What this funding is for
The R&D Experience Grant helps you hire a tertiary student to work on a research and development project in your business.
You can use the funding to:
- employ a student in a full-time internship for up to 10 weeks
- develop your team's R&D knowledge
- bring new skills and ideas into your business
- support the delivery of an R&D project
Students can come from a range of disciplines, including science, technology, engineering, design, and business.
- Type
- Grant
- Amount
- Up to 10 student interns, depending on your business size
- Co-funding
- No
- How it's allocated
- Funding is allocated on a first come, first served basis
- Availability
- Open, set dates apply
- Application effort
- Moderate effort, four to 12 hours
Who this funding is for
This grant is for businesses that want to build their research and development capability by hiring a tertiary student.
Your business must have an R&D project for the student to work on and be able to support them during their internship.
- Business type
- Companies, limited partnerships, and Māori organisations
- Business size
- Any, must have at least one R&D full-time employee (FTE)
- Business stage
- Businesses already doing R&D
- Business goal
- Develop new products, services, or technology
What to know before you apply
Your business must be able to carry out the R&D project and supervise the student during their internship. Some government-owned organisations are not eligible.
Apply to MBIE for the R&D Experience Grant
Find out if you're eligible and apply to Innovation Services on business.govt.nz.
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