STEP — Productive Innovation — Digital & Biotech (Inovação Produtiva — Digital e Biotecnologia)
Supports companies investing in critical digital, deep-tech and biotechnology manufacturing in eligible Portuguese regions.
STEP Inovacao Produtiva Digital e Biotecnologia is a competitive grant call administered by IAPMEI — Agencia para a Competitividade e Inovacao — under the COMPETE 2030 programme and the European Union Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform (STEP). IAPMEI is Portugal's national SME competitiveness and innovation agency, responsible for co-managing EU structural funds for Portuguese enterprises.…
Manufacturing of digital technologies (including those advancing EU Digital Decade 2030 targets), deep-tech innovation, and biotechnologies including EU-listed critical medicines and their components, by SMEs in Norte, Centro, Alentejo, and Algarve.
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