Innobooster

• Your company must have a Danish CVR registration when applying and satisfy the EU small or medium-sized enterprise definition: fewer than 250 employees and annual turnover no more than EUR 50 million or a balance sheet total no more than EUR 43 million. The rules apply across the corporate group; the guidelines identify group relationships where one company holds more than 25% of another's capital or voting rights.
• At application, meet either financial test: at least DKK 100,000 in qualifying risk capital or development grants received within three years, or gross profit of at least DKK 250,000 in one of the last three published annual accounts. Where publication is not required, the accounts must be audited and signed by management. Be able to document the test.
• Qualifying risk capital is money contributed as equity—funding that gives the contributor ownership in the company—or as an unsecured convertible loan, which can be converted into company ownership and requires no pledged assets or other security. It must come from a separate legal person, including owners acting personally or through companies, or other investors. Development grants must fund specific development activities. Loans requiring priority over other creditors, repayment or security, noncash contributions and nonfinancial support do not meet this test.
• Companies in compulsory dissolution, bankruptcy, voluntary liquidation or suspension of payments are excluded. So are companies more than 50% owned by the state, regions or municipalities, or receiving public operating subsidies exceeding half their turnover.
• Your solution must create commercial value for your company and societal value in Denmark. Projects ready for launch with mainly sales, marketing, documentation, testing or commercial production left are excluded. A marketed solution undergoing mainly optimisation or verification is generally too advanced.

For requests up to DKK 1 million, declare previous de minimis aid: small amounts of public support counted together across the relevant single undertaking, including controlled/group-linked businesses. The usual ceiling is EUR 300,000 over three years, including this grant. Primary agricultural producers instead have a EUR 50,000 ceiling for the current and two preceding financial years; primary fisheries/aquaculture producers have EUR 30,000 over those financial years. Mixed businesses may use the general rules for other sectors only with separated activities and project finances; agricultural and fisheries activities retain their respective special rules.

Requests above DKK 1 million use the EU General Block Exemption Regulation. Work must be industrial research—gaining knowledge to develop new or substantially improved solutions—or experimental development—using existing knowledge for technical development, prototypes or pilots of solutions still being developed. Routine changes do not qualify. The grant must stimulate additional research/development activity.

For this larger-grant branch, your company must comply with outstanding Commission orders to repay unlawful Danish state aid and cannot be an undertaking in difficulty. For a limited-liability company, accumulated losses must not have wiped out more than half its subscribed share capital; for a company with members personally liable for its debts, the test uses capital shown in its accounts. These capital-loss tests do not apply to SMEs younger than three years. Insolvency proceedings or meeting creditor-initiated insolvency criteria, an unpaid rescue loan or an outstanding rescue guarantee, and an ongoing restructuring plan following restructuring aid also count as difficulty. Innobooster's rules also exempt companies that were not in difficulty on 31 December 2019 but became distressed between 1 January 2020 and 31 December 2021.

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20 août 2026

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15 oct. 2026

Conditions de cette période de candidature

• Submit before 12:00 noon, as instructed on the intake page.

Apply to Danmarks Innovationsfond through e-grant. A person authorised to bind the company must register, then select the Innobooster call matching the grant requested: up to DKK 1 million or above DKK 1 million. Choose by the requested grant, not total project cost; the wrong route is rejected. You can write in Danish or English, although the application form, budget and activity-plan templates are in Danish. The current intake page instructs submission before 12:00 noon.

After an award, accept its conditions in e-grant within the stated deadline and before starting. The project cannot start before the award date and must start within four months of the award notification. Costs before the approved project start are ineligible.

Payment is in arrears. Submit accounts every three months; record project hours daily and approve them internally each month. Keep grant accounting records for 10 years from the award. Provide an auditor's declaration for each project year; projects shorter than 15 months need only one at completion. A midterm progress presentation is also required.

Obtain prior approval through e-grant before changing suppliers, budget allocations or the end date. Request an extension before the existing end date; exceeding 24 months is accepted only exceptionally. Report material changes promptly. Missing required tasks/deadlines or satisfactory spending documentation can lead to cancellation of remaining funding and recovery of payments.

Complete the evaluation and short final report within one month after the project period ends, alongside final accounts and the auditor's declaration. The fund retains 15% until it approves all completion material; show eligible spending in the accounts and request that final payment even when spending has already exceeded 85% of the grant.