Research and Development Cash Rebate Scheme

The Research and Development (R&D) Cash Rebate Scheme aims to reinforce the research culture among business enterprises and encourage them to establish stronger partnership with designated local public research institutions. Under the Scheme, a company will receive a cash rebate equivalent to 30% of its expenditure in two types of R&D projects -

  1. projects under the Innovation and Technology Fund (ITF) ("ITF projects"); and
  2. projects funded entirely by the companies and conducted by the designated local research institutions ("Partnership projects").

SMEs’ Research Output Support Series (Chinese only)

Submission of Application

Applications should be submitted to the R&D Cash Rebate Scheme Section of ITC in the form of hard copy in person or by post. For application details, please refer to the Application Guide.