Your company relies on innovative products and business models.
With aws Innovation Protection, we support you in recognising important intellectual property (IP), strategically securing it, defending it and using it optimally - especially in the area of green tech. An innovation protection strategy tailored to your business model forms the basis for creating and securing your competitive position.
aws Innovation Protection promotes the development and implementation of a company-specific innovation protection strategy through coaching, combined with grants.
What is funded?
Brief telephone consultation - your questions on innovation protection and possible funding will be answered by aws experts.
discover.IP offers an individual conversation (2-3 hours) on your innovation project with experts from the Austrian Patent Office and from aws.
Sector
All industries
Target group
All types of companies
Funding procedure/instrument
First come - First serve | Coaching
Submission deadline
At any time
Your contact persons:
What is funded?
Innovation and data protection strategies for your business model, intellectual property advice and costs.
Sector
all industries, especially technology-orientated industries and green technologies
Target group
Start-ups, small and medium-sized companies (all modules), large companies (AI Knowledge module only)
Funding procedure/instrument
Call | Grant, Coaching
Project volume
from EUR 20,000 - EUR 150,000 eligible costs with 50 % - 80 % grant (depending on module)
Project duration
up to 3 years
Submission deadline
At any time.
aws Innovation Protection - Green.IP: ongoing submission
aws Innovation Protection - AI knowledge: Currently no submission
Approval period
2 - 12 weeks
Success rate
75 %
aws Innovation Protection advanced - Implementation
It is no longer possible to submit an application. For ongoing projects, the required documents are available in the download area.
The aim is to support you in flexibly implementing in your company a property rights strategy developed together with you and to do so by strengthening your resources. This is aimed at Austrian-based companies from all sectors, especially innovative, technology-orientated companies.
aws Innovation Protection advanced - Green.IP
This funding offer is aimed at companies from all industries whose technologies or innovations can make a positive contribution to climate and environmental protection goals. The funding projects are designed to protect products and services from imitation through innovation protection measures and to secure competitive advantage (e.g., by filing patents or through other protective measures)
aws Innovation Protection advanced - AI Knowledge
It is no longer possible to submit an application. For ongoing projects, the required documents are available in the download area.
The aim is for aws experts to pass on the necessary know-how to local companies from the software and hardware industry in order to identify the intellectual property that they have created through their product development as such and to protect it from plagiarism, to defend against illegal imitators if necessary, and to find the best possible means of commercial exploitation. In addition, you will receive advice on how to contractually secure your intellectual property rights to AI training data.
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