L.S. 463.41 Regolamenti dwar Għotja ta’ Riċerka Esplorattiva

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2. The title of these regulations is Exploring Research Grant Regulations. Citation.
3. requires: Interpretation. In these regulations, unless the context otherwise "Act" means the Malta Enterprise Act; "Corporation" means established under the Act; the Malta Cap.
4. Enterprise Corporation "experimental development" means acquiring, combining, shaping and using existing scientific, technological, business and other relevant knowledge and skills with the aim of developing new or improved products, processes or services. This may also include, for example, activities aiming at the conceptual definition, planning and documentation of new products, processes or services: Provided that experimental development may comprise prototyping, demonstrating, piloting, testing and validation of new or improved products, processes or services in environments representative of real life operating conditions where the primary objective is to make further technical improvements on products, processes or services that are not substantially set. This may include the development of a commercially usable prototype or pilot which is necessarily the final commercial product and which is too expensive to produce for it to be used only for demonstration and validation purposes: Provided further that experimental development does not include routine or periodic changes made to existing products, production lines, manufacturing processes, services and other operations in progress, even if those changes may represent improvements; "feasibility study" means the evaluation and analysis of the potential of a project, which aims at supporting the process of decision-making by objectively and rationally uncovering its strengths and weaknesses, opportunities and threats, as well as identifying the resources required to carry it through and ultimately its prospects for success; "guidelines" means the guidelines as may be published by the Corporation from time to time in terms of the Act; 1 2 [ S.L. 463.41 EXPLORING RESEARCH GRANT "industrial research" means the planned research or critical investigation aimed at the acquisition of new knowledge and skills for developing new products, processes or services or for bringing about a significant improvement in existing products, processes and services: Provided that industrial research comprises the creation of components parts of complex systems, and may include the construction of prototypes in a laboratory environment or in an environment with simulated interfaces to existing systems as well as of pilot lines, when necessary for the industrial research and notably for generic technology validation; "large undertaking", "medium sized undertaking" and "small undertaking" shall have the meaning attributed to them by Annex I of the Commission Regulation (EU) No 651/2014 of 17 June 2014 declaring certain categories of aid compatible with the internal market in application of Articles 107 and 108 of the Treaty; "undertaking" shall have the same meaning as assigned to it in the Act. Assistance for feasibility studies.
5. Where the Corporation is satisfied that an undertaking requires assistance to carry out a feasibility study in preparation of industrial research and experimental development activities, the Corporation may provide such an undertaking with financial assistance in accordance with the terms and conditions set out in the guidelines. Financial support.
6. The Corporation may support an undertaking to carry out a feasibility study with a cash grant, which shall not exceed fifty thousand euro (€50,000) and shall be capped at: (a) fifty per cent (50%) of eligible costs if the undertaking is a large undertaking; (b) sixty per cent (60%) of eligible costs if the undertaking is a medium-sized undertaking; (c) seventy per cent (70%) of eligible costs if the undertaking is a small undertaking. Eligible costs.
7. The eligible costs shall be wage costs, costs related to contractual research, technical knowledge and patents and other operational costs incurred specifically to carry out the study as further prescribed in the guidelines. Deadline for submission of applications for assistance.
8. Applications for assistance under these regulations shall be accepted by the Corporation until 31st October 2023.