Tax incentives for research
Tax incentives for research offer small and medium-sized companies in particular incentives to invest in research and development.
research funding
Innovation Award 2025 – prize for practice-oriented problem solutions
The Ministry of Economic Affairs, Industry, Climate Protection and Energy of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia is awarding the NRW Innovation Prize for the year 2025.
State of NRW awards innovation prizes
Every year, the Innovation Award honours practice-oriented solutions to problems. The winners show that technological progress and sustainability go hand in hand.
Federal funding for industry and climate protection promotes decarbonisation
Companies have until 30 November 2024 to submit projects under the new “Federal Funding for Industry and Climate Protection (BIK)” funding guideline. Two funding modules are available: Funding for decarbonisation projects and funding for CCU and CCS.
Award of the NRW Innovation Prize 2023
The NRW 2023 Innovation Award is presented to courageous, creative individuals whose wealth of ideas, personal commitment and willingness to take risks make a significant contribution to NRW’s innovative strength.
Start-up Transfer.NRW
The Start-up Transfer.NRW funding competition supports people from science and research who are interested in setting up a company.
Current developments of tax-related topics
The event offered participants the opportunity to learn about and exchange information on current developments in tax law.
Research building ZESS of the Ruhr-Uni Bochum opens laboratories
ZESS is an inter- and transdisciplinary research facility of the Ruhr-University Bochum that transforms smart product-service systems into suitable methods, technologies and systems for industrial applications.
Funding competition “Industry.IN.NRW – Innovative Materials and Intelligent Production
The innovation competition supports the NRW economy and science in closing and more comprehensively mapping the value chain from materials production to processing and utilization.
Research infrastructures.NRW
The funding call is intended to support the transformation process towards a “Green Economy”. It is about increasing the implementation-oriented research and innovation potential in six innovation fields.