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The SIID - Business R&D – Individual and Co-promotion Demonstration Projects supports business investment in innovation and knowledge creation projects. It aims to foster the transformation of the productive sector towards more innovative, sustainable, knowledge- and technology-intensive production models that generate higher added value, promote the economic valorisation of R&D, and enable the development of new products, processes or services, including significant improvements (innovation processes) to existing ones.
Projects involving advanced technologies and pilot lines which, building on successfully completed R&D activities, aim to demonstrate, under real operating conditions and before a specialised audience, the economic and technical advantages of new solutions that have not yet reached a sufficient level of technological validation for commercial deployment.
Projects may not include investment costs related to Industrial Research activities exceeding 25% of the total proposed investment.
Funding
Funding Rate: Up to 80%, except in the Lisbon region, where the maximum funding rate is limited to 40%. Minimum Investment: €200,000 (two hundred thousand euros)
From 14 July 2026 to 29 December 2026.
Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) and Small Mid-Caps. For collaborative projects, Non-Business Entities of the Research and Innovation System (ENESII), including those established in the Autonomous Regions of the Azores and Madeira (for projects funded under PITD), are also eligible as co-promoters.
Projects located in the Algarve and Lisbon regions are funded through their respective Regional Programmes.
Individual Projects:
Collaborative Projects:
The key point in separating an R&D project from an engineering project or an industrial activity is the existence of an appreciable element of novelty and the resolution of a scientific and/or technological uncertainty.
This can be very easy to spot - a product that dictates a significant advance over the state of the art, but also often in problem solving, whether in what is your core business, your products, development, or production processes, or in less obvious areas and/or processes.
In order to prove the SME dimension, the company must register in the electronic SME certification of IAPMEI.
The use of this certification is mandatory for all entities involved in procedures requiring SME status (Article 3(3) of Decree-Law No 372/2007 of 6 November).
Not using the SME certification to prove its status means that in the decision-making process, the managing authority classifies it as a Large Enterprise, which then has consequences for the level of incentive granted, since this is typically higher the smaller the size of the enterprise.
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