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Technology Start-up Support Scheme for Universities (TSSSU)

大學科技初創企業資助計劃（TSSSU）

Status

Usually opens in February and March and April and May

Projected from the months this call usually opens — not a date the funder has confirmed.

Closed

Projected from the pattern of past calls — confirm on the funder's page before planning around it.

Amount
1,500,000 HKD

Up to HK$1.5 million per startup per year for a maximum of three years, provided through the startup's host university. Each participating university receives an annual allocation and runs its own internal selection.

Funder

Innovation and Technology Commission (ITC), Government of the HKSAR

public · national

Deadline: One call a year — Each of the participating universities (HKU, CUHK, HKUST, PolyU, CityU, HKBU, LingnanU, EdUHK and others as designated) runs an annual internal call, typically with deadlines in the first half of the calendar year.

Your odds
Not published

This funder does not publish a success rate. We rank it using the rate observed across similar programmes and label it as an estimate rather than implying we know.

Effort
major

Major bid — written case, budget, possibly partners.

Who can apply

Technology startups formed by current students, staff or graduates (usually within the past few years) of a participating Hong Kong university, or commercialising that university's research. Detailed criteria are set by each university.

How to apply

  1. Confirm the startup has the required connection to a participating university (founded by current students, staff or recent graduates, or using university technology).
  2. Apply through the university's knowledge transfer or entrepreneurship office during its internal call.
  3. University selection panel assessment.
  4. Award and funding agreement with the university.
  5. Progress reporting to the university, which reports to ITC.

What you will need

Related reading: How grant deadlines actually work · The EU SME definition (Recommendation 2003/361)

Apply on the funder's site

Source. https://www.itf.gov.hk/en/funding-programmes/nurturing-talents/tsssu/index.html · not human-checked

"TSSSU provides funding to universities to support their technology start-ups."

Verified on 14 August 2026

Source: www.itf.gov.hk

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