Provide access to research and development funding

As with much in life, research and development requires you to spend money to make money. Most companies do not have the spare capital to invest in innovation and, when business is tight and innovation can help the most, money is even harder to find.

However, Pera can help

There are many regional and national programmes across Europe that can provide the grants you need to make your new product concept a reality. Pera are Europe’s leading specialists in helping businesses access this funding. Our team of experts can support you though bid preparation, submission, negotiation and even delivery. We will even take the inevitable bureaucracy off your hands, leaving you free to focus on making your concept a commercial reality.

A range of programmes are available to suit the scope of your project. Whether you need €10,000 for initial feasibility work or €10m for groundbreaking collaborative research, Pera can find the grants to help offset your costs. In fact, last year we helped firms access more than €150 million of public funding. Even if you have little or no in-house research and development capability, some programmes will pay for researchers to do the work on your behalf.

In summary, public funding:

• can leave you paying as little as 5% of the project costs
• requires no repayments of the funding you receive;
• requires no dilution of your own equity, unlike VC and Business Angel finance;
• Allows you to retain control of intellectual property created through the R&D, and;
• Is your money. Wouldn’t it be nice to have some back to help your business?

To find out how Pera can help you reduce your research and development costs, please contact Andy Sykes on Tel: +44 (0)1664 501289 andy.sykes@pera.com