Categoria: funding
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Improving risk capital funding in Canada
Canadian entrepreneurs regularly cite a lack of financing options as a reason for Canada’s mediocre innovation performance. Certainly part of the problem has to do with the organization of risk capital markets. Canada’s public venture exchange (TSX-V) is biased toward junior resource listings. Canadian venture capital firms often lack the scale and expertise to fund…
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Innovation: get details about Innovate UK funding competitions
Innovate UK runs the following funding competitions. Each competition has a different application process and eligibility criteria. Catalysts Overview You can get £150,000 to £10 million from Innovate UK to run a research and development project. You can use this funding to test and develop an innovative idea and make it successful. Your project can…
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Brexit Is Quietly Strangling Science
Illustration: Jack Sachs By Simon Parkin A Nobel Prize winning physicist considers taking his research elsewhere, while applications from foreign researchers have plummeted. For many years Andre Geim was best known for designing an experiment that looked more like a parlor trick than a serious piece of scientific research. One Friday evening, in a moment…
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A Finep dá uma guinada: “Vamos financiar a demanda de equipamentos de Telecom”.
A Finep vai, pela primeira vez, em sua história, financiar a demanda por equipamentos. E começa essa iniciativa por produtos de TIC e telecom. Márcio Girão, diretor de Inovação, detalha aqui o programa, que foi anunciado este ano na Abrint. A instituição tem mais de R$ 600 milhões para emprestar em condições bem vantajosas a…
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Funding to develop and grow projects innovation in Canada
The Government of Canada Funded primarily by the Government of Canada, Grand Challenges Canada is dedicated to supporting Bold Ideas with Big Impact®. www.canada.ca Global Affairs Canada Grand Challenges Canada’s programs are primarily undertaken with the financial support of the Government of Canada provided through Global Affairs Canada. www.international.gc.ca Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) The…
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Protagonistas: programa que busca acelerar resultados está com vagas abertas
Muitos empreendedores se sentem sozinhos, sem saber qual prioridade devem tomar, inseguros de como resolver algumas questões chave para o futuro dos negócios. E foi para auxiliar e dar suporte aos empreendedores que buscam superar as dificuldades e atingir resultados expressivos é que os empreendedores professores Marcelo Pimenta (Menta90) e Paola Tucunduva reuniram competências para…
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Creative industries to benefit from £80m innovation fund
Cultural organisations and universities are being encouraged to work together as part of an £80 million programme designed to address issues within the creative industries. The scheme is seeking to come up with new ways of working or create new services that tackle problem areas such as skills shortages, equality and diversity, and finance models.…
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Taiwan’s digital nation plan
Taiwan’s ICT industry is expected to grow 3.96 percent in 2017 on the back of rising demand for high-tech devices from end-users. Realizing the need for digital transformation, Taiwan has recently launched its 8-years Digital Nation Plan, dubbed DIGI+, to develop its high-tech economy and propel digitalization among companies. eGov Innovation speaks with Mr. Francis Liang,…
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UK Plots Post-Brexit Tech Investment Fund
Start-up Funding UK will provide funding for startups to boost British tech firms seeking to expand to the world stage following Brexit. The British government is proposing a new venture capital fund in order to help nurture innovative firms based in this country. Called the National Investment Fund, the government says it will help…
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Public-private funding initiatives proposed to support long term investment in innovative UK businesses
The plans, which are open to consultation envisage a new public-private partnership arrangement whereby both public funds and money from institutional investors is used to help UK businesses achieve their growth potential. The government said that its investment fund “would likely need to be on equal terms with private investors” to comply with EU…
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