National Innovation Center (NIC)
Trung tâm Đổi mới sáng tạo Quốc gia (NIC)
Open continuously
No deadline — apply whenever you are ready.
Provides facilities at NIC Hoa Lac and Hanoi, incentives for tenant innovation businesses (including corporate income tax and land incentives under Decree 94), accelerator programmes run with corporate and international partners, and talent and investor matchmaking. Cash grants come through partner programmes rather than NIC directly.
Trung tâm Đổi mới sáng tạo Quốc gia, Bộ Tài chính (formerly Ministry of Planning and Investment)
public · national
Deadline: Open all year — Tenancy and partnership enquiries are rolling. Individual accelerator programmes run by NIC with partners have their own application windows.
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.
Major bid — written case, budget, possibly partners.
Who can apply
- Sectors: ai, deeptech, fintech, health, any
- Stage: pre-seed, seed and Series A
- Locally registered entity required
Vietnamese innovative startups and technology companies. Some NIC programmes are open to foreign companies establishing a Vietnamese presence.
How to apply
- Review the NIC programmes and facility offering.
- Submit an enquiry or apply to a specific NIC partner accelerator programme.
- Assessment and, for tenancy, negotiation of the facility agreement.
- Apply separately for the innovation-business incentives where eligible.
What you will need
- Company profile and business plan
- Enterprise registration certificate
- Technology description
- Application for innovation business recognition for tax incentives (if applicable)
Related reading: How grant deadlines actually work
Source. https://nic.gov.vn/ · not human-checked
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