Innovation

Exploratory/Developmental Grants (R21) | Grants & Funding

NIH mechanism supporting high-risk, high-reward exploratory projects with limited preliminary data across biomedical and behavioral sciences.

Amount: Up to $275,000 in direct costs over 2 years (no more than $200,000 in any year) Deadline: Feb 16, 2025 Location: United States

Export Innovation Grants Costa Rica 2025: How to Secure up to USD 120,000 from PROCOMER

Costa Rica punches well above its weight in global trade.

Amount: USD 120,000 Deadline: Oct 31, 2025 Location: Costa Rica

Fuel Your Swedish Startup: The Almi Innovation Loan Explained

Secure flexible financing from SEK 50,000 to SEK 10 million for your innovative Swedish startup through Almi's specialized loan programs.

Type: Loan Amount: SEK 50,000 to SEK 10,000,000 Deadline: Rolling Location: Sweden

Get £25,000–£2 Million for UK R&D: How to Prepare a Winning Innovate UK Smart Grants Application (2025)

If you run an ambitious UK company and you want public funding to push an R&D project toward market, the Innovate UK Smart Grants are the prize most teams quietly covet.

Amount: £25,000 - £2 million Deadline: Sep 17, 2025 Location: United Kingdom

Get €50,000 to €3 Million for Innovation in France: A Practical Guide to Bpifrance Servir lAvenir Grants

If you run a French SME and you want to move an idea off the whiteboard and into a production line, a pilot plant, or a validated market offer, Bpifrance’s “Servir l’Avenir” instruments should be on your short list.

Amount: €50,000 - €3 million Deadline: Dec 31, 2025 Location: France

Get EUR 20–200M in Blended Finance: EIB Global Gateway Fund (GGF) Guide

If you run an investment-grade public authority, utility, or corporate and you’re planning a big infrastructure project that connects people, services, or markets across continents, the European Investment Bank’s role in the Global Gateway Fun...

Amount: EUR €20 million–€200 million per project Deadline: Oct 10, 2025 Location: Africa, Europe and Indo-Pacific

Get Up to ₪5,000,000 for Israeli Tech R&D: A Practical Guide to the Israel Innovation Authority R&D Fund

If you are building tech in Israel — from a garage-like deep tech lab to a small team pushing a medical device toward clinical trials — the Israel Innovation Authority (IIA) R&D Fund is the grant program you should be paying attention to.

Amount: ILS ₪5,000,000 matching grant Deadline: Dec 31, 2025 Location: Israel

Get Up to 35% Back on R&D Costs: Canada SR&ED Tax Incentive Guide (2025)

If your company spends time solving technical puzzles — the kind that require experiments, prototypes, or repeated trial-and-error — the SR&ED (Scientific Research and Experimental Development) program can put real cash back into your projects.

Amount: Refundable and non-refundable tax credits up to 35% of eligible expenditures for Canadian-controlled private corporations Deadline: Dec 31, 2025 Location: Canada

Global Health Innovation Grants 2025: How to Win Up to 1.1 Million from Grand Challenges

If you have a bold idea that could change how the world tackles disease, malnutrition, or poverty, this is one of the few funding programs that truly wants to hear from you.

Amount: Up to $100,000 (initial) with potential follow-on up to $1,000,000 Deadline: May 21, 2025 Location: Global

Global Innovation Fund Grants and Risk Capital: How to Raise 50000 to 15 Million for High Impact Social Innovation

If you are building something that could measurably improve life for people in low and middle income countries, the Global Innovation Fund (GIF) is one of the few places in the world that might back you from scrappy pilot to large scale roll out.

Amount: Funding from $50,000 grants to $15 million risk capital Deadline: May 15, 2025 Location: Global