Yes, Swedish research institutes can participate as co-financiering business actors in certain programmes offered by the The Knowledge Foundation (Research Projects, Industrial Graduate Schools, Synergy Projects, Early Academic Career, and Research Profiles). However, their share of the business sector’s combined co-funding in a project may not exceed 25 percent.
No, the Knowledge Foundation has no size restrictions for the business actors that can co-finance projects. However, it is important for that the application clearly demonstrate that the organization has the resources and assets required to fulfill the commitments described in the application.
The Knowledge Foundation uses the term “innovation support activities” to describe support structures whose main task is to promote innovation and business development, primarily in small and newly established companies. Innovation support organizations that are owned by or receive most of their funding from a higher education institution or through...
Co-production forms the basis of Knowledge Foundation’s operation and is an inherent element in the projects and the research and educational environments that we fund. Co-production means that the projects we fund must be designed and implemented in close collaboration between academia and the business sector, usually with co-funding from...
Read more about our criteria for co-financing business actors here.
As a rule, the value of the involvement of the business sector – in the form of competence, equipment and so on – must be at least equivalent to the amount contributed by the Knowledge Foundation (excluding overheads). Some of our programmes does not require co-funding from the business sector....