Innovation mandates
An innovation mandate is specifically intended to allow postdoctoral researchers to carry out a project in close collaboration with the business / industrial sector, whether this be with an existing company, or with a view to setting up a new company.
The aim of an innovation mandate is the economic valorisation of the research results and also basic research, in order to make the results applicable to companies, in other words, innovation mandates are projects whose level of risk is still too high to be carried out as an industrial R&D project.
Requirements
Procedure
The application form must be submitted through the online application form. Subsequently, VLAIO will assess this application.
A consortium can apply for an innovation mandate at any time. However, VLAIO only decides which projects will receive funding and which will not at two specific moments a year. As a result, VLAIO has set two submission deadlines in the course of each calendar year.
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Funding
An innovation mandate provides funding for the staffing costs, the overhead costs and the operational costs in relation to one specific employee (the mandate holder).
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Contact
Flanders Innovation & Entrepreneurship
E-mail: Baekeland-IM@vlaio.be(opens in your email application)