How the Innovation and Technology Fund is organised — R&D, technology adoption, new industrialisation, talent and start-ups — and where AI fits.
dgm is an independent osFoundry integration partner — not affiliated with osFoundry’s maker (OS LLC), and dgm has no completed client integrations yet.
The Innovation and Technology Fund is not one grant but a set of categories. Knowing which category fits your AI project saves wasted applications.
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Supporting R&D | Genuine research and development projects |
| Technology adoption | Deploying technology in your business |
| New industrialisation | Smart production lines (NIFS) |
| Talent / start-ups | Building skills and supporting new ventures |
The ITF categories
The Innovation and Technology Fund is organised into categories: supporting R&D, facilitating technology adoption, promoting new industrialisation (which includes NIFS), nurturing technology talent, and supporting technology start-ups. AI and robotics are among the fund’s strategic focus areas.
Matching your project to a category
Genuine research belongs in the R&D category; deploying technology in your business fits adoption; smart manufacturing fits new industrialisation; building skills fits talent. Note that the Technology Voucher Programme (TVP), Hong Kong’s best-known SME tech-adoption funding, stopped accepting new applications after 31 December 2024 — so it is not an active route for a new AI project, despite many older blogs still listing it. Matching correctly is the difference between a fitting application and a wasted one.
How to start
Identify your category, then find the specific programme under it. Support levels, caps, eligibility and round status change — confirm the current details on the official programme page before relying on them. Important: these are programmes a business applies for directly with the relevant Hong Kong authority. dgm is an independent AI-integration agency — it is not a registered or approved vendor of any of these schemes (none of them operates a vendor registry), so nothing here implies dgm can secure or deliver a grant-funded engagement. dgm can help scope and build the AI project; eligibility, approval and any claim rest with you and the agency.
Where dgm fits
dgm is an independent integration partner that helps Hong Kong businesses adopt osFoundry — scoping a first use case, handling the build, and connecting AI to the systems you already run. dgm is independent of osFoundry’s maker (OS LLC) and has no completed client integrations yet, so everything described here is a service offered, not a past result. If you want to scope a practical first project, dgm can help you map it out.