Administered by: Enterprise Ireland

What is it?: R&D drives economic growth and progress, spurs innovation and is critical for companies to stay competitive. With R&D funding, Enterprise Ireland supports innovation that helps to grow sales and employment for your business and can be used for the development of the new products or services that involve the resolution of some technical challenges, be non-routine and represent a ‘step-up’ for the company in terms of RD&I capability.

Funding: Grant rates are dependent on a company size and inclusion of collaboration

	Small Enterprise	Medium Enterprise	Large Enterprise
Experimental Development (R,D & I)	45%	35%	25%
Experimental Development with Collaboration: subject to effective collaboration between undertakings (for large enterprises, cross-border or with at least one SME).	60%	50%	40%