aws Innovation Protection advanced - Implementation
The aim is to support you in flexibly implementing in your company a property rights strategy developed together with you and to do so by strengthening your resources. This is aimed at Austrian-based companies from all sectors, especially innovative, technology-orientated companies.
Sectors
All industries - especially innovative, technology-orientated industries
Company size
Micro, small and medium-sized enterprises, i.e.
- Employees: at least 2 and < 250
- Turnover: < EUR 50 million
- Balance sheet total: < EUR 43 million
Development phase
All business phases
Requirements
- They meet all formal and content-related criteria as well as programme-specific requirements
Details: Guideline Specifications
Eligible costs
- Costs of acquiring new intellectual property rights and defending and enforcing existing intellectual property rights
- Costs for external consulting services to support the implementation of a strategy regarding intellectual property rights
- Personnel costs for innovation protection management
- Costs related to the transfer of intellectual property rights (licensing, acquisition)
Funding level
Grant: up to 50 % of eligible project costs – but no more than EUR 100,000
Project duration
A maximum of 2 years
Disbursement
As soon as you have submitted the invoices for already performed third-party services
Repayment
Non-repayable
Costs
None
- Costs resulting from invoices for small amounts below EUR 150 (net),
- Costs of continuous routine consulting or marketing
- Court costs and any reimbursement of costs to opposing parties in relation to property right infringements
- Ongoing incurred sales-dependent (turnover, units, etc.) Licence costs
- Value added tax
- Incidental wage costs, travel expenses
Application date
at any time until 15/05/2023
Application and approval
- You apply for aws innovation protection via the aws Funding Manager.
- An independent jury decides on funding applications with a grant.
- Funding applications with a grant can be approved in several sub-projects. The allocation of requested costs and consultancy services to sub-projects is clarified in detail in advance with the applicant company.
- In this case we will inform you of our decision as soon as possible.
Approval period
- Funding (coaching and grant):
Jury decision about every 2 to 3 months