NKFIH launches project to stimulate SMEs

According to the information, the GINOP PLUSZ project, titled “Building an RDI ecosystem by providing targeted research, development and innovation services and operating the entrepreneurial fact-finding process,” is being implemented within the Széchenyi Plan Plusz program with a non-refundable European Union grant of five billion forints and co-financing from the Hungarian state.

The project is being implemented by a consortium of the National Research, Development and Innovation Office and the National Innovation Agency, and its planned completion date is June 30, 2029.

They reiterated that

the aim of the project is to strengthen performance and competitiveness, as well as to support knowledge sharing between economic partner organizations, and to create an accessible knowledge base in both the domestic and international environment.

In the spirit of all this, the goal is to develop and introduce innovation services and measures that will result in more and more Hungarian enterprises joining research and development processes, renewing their business practices, and expanding their domestic or international network and knowledge base.

The direct target groups of the priority project are enterprises already operating in an innovative way, enterprises that become innovative thanks to the implementation of the project, and micro, small and medium-sized enterprises in the start-up or early phase, the announcement says.