Productivity Enhancement and Lean Enterprise
Inclusive Market Development Project
Facilitating Access Program
Specialized Industrial Clusters
Professor For Every Factory
Intellectual Property Rights Production
Sectoral and Technical Services Experts
Enterprise Development Programmes
 
 
  Training Programme
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Scientific Research And Development Programme

IMC offers R & D funding to industry in cooperation with the Ministry of State for Scientific Research (MHESR) to develop and enhance competitiveness of the Egyptian products and to innovate new methods to solve problems of industry this is in addition to apply modern technology to different industrial fields. So far 60 R&D projects, serving different industrial sectors, have been approved for funding with a total budget of 42 million EGP.

The programme has different schemes according to the project nature as follows:

 

Scheme I
Scheme 2
Beneficiary
National Industry
Industrial Sector
Budget
Up to 5 million EGP
Up to 5 million EGP
Cost Distribution
100% MHESR
50% MHESR and 50% IMC
Field

Projects with general benefits to industry

Innovation Projects
New production technique

   
Procedures:

  • R&D idea to improve national industry requests via filled form No 1 "R&D service form" and send to the IMC email: researchrequest@imc-egypt.org or by hand to IMC R&D unit
  • IMC R&D unit prepares a suggested set of Call for Proposals
  • R&D Management Committee approves the final draft for the Call for Proposals materials and details
  • Launch Call for Proposals for a maximum of 30 days on the IMC website
  • Evaluate Proposals through Evaluation Committee to be assigned by IMC
  • In case any evaluator member refuses the proposal, the R&D management committee will make the final decision whether to accept or not or re-evaluate. A letter should be sent to the beneficiary with the final results
  • If the proposal passed consensually from all evaluators, the project will be ready for contracting Re-evaluation by MHESR and IMC R&D unit at milestones to continue or discontinue funding
  • In case of continued funding, the project will be funded by consecutive installments
  • Publicize the project results by IMC

 

 
Scheme 3A
Beneficiary
Egyptian Industrial Companies
Budget
Up to 1LE one million
Cost Distribution
50% MHESR, 30% IMC, 20% Industrial Company Or 50% Industrial Company and 50% IMC
Field

Product Innovation (design, prototype) - Product Development - Development
of Production methods

   
* In case the beneficiary chooses to keep the Intellectual Property
Rights.

  • R&D Idea through industrial company via filled form No 1 "R&D service form" and send to the IMC email:
    researchrequest@imc-egypt.org or by hand to IMC R&D unit
  • IMC R&D unit prepares a suggested set of Call for Proposals
  • R&D Management Committee approves the final draft for the Call for Proposals materials and details
  • Launch Call for Proposals for a maximum of 30 days on IMC web site
  • Evaluate Proposals through Evaluation Committee (each evaluation committee will be comprised of two independent researcher members and one requesting industry member)
  • In case any evaluator member refuses the proposal, the R&D management committee will make the final decision whether to accept or not or re-evaluate. A letter should be sent to the beneficiary with the final results
  • If the proposal passed consensually from all evaluators, the project will be ready for contracting
  • Re-evaluation by MHESR and IMC R&D unit at milestones to continue or discontinue funding
  • In case of continued funding, the project will be funded by consecutive installments
  • Impact evaluation for the research project by IMC
 
Scheme 3B
Beneficiary
Egyptian Industrial Companies
Budget
Up to 1.2 million EGP
Cost Distribution
50% IMC, 30% MHESR, 20% Industrial Company or 50% Industrial Company
and 50% IMC*
Field

Product Innovation (design, prototype) - Product Development - Development
of Production method

   

* In case the beneficiary chooses to keep the Intellectual Property
Rights.

Procedures:

  • R&D proposal through industrial company via filled form No 2 "R&D Project Proposal form" and send to the IMC email: researchrequest@imc-egypt.org or by hand to IMC R&D unit
  • Evaluate Proposals through Evaluation Committee (each evaluation committee will be comprised of one independent researcher member, one concerned IMC sector head member and IMC R&D unit manager)
  • If the proposal passed consensually from all evaluators, LoC should be issued and signed by IMC and Industrial beneficiary paying 20% of the total project value
  • Re-evaluation by MHESR and IMC R&D unit at milestones / lab scale or prototype to continue or discontinue funding
  • In case of continued funding, the project will be funded by 40% of the project value as a second installment
  • Final evaluation by MHESR and IMC R&D unit before the end stage of the project to continue or discontinue funding
  • In case of continued funding, the project will be funded by 40% of the project value as a final installment
  • Impact evaluation of the research project by IMC
 
Scheme 4
Beneficiary
Egyptian Industrial Companies
Budget
Up to 250 thousand EGP
Cost Distribution
50% Industrial Company 25% IMC25% MHESR
Field

Product Development

   

Procedures:

  • R&D proposal through industrial company via filled form No 2 "R&D Project Proposal form" and send to the IMC email: researchrequest@imc-egypt.org or by hand to IMC R&D unit
  • Evaluate Proposals through Evaluation Committee (each evaluation committee will be comprised of one independent researcher member, one concerned IMC sector head member and IMC R&D unit manager)
  • If the proposal passed consensually from all evaluators, LoC should be issued and signed by IMC and Industrial beneficiary paying 50% of the total project value.
  • A mid-term re-evaluation will be conducted by MHESR and IMC R&D to continue or discontinue funding
  • In case of continued funding, the project will be funded by 30% of the project value as a second installment
  • Final evaluation by MHESR and IMC R&D unit before the end stage of the project to continue or discontinue funding
  • In case of continued funding, the project will be funded by 20% of the project value as a final installment
  • Impact evaluation of the research project by IMC