This aid scheme from the Ministry of the Economy and Foreign Trade provides support for costs linked to technical industrial property. Technical industrial property is defined by law as a temporary monopoly on the exploitation of an intellectual work protected by a right, such as a patent or design, or by a copyright on software. 

Beneficiaries

This aid is reserved for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) and private research organisations (meeting the SME criteria) established in Luxembourg.

Eligible costs

The eligible costs cover:

• all costs preceding the grant of the right in the first legal jurisdiction
• translation and other costs incurred in order to obtain the granting or validation of the right in other legal jurisdictions
• costs incurred to defend the validity of the right during the official prosecution of the application and possible opposition proceedings.

Forms of aid

The maximum intensity is equal to the intensity that could have been allocated to the R&D activities that led to the right being obtained, i.e.:

• 100% for expenses following a fundamental research activity
• 50% for expenses following an industrial research activity
• 25% for expenses following an experimental development activity.

A bonus of 15% can be added for technical intellectual property expenses incurred at the end of an effective collaboration with at least one public research organisation in Luxembourg or one enterprise in Luxembourg or in another EU member state. Subcontracting is not considered to be effective collaboration.

Submitting an application

Aid applications and their appendixes should be submitted both:

• in electronic format (pdf and docx or doc, rtf, odt) to the following e-mail address: loi.rdi@eco.etat.lu. The mail subject must include the name of the company and the name of the project
• and in paper format to the Ministry of the Economy and Foreign Trade, Directorate of Research and Innovation, L-2914 Luxembourg

Aid applications must be submitted before the RDI investments are made or before the relevant connected activities are launched. Before submitting your application, consult the guidelines for the submission of aid applications.