Analysis Capabilities for Investment in the High-Tech
The program is open yearlong
Program's Description
The incentive program assists institutional entities operating in the Israeli capital market to build the capability to identify and analyze investments in Israeli high-tech companies.
Applied Research in Academia
The program is open yearlong
Program's Description
This program incentivizes applied research with innovative technological feasibility originating in academia that is advanced to the stage at which an Israeli industrial company will adopt it to develop a commercial product.
Argentina – Israel Industrial R&D Cooperation Program
The program is open yearlong
Program's Description
The Bilateral Framework Program is jointly implemented by MINCyT, The Ministry of Science Technology and Productive Innovation in Argentina and Israel Innovation Authority.
Preferred Technologies and Sectors : All Technological Fields
* Academic and other research entities are eligible to join as...
Assistive Technological Solutions for the Disabled – “Ezer-Tech”
The program is open yearlong
Program's Description
This incentive program is the result of collaboration between the Innovation Authority and the National Insurance Institute funds. The program aims to encourage R&D of assistive technologies for the disabled in order to allow them equal opportunity and full integration in society and the labor...
Autonomous Vehicles in Israel – Forming Regulatory Framework Program (C4IR)
The program is open yearlong
Program's Description
The Challenge
Autonomous driving is a disruptive, innovative technology, that challenges the existing driving laws and regulations. In order to enable the trials and operation of driverless vehicles the Israeli Government needed to shape a new regulatory framework, to enable the operation and...
Back to Tech Program
The program is open yearlong
Program's Description
The Back to Tech Incentive Program (formerly: The National Program for the Return of Israeli Academics) seeks to increase the number of skilled workers in the Israeli high-tech industry with Israeli technology professionals living abroad who have accumulated knowledge and experience in the global...
Bilateral Programs with European Countries
The program is open yearlong
Program's Description
Industrial R&D Cooperation with European Countries
As Israel’s number one trading partner, Europe is a continent rich in opportunities for Israeli industry. European countries, the EU and Israel have a long history of successful and groundbreaking technological and scientific cooperation in a...
Bilateral R&D Incentive Program
The program is open yearlong
Program's Description
The incentive program provides support to Israeli companies working with foreign companies on commercialization-directed programs to develop new technological products or to significantly upgrade an existing technology.
The program provides financial incentive funded by the Innovation Authority...
Biotechnological Incubators Incentive Program
The program is open yearlong
Program's Description
The program supports entrepreneurs who are interested in founding a startup company on the basis of a biotechnological idea and who are in the early stages of a project. The assistance is provided via a supportive framework offered by the biotechnological incubator.
EU-Guaranteed Loans via The European Investment Fund (EIF)
The program is open yearlong
Program's Description
Many innovative companies develop high-risk technologies and therefore either struggle to obtain credit or receive loans with daunting terms. To help these companies receive more affordable credit, the European Investment Fund (EIF) has launched a program that enables them to receive a European...
Establishment of R&D labs and databases accessible to the entire industry
The program is open yearlong
Program's Description
This incentive program enables the establishment and joint operation of R&D infrastructure for the industry via a single corporate or an association of users (a group of corporations operating in similar fields) designed to establish an R&D lab or subsidize R&D equipment, providing...
GCI – Grand Challenges Israel Incentive Program
The program is open yearlong
Program's Description
The Grand Challenges Israel incentive program operates as part of the Grand Challenges in Global Health international initiative. The incentive program is also partnered by Israel’s Agency for International Development Cooperation (MASHAV).
Generic R&D Incentive Program for Large Companies
The program is open yearlong
Program's Description
This incentive program allows large companies to focus on long-term creation of new knowledge and technological infrastructure, used for the development or production of future innovative products.
Gov-Tech – Technological Innovation for the Public Sector – (Mimshal-Tech)
The program is open yearlong
Program's Description
This incentive program is the result of collaboration between the Innovation Authority and the Israeli Ministry for Social Equality’s “Digital Israel” project. The program is intended to encourage and assist companies and NGOs offering an innovative technological solution for public sector...
High-Tech Specialization for First Job Employees (Juniors)
The program is open yearlong
Program's Description
In response to the shortage of skilled personnel for the Israeli high-tech industry, the Innovation Authority has launched the high-tech internship incentive program that provides grants to support high-tech companies that create employee specialization programs.
As part of these programs, new...
Hong Kong-Israel R&D Program
The program is open yearlong
Program's Description
Companies from Hong Kong (SAR) and Israel are welcome to submit applications for financial support for Bilateral Industrial R&D projects under the HK-IL R&D Cooperation Program.
The Hong Kong-Israel R&D Cooperation Program was established with the goal of promoting industrial R&D...
Horizon 2020 Program and Jointly Funded Associated Programs (ERA NET)
The program is open yearlong
Program's Description
The EU Horizon 2020 Program seeks to create collaboration in areas of research, development, and innovation between Israeli and European entities from industry, academia, research institutes, and public and private organizations.
ISERD, the Israel-Europe Research and Innovation Directorate, is...
Human Capital for High-Tech Fund
The program is open yearlong
Program's Description
The R&D employees in Israel’s high-tech industry are one of the most important resources preserving the State of Israel’s leading position and competitiveness, thereby contributing greatly to its economy.
The Societal Challenges Division of the Innovation Authority has designed a new incentive...
Ideation (Tnufa) Incentive Program
The program is open yearlong
Program's Description
The Ideation (Tnufa) Incentive Program is designed for fledgling entrepreneurs to develop and validate innovative technological concepts.
Incentive Program for Adapting Products for Emerging Markets
The program is open yearlong
Program's Description
The Product Adaptation Incentive Program for emerging markets was developed as part of the bi-national incentive programs out of an understanding of the importance of economic activity with emerging markets.
Incentive Program to Encourage the Establishment of Multinational Companies’ R&D Centers in the Fields of Biotechnology and Health
The program is open yearlong
Program's Description
(Pilot)
This incentive program enables large foreign industrial corporations operating in the fields of biotechnology or health to establish or expand their Israeli R&D and technological innovation operations as well as their management and global value chain operations in these fields. The...
Increasing Participation in EU Framework Program
The program is open yearlong
Program's Description
Program 37 – Program for Increasing Participation of Israeli Companies in the European Framework Program – Horizon Europe
Innovation Labs Program
The program is open yearlong
Program's Description
The program is aimed at assisting entrepreneurs in the preliminary stages of a project, who need unique infrastructures and expertise to prove the feasibility of a technological idea. The assistance is provided through innovation labs operated by the industry’s leading corporations via a model of...
Israel – Georgia Collaborative Industry Innovation Program
The program is open yearlong
Program's Description
Israel – Georgia Collaborative Industry Innovation Program With the outhern Company Application for Expressions of Interest.
Introduction
This Request is the first call for expressions of interest by Israeli Companies initiated within the framework of the collaborative industry research and...
Israel – Pennsylvania Collaborative Industry R&D Program
The program is open yearlong
Program's Description
This Request for Proposals (RFP) is the first call for proposals initiated within the framework of the collaborative industry research and development program envisioned in the Agreement between the Israel Innovation Authority and the Pennsylvania Office of International Business Development on...
Israel Innovation Authority – Wisconsin Water Innovation Partnership
The program is open yearlong
Program's Description
The Israel Innovation Authority and The Water Council of Wisconsin recently signed a JOINT DECLARATION OF INTENT IN THE FIELD OF TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION and invite interested companies to submit applications to refine and validate their water technology solutions.
The Israel Innovation Authority...
Israel – Colorado Innovation Program
The program is open yearlong
Program's Description
The purpose of the Program is to support greater collaboration and synergies between the Colorado innovation ecosystem and Israeli innovative companies in the Water/Energy/Transportation (WET) industries and in particular provide a platform for investment in Israeli tech companies that will...
Israel’s Membership in CERN
The program is open yearlong
Program's Description
Technological Infrastructure Division
CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) is the largest particle accelerator in the world. In 2012, Israel was upgraded from associate member to full member in CERN, with an annual membership fee of 15 million Swiss Francs, 17% of which is contributed...
Ontario – Israel Smart Mobility Program
The program is open yearlong
Program's Description
The Ontario-Israel Research Network Program – MAGNET (OIRNP-MAGNET) will support bilateral collaboration to develop and demonstrate technological solutions. The program is facilitated through the framework of the Ontario-Israel Innovation MOU, as a partnership between Ontario Centres of Excellence...
Pilot Programs with Multinational Corporations (MNCs)
The program is open yearlong
Program's Description
The incentive program supports Israeli companies’ technology pilot programs in different fields that will be conducted at foreign companies or that will be based on their capabilities, data, or information. The program grants Israeli companies an opportunity to work with selected corporations and a...
Pilot Programs with Prominent International Beta Sites
The program is open yearlong
Program's Description
The incentive program supports Israeli companies’ technological pilot programs in different fields, that will be conducted at selected foreign entities’ Beta sites or that will be based on their capabilities, data, or information. This incentive is made possible by a financial grant funded by...
Pre-Product Innovative Technology in the Industry
The program is open yearlong
Program's Description
Program for Boosting Participation of Israeli Companies in the European Frameworks Program- Horizon 2020
The program is open yearlong
Program's Description
As part of the efforts to assist and encourage Israeli entities in submitting requests to the Framework Program and to programs that offer joint funding by the European Frameworks Program, the Innovation Authority has initiated the establishment of a program to support companies in seeking partners...
Promoting Applied Research in Academia
The program is open yearlong
Program's Description
The program encourages applied research with innovative technological feasibility that originated in academia and is brought to a stage where an Israeli industrial company can further develop and commercialize it.
R&D Collaboration with Multinational Corporations Program (MNC)
The program is open yearlong
Program's Description
Connecting foreign multinational corporations (MNCs) and innovative Israeli companies.
Israel has been frequently referred to as the “Startup Nation” with hundreds of net new startups established annually. While startups are in many cases the ones to make the technological...
R&D Fund
The program is open yearlong
Program's Description
The incentive program supports commercial companies currently developing new products or upgrading an existing technology. The program offers the largest financial incentive awarded by the State of Israel for Israeli corporations’ R&D activity and is offered to all sectors with the aim of...
R&D Preparatory Incentive Program for Companies in the Manufacturing Industry
The program is open yearlong
Program's Description
The preparatory incentive program is a complementary tool operated by the Innovation Authority for the manufacturing industry sectors. This tool is intended to assist companies without prior R&D experience in leading innovation processes, or for companies that require focus and guidance with...
Startup Fund
The program is open yearlong
Program's Description
Israel is widely regarded as a haven for entrepreneurs, innovators, and investors. With over 500 multinational companies actively present in the ecosystem, Israel is ranked third in the world in the number of active high-tech companies. The Israeli tech hub owes much of its success to a supportive...
Support Program for Innovation in Selected Fields – Environmental Protection – Climatech
The program is open yearlong
Program's Description
This program, that supports R&D and pilots in the field of environmental protection, is operated jointly by the Innovation Authority and the Ministry of Environmental Protection. The products submitted as part of this program must be ready for trial and without significant R&D content.
The...
Support Program for Innovation in Selected Fields – Local Authorities
The program is open yearlong
Program's Description
This program, that supports R&D and pilot programs of innovative technological products used by local authority entities that are expected to economize and improve the services provided to citizens, is operated jointly by the Innovation Authority, the Ministry of the Interior, and the...
Support Program for Innovation in Selected Fields – Reducing Greenhouse Emissions
The program is open yearlong
Program's Description
This specially designated program, which provides extensive support for projects that conduct preliminary commercial installations of new Israeli technologies, is operated jointly by the Innovation Authority, the Israel Investment Center, and the Ministry of Environmental Protection. The Israeli...
Support Program for Innovation in Selected Fields – Space
The program is open yearlong
Program's Description
This program, that supports R&D for finding technological solutions in the different fields of space, is operated jointly by the Innovation Authority and the Israel Space Agency in the Ministry of Science and Technology.
The program’s goal is to encourage R&D aimed at finding technological...
TELEM (The National Infrastructure Forum for Research and Development)
The program is open yearlong
Program's Description
TELEM was established in late 1997 at the initiative of the Israeli National Academy of Science. The Forum is a voluntary organization that strives to promote R&D programs and projects in scientific and technological fields through establishment of national R&D infrastructures and...
Taiwan-Israel R&D Program
The program is open yearlong
Program's Description
Companies from Israel and Taiwan are welcome to submit applications for financial support for Bilateral Industrial R&D projects under the Taiwan-Israel R&D Cooperation Program.
Technological Innovation Incubators Program
The program is open yearlong
Program's Description
The Incubators Program is intended for entrepreneurs interested in founding a startup company based on an innovative technological idea via a technological incubator that constitutes an entrepreneurial center.
The incubator’s role is to invest in companies in their early stages and to provide a...
The Advanced Technology Studies Workshop (HaSadna)
The program is open yearlong
Program's Description
The huge demand for experts in advanced technology professions requires innovative models for training experts in this field and for upgrading skilled professionals already employed in the high-tech industry.
This incentive program supports the creation of a joint advanced training framework for...
The Mexico-Israel Program for Industrial Research, Development, and Innovation
The program is open yearlong
Program's Description
The Mexico-Israel program for Industrial Research and Development and Innovation
The Mexico-Israel program for Industrial Research and Development and Innovation is a bilateral framework operated by both governments to develop and strengthen economic, industrial, technological and commercial...
Uruguay-Israel R&D Cooperation Program
The program is open yearlong
Program's Description
The program supports collaborative technological innovation projects between Uruguayan and Israeli companies. This bilateral framework is jointly implemented and funded by ANII, the National Research and Innovation Agency of Uruguay and by Israel Innovation Authority.
The objective of the program...
Venture Incubators Funding Program
Open per valid Call for Proposals until November 17, 2024
Program's Description
Venture Creation and Early-Stage Capital Investments in Technological Startups – The incubator’s role is to invest in companies in their early stages and to provide a framework that supports the establishment of the company and the development of the idea into a commercial product. The...
Visas for Foreign High-Tech Experts Incentive Program
The program is open yearlong
Program's Description
As part of the efforts to contend with the shortage of skilled high-tech personnel in Israel, starting 2018 the Innovation Authority together with the State Population and Immigration Authority launched a specially designated visa program for foreign high-tech experts.
Yozma Fund 2.0
Available per open call for proposals until June 27, 2024
Program's Description
The Yozma Fund 2.0, a new program aimed at encouraging investments by institutional entities in Israeli venture capital funds that support Israeli companies. The fund targets institutional investors such as insurance companies, pension funds, and provident funds, providing them with a unique...
C4IR Israel
Closed for submission now.
14/07/2025
Program's Description
The world is in the midst of the fourth industrial revolution – a period during which technological breakthroughs and industrial disruptive technologies are blurring geographical borders and challenging existing regulatory frameworks. Technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain and...
Chile & Israel R&D Cooperation Program – EUREKA
Closed for submission now.
31/07/2025
Program's Description
Chile (CORFO) and Israel ( Israel Innovation Authority) collaborate on joint R&D projects under the EUREKA program (with the participation of Czech Republic (MEYS), France (Bpifrance), Spain (CDTI-EPE), Sweden (VINNOVA) and Turkey (TÜBITAK) ).
All parties will provide all necessary assistance...
Early Stage Companies Incentive Program
Closed for submission now.
31/07/2025
Program's Description
The Early Stage Incentive Program is designed for startup companies seeking to develop and promote an innovative technological project, as well as penetrate the market by raising investments from the private sector. The program offers preferred incentives to minorities and Ultra-Orthodox...
The Israel-Florida Innovation Alliance
Closed for submission now.
15/07/2025
Program's Description
The Israel-Florida Innovation Alliance (the “Israel – Florida Industrial R&D Cooperation Initiative,” “Innovation Alliance”) is launched under the Florida- Israel MOU signed between the states and was formalized with the signing of the Space Florida-Israel Innovation Partnership Program by the...