MSME Innovative: Incubation, Design and IPR

Purpose:

MSME Innovative promotes innovation, incubation, product design and protection of Intellectual Property Rights among MSMEs and startups. Its IPR component supports awareness, advisory services, patentability searches, technology-gap analysis, IP commercialisation and registration of patents, trademarks, designs and geographical indications.

Benefits

• Support for business incubation and startup development.
• Assistance for prototype development and commercialisation.
• Design intervention and product-development support.
• Reimbursement for eligible patents, trademarks, geographical indications and industrial designs.
• IP advisory and patentability-search support.
• Mentoring through approved Host Institutions and Intellectual Property Facilitation Centres
• Assistance for a foreign patent may extend up to ₹5 lakh, subject to applicable guidelines

Key documents:

• Udyam Registration Certificate.
• PAN and Aadhaar details.
• Constitution or incorporation documents.
• Innovation, design or incubation proposal.
• Prototype or product-development information.
• Patent, trademark, GI or design application documents.
• Filing or registration acknowledgement
• Invoices, receipts and proof of payment
• Bank details and cancelled cheque.
• Declaration regarding financial assistance received from other sources.

How to apply:

innovative.msme.gov.in

1. Visit the MSME Innovative portal.
2. Select Incubation, Design or IPR.
3. Register or log in using enterprise or institutional details.
4. Complete the relevant application form.
5. Upload the proposal and supporting documents.
6. Submit the application to the designated Host Institution or implementing authority.
7. For IPR reimbursement, submit registration and expenditure details through the reimbursement facility.

Eligibility

• Udyam-registered MSMEs.
• Eligible startups and innovators working through approved Host Institutions.
• Recognised technical institutions, universities, colleges and incubation centres.
• MSMEs seeking reimbursement for eligible IPR registration expenses.
• Eligible Intellectual Property Facilitation Centres.

FAQ

What types of IPR are covered?

Patents, trademarks, industrial designs and geographical indications are among the supported categories.

Can an individual innovator apply directly?

Incubation proposals are generally routed through an approved Host Institution. Eligibility for IPR assistance is governed by applicable guidelines.

Is assistance provided before IPR filing?

IPR assistance is generally reimbursement-based and subject to proof of eligible expenditure and approval.

Beneficiary:

As mentioned above

Benefits:

Financial and institutional assistance for innovation, incubation, product design and protection of Intellectual Property Rights.