Organisational funding strategy

Maximise public funding potential with a structured, insight-driven strategy – powered by expert support and smart tools

Public Funding
Innovation Consultancy
Digital Innovation
Project Implementation

When innovation is central to your organisation, so is funding. Yet navigating public funding isn’t just about finding the right calls – it is about putting in place a process that aligns with your strategy, connects teams, and scales with your ambition. Many R&D-intensive organisations lack a system that does this well.

At PNO Innovation, we help you create a smart, structured, and insight-driven grant strategy – one that strengthens your portfolio, maximises financial and strategic benefits, and ensures your public funding efforts keep pace with your innovation goals.

That’s where our Organisational Funding Strategy services come in. We work with you to design a tailored, structured grant approach that connects your funding strategy to your internal innovation pipeline. It starts with a thorough assessment of your current setup, benchmarking your performance against competitors and potential R&D partners. From there, we help define the most effective process to manage and grow your grant portfolio.

You will gain access to expert consultants and powerful digital tools – designed to make grant management simpler and smarter. These include dashboards with financial information of your portfolio of funded projects. They help you in making the right decisions and – where necessary – tap into the right follow-up support: from identifying grant opportunities, to managing applications (such as tax incentives support, national funding support and european funding support), carry-out professional impact assessment analysis (CBA, GHG, LCA), and ensuring the proper execution of your projects.

With PNO Innovation by your side, you don’t just stay on top of funding – you turn it into a strategic advantage.

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Our systematic grant strategy and process is designed to help you build a comprehensive, forward-looking approach that maximises both financial and strategic value from public funding opportunities. We help you lay the foundation for a strong, scalable funding approach – starting with where you are today. Our process includes:

This helps you shape – or improve – an internal grant strategy that fits your innovation and funding goals.

  • Analysing your organisation’s current funding structure, ensuring it aligns with your corporate R&D strategy, open innovation pipeline, partnerships, and long-term objectives;
  • Benchmarking your funding performance against key competitors and value chain partners to identify gaps and opportunities.

We guide you in implementing an effective, efficient funding process that is built to deliver results. This includes:

  • A strategic dashboard to map, prioritise, and manage your portfolio of R&D and investment projects for funding;
  • Smart IT tools with real-time alerts on relevant public funding opportunities – linked to each project in your pipeline, and enriched with costs-benefits insights to support informed decision-making.
  • Expert guidance to define optimal public funding strategies for large or strategic projects, including combined use of EU, national, regional, and tax-based instruments.
  • IT-Tools and help-desk support to compare your performance with peers, assess value chain partners, and identify the right collaborators for joint funding or open innovation challenges.
  • Digital tools and expert input for tracking and managing the financial aspects of your publicly funded projects.

We ensure your grant strategy becomes a practical, effective process across your organisation.

What you get: a smarter way to manage your funding strategy

  • A full assessment and benchmark of your grant strategy and internal funding process
  • Helpdesk and coaching for strategy design and implementation
  • Strategic guidance on combining multiple instruments (e.g. EU + national funding + tax credits)
  • Support to track, manage, and improve the performance of your funding portfolio
  • A roadmap tailored to your organisation’s R&D, innovation, and investment portfolio

Access to smart IT tools:

  • Dashboards for project monitoring
  • Alerts for matching funding calls
  • Competitive benchmarking and partner insights
  • Grant scoring and prioritisation tools

1300+
large corporates supported with funding strategy and grant acquisition

800+
public funding programs tracked via our IT platforms

43+
million searchable innovation organizations in our databases

Why choose PNO Innovation?

Pan-European footprint Pan-European footprint

With a footprint in 10 European countries and decades of experience, we support large corporates, universities, and research organisations with customised strategies that work in complex environments.

Proven expertise Proven expertise

Our consultants combine in-depth knowledge with hands-on experience. You benefit from a proven track record in securing public funding in all innovation domains and sectors – with consistently above-average success rates for our corporate clients.

Digital innovation Digital innovation

Gain access to proven, in-house digital tools that improve strategic grant portfolio management of public funding – offering AI-supported funding intelligence, clear visualisation of your project and funding data, and dashboards that support fast, informed decision-making.

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