Small businesses can receive up to 5 million rubles for the development of medical devices

The competition is held by the Ministry of Industry and Trade together with the Innovation Assistance Fund under the federal project "Development of the production of the most popular drugs and medical products" of the national project "New technologies for preserving health". Another condition for participation is that the applicant should not have received financial support from the fund earlier.

Applicants can submit applications until June 2, 2025, and winners will have to implement their projects within 12 months.

The organizers noted that the goal of the competition is "the creation of new and support of small innovative companies at the initial stage of development" that seek to master the production of new in-demand products, technologies or services. Sergey Polyakov, CEO of the Foundation for Assistance to Innovations, explained that an enterprise with the status of a small technology company can count on one additional point during the consideration of the application.

In March 2025, it became known that the Agency for Technological Development issued a total of 2 billion rubles in grants for reverse engineering and medical component programs. In 2025, a further expansion of the number of supported projects is planned.

In February of the same year, the Moscow Department of Health issued an order to conduct an experiment on the use of digital innovative technologies in the healthcare sector. According to the document, developers of healthcare technologies can receive up to 4 million rubles for testing their solutions in seven areas: services for patients, remote health monitoring, computer vision, analysis and processing of medical documentation, automated systems for supporting the activities of medical organizations, digital solutions for the healthcare system, innovations for operating rooms.