Tax-based research funding: The German Research Allowance Calculator

With the introduction of the tax research allowance, the Institute for Innovation and Technology (iit) within the VDI/VDE Innovation + Technik GmbH has developed the research allowance calculator as an information platform. The research allowance calculator has been publicly available since January 2020. The platform and the tool integrated into it for calculating a possible research allowance are aimed at companies, funding agencies and also associations. This simple access enables an initial discussion of the topic of research grants. In this way, the iit is helping to ensure that the research allowance is accepted as widely as possible and that companies are highly likely to benefit from the research allowance. The offer is available at www.forschungszulagenrechner.de (German only).