About
Scottish Enterprise is Scotland's national economic development agency. It helps ambitious businesses to innovate and scale, supporting economic transformation across Scotland. Using its global reach and networks, Scottish Enterprise attracts inward investment and enables Scottish companies to export and enter new markets. The organization provides comprehensive support services including business strategy development, funding and grants, export assistance, sustainability initiatives, and guidance on energy transition opportunities.
Funding Opportunities
Capital Grant
The capital grant is a discretionary grant aimed at encouraging capital investment and wage growth to deliver a step change in Scotland's economy. If you've got a project involving capital expenditure, the grant could provide support to help with project costs. Scottish Enterprise is looking to support projects that deliver against its focus on economic transformation, particularly around accelerating the energy transition, scaling innovation, and boosting capital investment. Different levels of funding are available, depending on the size of your business. The level of support offered depends on how much support your project needs and on the economic benefits of your project. Projects are expected to last between 6 and 36 months and must involve capital expenditure, be financially viable, mainly funded by the private sector, and demonstrate the need for grant funding to progress.
Research and Development (R&D) Grants
Scottish Enterprise's R&D grants support companies looking to research and develop new products, processes, or services, or significantly improve existing ones. The program offers financial support for innovative projects that improve business competitiveness, encourage further R&D activity, and benefit the Scottish economy. The grants focus on economic transformation priorities including creating an internationally competitive energy transition industry, scaling innovation strengths into high-growth industries, and driving capital investment for productivity improvements. Support is available for both independent company projects and collaborative consortiums of two to six companies.
SMART: SCOTLAND Grant
The SMART: SCOTLAND grant is one of Scottish Enterprise's research and development (R&D) grants that aims to support high-risk, highly ambitious projects. It provides support to conduct feasibility studies for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) based in Scotland, and supports activities that have a commercial endpoint. The grant helps businesses show their idea could work in the real world through technically focused feasibility studies. The business must own any intellectual property (IP) generated from the project. The program is looking for projects that fit with economic transformation priorities, including creating an internationally competitive energy transition industry in Scotland, driving capital investment to deliver a step-change in Scotland's productivity, and scaling the impact of Scotland's innovation strengths into high-growth industries of the future such as space, industrial biotech, life sciences (human health), fintech, and critical technologies like quantum, photonics, and semiconductors.
At a Glance
- Total Funding Opportunities
- 3
- Active Now
- 3
- Source Domain
- scottish-enterprise.com
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