consortia developing supply chains for quantum enabled sensing and positioning, navigation and timing technologies.

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Funds teams delivering high impact prototypes with milestone support for Silicon Carbide Packaging Prize Competition in energy systems, semiconductors, and photonics.

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Funds Scottish SMEs conducting high-risk feasibility studies to prove out novel technologies through Scottish Enterprise R&D grants.

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Pays photonics startups up to $10,000 for pitching live at SPIE Photonics West.

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Supports invited large-scale United Kingdom particle, astronomy, and nuclear projects through STFC Projects Peer Review Panel, a route for complex funding.

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Funds EU development of the next generation of infrared-detector readout chips so Europe isn't dependent on non-EU sensor supply chains.

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Funds R&D projects at German SMEs and research institutions with rates up to 100%.

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Funds UK businesses doing joint R&D in specific technology areas with Swiss partners through Innovate UK bilateral competition rounds.

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Pays up to $200,000 in cash prizes to U.S. small businesses developing quantum sensor and photonics technology.

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Supports United Kingdom university and deep tech teams by bridging research outputs to follow-on funding.

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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.

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Awards women founders and co-founders across three prize categories, from EUR 20,000 up to EUR 100,000, for leading breakthrough European innovations.