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Innovation loans

Explore innovation loans. This directory lists repayable public funding, including low-interest loans, soft loans and repayable advances from development banks, innovation agencies and public investment funds, with the terms, amount and eligibility on every listing.

Showing 169-192 of 206 grants

Scottish EDGE logo
Between cycles

Scottish Scale EDGE

🇬🇧Scottish EDGE · United Kingdom

Supports scaling Scottish technology businesses with hybrid grant-loan funding and growth recognition.

£100K – £200K
Ministero delle Imprese e del Made in Italy logo
Closed

Development Contracts (Contratti di Sviluppo)

🇮🇹MIMIT · Italy

Funds Italian strategic industrial investments in large manufacturing programs and development initiatives.

Advanced ManufacturingEnergy Tech+3
Ministero delle Imprese e del Made in Italy logo
Closed

Innovation Agreements (Accordi per l'Innovazione)

🇮🇹MIMIT · Italy

Offers Italian manufacturing and service firms partnerships to build industrial innovation projects across regions.

Advanced ManufacturingAI+4
€5M – €40M
Bpifrance logo
Closed

IPCEI Industrial Artificial Intelligence Call

🇫🇷Bpifrance · France

Funds French companies and research partners developing industrial AI through grants or recoverable advances.

AI
Banco Português de Fomento logo
Closed

BPF Program — Reconstruction Support (Apoio à Reconstrução)

🇵🇹BPF · Portugal

Funds storm-affected Portuguese businesses with emergency credit and reconstruction support for recovery.

€2.5M
Defence and Security Accelerator logo
Closed

Defence Innovation Loans

🇬🇧DASA · United Kingdom

Invests through United Kingdom Defence Innovation Loans in mature defence innovations to support late-stage commercialization.

DefenseHardware+1
Bpifrance logo
Closed

Eureka France-Corée du Sud

🇫🇷Bpifrance · France

Supports France South Korea collaboration on industrial technology and semiconductors.

SemiconductorsAdvanced Manufacturing+4
€50K – €3M
ALTUM — Latvian Development Finance Institution logo
Closed

For the Development of Innovative Products

🇱🇻ALTUM · Latvia

Funds Latvian companies developing RIS3-priority products with loans paired with principal rebates.

DefenseHardware+2
€1.5M
Information Technology Industry Development Agency logo
Closed

Innovation Clusters Initiative (iCi)

🇪🇬ITIDA · Egypt

Supports Egypt's innovation clusters through grants, loans, and investments linking universities, firms, and entrepreneurship centers.

AICybersecurity+2
Bpifrance logo
Closed

Innovation Competition i (Concours d'innovation i)

🇫🇷Bpifrance · France

Funds innovation projects by French startups and small and medium-sized companies in digital, health, transport, and energy.

AIMedtech+4
Innovate UK logo
Closed

Innovation Loans Round 23

🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom

Funds United Kingdom late-stage ventures with long-term patient government loans.

AIBiotech+8
£100K – £5M
Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency (MSMEDA) logo
Closed

KfW Upper Egypt MSME Programme

🇪🇬MSMEDA · Egypt

Funds business growth in Upper Egypt through a concessional loan and support package with European partner participation.

ALTUM — Latvian Development Finance Institution logo
Closed

Large Investment Loan with Capital Rebate — Round 4

🇱🇻ALTUM · Latvia

Funds strategic research and innovation investments in Latvia with long-horizon financing and rebate support.

PhotonicsAdvanced Materials+6
Ministero delle Imprese e del Made in Italy logo
Closed

New Call: Innovative Machinery (Nuovo bando Macchinari Innovativi)

🇮🇹MIMIT · Italy

Supports southern Italian small and medium-sized enterprises with subsidized grants and soft loans for industrial machinery upgrades.

HardwareIoT & Edge+1
€400K – €3M
NRCan (Natural Resources Canada) logo
Closed

SREPs — Critical Regional Priorities & Indigenous-Led Streams

🇨🇦NRCan · Canada

Supports Canadian clean electricity infrastructure through regional and Indigenous-focused deployment contributions.

Energy TechClimate Tech
National Agency for the Promotion of Research, Technology Development & Innovation (Agencia I+D+i) logo
Closed

Startup TRL 5-6

🇦🇷Agencia I+D+i · Argentina

Funds Argentine technology startups with reimbursable financing for pilot-scale prototype development and scaling readiness.

BiotechAgritech+2
ARS 250K
National Agency for the Promotion of Research, Technology Development & Innovation (Agencia I+D+i) logo
Closed

Startup TRL 7-9

🇦🇷Agencia I+D+i · Argentina

Funds Argentine technology startups with support for operational testing and commercialization readiness in advanced development stages.

BiotechAgritech+2
ARS 500K
Ministero delle Imprese e del Made in Italy logo
Closed

Sustainable Investments 4.0 — Call (Investimenti Sostenibili 4.0 — Bando)

🇮🇹MIMIT · Italy

Funds Italian Mezzogiorno manufacturers scaling Industry 4.0 upgrades in AI, robotics, and automation.

Advanced ManufacturingAI+3
€750K – €5M
TTGV — Technology Development Foundation of Türkiye (Türkiye Teknoloji Geliştirme Vakfı) logo
Closed

TTGV Target Oriented Project (TOP) / Güdümlü Projeler

🇹🇷TTGV · Türkiye

Funds TTGV Target Oriented Project programs for pre-commercial climate technology demonstrations in Türkiye.

Climate TechEnergy Tech+1
Innovate UK logo
Closed

Innovate UK Innovation Loans (Future Economy)

🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom

Offers non-dilutive financing for United Kingdom firms to scale late-stage innovation when standard debt is unavailable.

£100K – £5M
Nacional Financiera logo
Discontinued

Cadenas Productivas

🇲🇽NAFIN · Mexico

Runs a reverse-factoring marketplace that lets Mexican supplier businesses receive early payment on buyer receivables.

Ettevõtluse ja Innovatsiooni Sihtasutus (EIS) logo
Discontinued

Innovation Loan (Innovatsioonilaen)

🇪🇪EIS · Estonia

Offers research teams and institutions for Innovation Loan Continuous in artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and climate technology.

AIBiotech+8
€5M
Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority logo
Discontinued

KEDFA Small Business Loan Program

🇺🇸KEDFA · United States

Provides Kentucky small companies with fixed-rate direct loans for fixed-asset needs linked to job creation.

AgritechAdvanced Manufacturing
$15K – $100K
Khalifa Fund for Enterprise Development logo
Discontinued

Khalifa Fund SME Loan Facility

🇦🇪KFED · United Arab Emirates

Funds Emirati entrepreneurs in Abu Dhabi with interest-free medium-term loans for business development and growth.

Advanced ManufacturingAgritech
AED 150K – AED 3M

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