1707- SME Support Call for Order-Based R&D Projects

Within the scope of Order R&D calls, R&D projects that can quickly turn into products and have high commercialization potential will be supported.

Supporting R&D projects in partnership with Customer Organization, where SMEs, which constitute the majority of industrial organizations in our country, will develop innovative products/processes that are potential customers; it will both increase cooperation and enable more effective use of public resources allocated for R&D supports. This process will also contribute to the sustainable development of our country.

With the 1707 Order R&D call 2024 - 1, it is aimed to transform the solution proposals that meet the customer needs into commercial outputs by SMEs through R&D and to contribute to the export of these outputs. In addition, it will contribute to the development of foreign cooperation of domestic companies. In this way, it is expected that organizations will have positive effects on the import/export balance of our country by increasing their market shares abroad for a certain product/process.

With the 1707 Order R&D-b call 2024 - 1, it is aimed to transform the solution proposals that meet the customer's needs into commercializable outputs through R&D by the entrepreneurial SMEs that have received BIGG support. Within the scope of the 1707 Order R&D-b call, it was possible to make prepayments to the supplier organization that received BIGG or Techno-enterprise Capital Support. 10% overhead support will be given to the supplier organization that has received BIGG or Techno-enterprise Capital Support. You can find the contact information and fields of activity of entrepreneurs who have received BIGG support, which can contribute to the establishment of partnerships between Customer Organizations and organizations that receive the 1512-BiGG Program or Techno-enterprise Capital Support, here.

Conducting R&D studies by the Supplier Organization for the projects to be submitted to the call; The project output will be expected to be commercialized by placing the product on the market by the Customer Organization and/or Supplier Organization. The Customer Organization will provide co-financing support to the Supplier Organization's R&D costs.

 

It is expected from the call that cooperation between industrial organizations will increase and R&D outputs will turn into commercial products more quickly. It is also thought that the call will encourage the emergence of spin-off companies within the Customer Organization. It is anticipated that the call will increase the effectiveness of the national innovation system in terms of directly contributing to the processes of sharing, disseminating and productizing information.

There is a condition that a Customer Organization and at least one Supplier Organization jointly apply to the call and the Supplier Organization must be SME scale. Application and support processes will be carried out between TÜBİTAK and the Customer Organization. R&D projects with high commercialization potential can be supported from all sectors and all technology fields. Project proposals need to cover the work to be done by the Supplier Organization and market research and economic feasibility review are of utmost importance. The Supplier Organization is expected to develop the product (or process) by conducting R&D studies, and the Customer Organization is expected to monitor that the project is carried out as intended.

The call schedule is given below. Applications will be sent online at https://eteydeb.tubitak.gov.tr.

 

The project budget will be at most 7,500,000 TL. The duration of the project will be a maximum of 24 months in total.

In Order R&D calls, The Customer Organization’ expenses of project personnel engaged in activities such as management, quality control, testing, and field validation of the product (with the upper limit of 18 person-months of labor for this support) are supported, as well as intercity travel expenses.

For projects within the scope of the Order R&D call; The Customer Organization will pay 40% of the periodical project expenses to the Supplier Organization, and TÜBİTAK will give 40% of the "accepted expenditure amount" to the Supplier Organization as a grant after evaluating the expenses. TÜBİTAK support will be 50% for projects within the scope of Order R&D-b calls.

In Order R&D calls, if the project proposal is among the Priority R&D and Innovation Topics under the Green Agreement the projects will be awarded 8 points. Additionally, based on the commercialization performance of previously supported TÜBİTAK projects, an additional score between 5-10 points will be granted.

In order to help create new collaborations, the data fields of the projects can be accessed by using the "Completed Projects" option on the TEYDEB main web page https://eteydeb.tubitak.gov.tr/teydebanasayfa.htm

You can find the 1707 Order R&D call announcement here

You can reach the 1707 Order R&D-b call announcement here

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