SMART: SCOTLAND grants for feasibility studies for SMEs

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 and is only available to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) based in Scotland, supporting activities that have a commercial endpoint. The grant can support feasibility studies that help to show your idea could work in the real world. Your business will need to own any intellectual property (IP) generated from your project. The SMART grant aims to support priority areas for economic transformation including creating an internationally competitive energy transition industry in Scotland, scaling the impact of Scotland's innovation strengths into high-growth industries of the future, and driving capital investment to deliver a step-change in Scotland's productivity. Studies must last between 6 and 18 months, and grants can support up to 70% of the eligible costs for a small enterprise and up to 60% of the eligible costs for a medium enterprise, with a maximum grant of £100,000.