SME instrument

Forming part of the Horizon 2020 umbrella of funds, the SME-instrument seeks to encourage for-profit companies to put forward their most innovative ideas with an EU dimension that can't find financing on the market because of their high-risk character. The SME instrument targets highly innovative SMEs showing a strong ambition to develop, grow and internationalise, regardless of whether they are high-tech and research-driven or non-research conducting, social or service companies.

The SME instrument will address the financing gap in developing high-potential, but high-risk innovative ideas of small companies and bringing them closer to the market. This has been a widely recognised EU-wide market failure which relates to the market's difficult relationship with uncertainty and estimating the potential value of new technologies, new products, new resources, new firms or new entrepreneurial capabilities.

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