Innovative industrial project leaders, your applications! The Department of Industry launched, in consultation with the Ministry of Economy and Finance, Maroc PME and the CGEM, the third edition of the call for projects as part of its innovation support program industrial. The operation will make it possible to identify and select, for the year 2025, the best innovation and industrial Research & Development (R&D) projects, eligible for financial support from the State through the State Support Fund. innovation (FSI). Interested candidates have until September 30 to submit their applications. Remember that the industrial innovation support program represents an integrated offer which aims to support industrial companies throughout their research and development, prototyping and industrialization process in the pilot phase.
The candidate company must operate in an industrial activity and achieve a turnover greater than or equal to 10 million dirhams. Industrial companies in the start-up phase are also eligible for the program. They must therefore have a business plan for a minimum period of 4 years and at least one year of which provides for a turnover greater than or equal to 10 million DH. The call for projects is also open to industrial startups. The only condition: these structures must have startup status in the development phase of a project which could give rise to a start-up industrial company. Technological startups in the seed or operational phase also have the opportunity to submit their projects provided they present a business plan over a minimum period of 4 years, in addition to an industrial partnership in Morocco, supporting the startup in the realization of his project.
Important clarification: industrial companies wishing to participate in the call for projects can apply either individually, or as part of a consortium of industrial companies or as part of a partnership with a cluster, a city of innovation, an R&D center/laboratory or an industrial technical center. Consortia of industrial companies must submit their requests for support for this program, through an eligible member company designated as leader of the project concerned. Any eligible industrial company, which can benefit from State support as part of this new financing offer, must have a project aimed at the industrial and commercial valorization of patents, and/or a project aimed at the development of new products/ processes or a project aimed at industrialization in the pilot phase of an innovative product. The support offer for the valorization of patents aims to support the industrial and commercial valorization of patents, by covering 80% of the costs, capped at 1 million dirhams excluding tax per project.
-Eligible expenses include costs of services linked to the development and valorization of patents, including pre-diagnosis of intellectual property, state-of-the-art studies, prior art searches and services linked to patent services. technology watch. The offer of support for industrial R&D/innovation projects will consist of supporting innovation and product/process development projects, through a 60% contribution capped at 4 million DH excluding tax per project. Eligible expenses include costs linked to the production of models, prototypes, proof of concept, analysis and tests in addition to those relating to tests, analyses, laboratory work or similar work, in addition to services linked to valorization. patents, trademarks, models and licenses.
Finally, the offer of support for industrialization in the pilot phase aims to support the industrialization of innovative solutions and products from industrial companies in the pilot phase. This support will make it possible to carry out the tests in small-scale industrial conditions, before carrying out the overall industrial investment of the project, by covering 30% of the costs linked to this phase, up to 5 million dirhams. Eligible expenses relating to this offer include costs linked to the development of buildings housing platforms/pilot production lines, the acquisition of materials and equipment, platforms, tools necessary for the establishment of the production line. pilot production and logistics linked to the acquisition of equipment.
