Advanced Industries Collaborative Infrastructure Grant

Funder: Colorado Office of Economic Development & International Trade

The Advanced Industries Collaborative Infrastructure Grant, offered by the Colorado Office of Economic Development & International Trade, aims to bolster collaborative projects across key advanced industries in Colorado. With funding up to $500,000, the grant seeks to enhance industry infrastructure, promote partnerships, and support innovation. Eligible applicants must engage multiple partners, provide matching funds, and demonstrate sustainability beyond the grant, ensuring impactful contributions to the state's economic landscape.

The Advanced Industries Collaborative Infrastructure Grant funds collaborative projects that will have broad industry-wide impacts across one or more of Colorado's advanced industries. Projects fill a gap in the advanced industries and have multiple, collaborative partners  Colorado’s advanced industries are:

• advanced manufacturingaerospacebioscienceelectronicsenergy and natural resourcesinfrastructure engineeringtechnology and information

This grant's goal is to accelerate the commercialization and innovation of advanced industry products and services by building infrastructure for the advanced industries ecosystem. This program aligns private industry and research institutions to create public resources for the development of the advanced industries in Colorado. This funding cannot be used to support an individual business' infrastructure needs.
Collaborative projects can receive up to $500,000. This grant award maximum can be lifted for projects that impact more than one advanced industry.

Eligibility

To be eligible, you need to:develop industry infrastructure necessary to grow at least one Colorado advanced industry collaborate with several industry partners including a nonprofit organizationprovide matching $2-to-$1 non-State funding to State funding (For example, if you request a grant of $50,000, you need to identify $100,000 in cash from other sources.)identify funding beyond this grant for your project’s current and future operational costsbe registered with the Colorado Secretary of State and in Good Standing

Ineligibility

This grant is not for existing programs or operational costs.