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Innovate - Chapter 4

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Chapter 4 - How to finance innovation in your business

Innovation requires financing. Depending on your needs and the scale of your project, this financing can come in various forms, including grants, business loans and equity investments.

From starting to running to growing, below are over 50 funds and supports available for businesses in Ireland. 

While the list below is extensive, it is by no means definitive.

This list begins with funds and supports for start-ups and then gravitates towards funds and loans for companies that are already running and finally supports for companies that are growing.

  1. Local Enterprise Office
  2. Bank Finance
  3. Start-up refunds for Entrepreneurs (SURE)
  4. Short Terms Enterprise Allowance
  5. Three Year Corporate Tax Exemption
  6. The Employment and investment incentive Scheme
  7. Start Your Own Business Scheme
  8. OPTIMISE eCommerce Fund
  9. Innovation Vouchers
  10. Feasibility Study / Innovation Grant
  11. Halo Business Angel Network (HBAN)
  12. New Frontiers Entrepreneur Development Programme
  13. Private Supports for Start-Ups – Incubators – The NDRC
  14. The Rubicon Centre, Cork
  15. DIT Hothouse
  16. Enterprise Ireland funded campus incubation centres
  17. Origin8 from NCAD
  18. Nova UCD
  19. Trinity Technology & Enterprise Campus
  20. Ignite Incubator programme
  21. Invest Centre DCU
  22. The Ignite Technology Transfer Office 9 ignite TTO) Galway
  23. Incubation Centre at Maynooth University
  24. The New innovation Centre at limerick University
  25. Food Academy Start Programme
  26. Institute of Technology Incubation Centres
  27. Propeller Venture Accelerator Programme
  28. LunchBox
  29. Startupbootcamp Ireland
  30. Seedcamp
  31. Dogpatch Labs
  32. First Friday for Start-ups
  33. Startpath
  34. The Competitive Feasibility Fund for Female Entrepreneurs – Enterprise Ireland
  35. The Competitive Start Fund – Enterprise Ireland
  36. The High Potential Start Up Unit – Enterprise Ireland
  37. Graduate Start Fund - Enterprise Ireland
  38. Google Ventures
  39. Ireland’s Best Young Entrepreneur
  40. Microsoft’s Imagine Camp
  41. Bank of Ireland National Start Up Awards
  42. Google Adopt a Start Up
  43. Crowd Funding and Peer to Peer Lending
  44. Linked Finance
  45. Fundit.ie
  46. Kickstarter
  47. SBCI
  48. Microfinance
  49. Credit Guarantee Scheme
  50. R&D Tax Credit
  51. Accelerated Capital Allowance
  52. Venture Capital Funding
  53. Job plus