Science, Technology, and Innovation

Secretariat
Grant Application
Do not exceed word count restrictions indicated. All fields are compulsory unless qualified as
‘optional’
1a. TITLE OF YOUR VENTURE (IDEA TO MATURE ENTERPRISE
JOURNEY):

1b. Thematic Area

(Select one from drop-down)

2. VENTURE LEADER:

2a. NAME (LAST, FIRST, MIDDLE)

2b. INSTITUTION/BUSINESS (Type N/A 2c. PHYSICAL ADDRESS

if none)

2d. DEPARTMENT, LABORATORY OR

EQUIVALENT (Type N/A if none)

2e. E-MAIL ADDRESS

2f. TELEPHONE

3. SUMMARY OF YOUR VENTURE (In not more than 300 words,

describe your idea to mature enterprise journey):

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4. What innovation need are you addressing (In not more than 200
words, what gap/challenge/problem/need are you trying to
address?)

5. What good or service are your developing to address the

mentioned need? (In not more than 300 words, describe knowledge
based innovative product (good or service) that you have or will
develop and take to the market)

6. PREVIOUS IDEA TO MATURE ENTERPRISE JOURNEY

EFFORTS (Tick what you have achieved so far)
Venture steps Tick or shade GREEN color
the venture steps you have
accomplished
Phase 1: Idea to Prototype
1. Ideation and concept formation
2. Basic & exploratory Research
3. Proof of concept
4. Prototype technical validation
5. Prototype testing
6. Intellectual property registration
Phase 2: Prototype to a Viable
Product
7. Viable Product Development

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 8. Market Research and Analysis
9. Team Development and
Management
10. Corporate Formation
11. Business case, Model and
strategy Development
12. Licensing and certification
13. Technology Transfer
14. Establishment of a pilot plant
15. Supply Chain Development
16. Value Chain Positioning and
Optimization
17. Trial sales of viable product
Phase 3: Viable Product to
Competitiveness
18. Market expansion
19. Product Optimization
20. Process Optimization
21. Product Diversification
22. Mass Production
23. Mass sales of viable product
24. Reached Break Even Point
25. Attracted investors
26. Supply Chain Management
Phase 4: Commercialization
27. Running leading brand products
in market
28. Market Expansion
29. Getting profits
30. Selling shares (IPO)
7. WHAT DO YOU WANT TO ACHIEVE WITH THIS GRANT? (Tick
the key deliverables you intend to accomplish with this fund)
Venture steps Tick or shade RED color
the venture steps you
intend to accomplish with
this fund
Phase 1: Idea to Prototype

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 1. Ideation and concept formation
2. Basic & exploratory Research
3. Proof of concept
4. Prototype technical validation
5. Prototype testing
6. Intellectual property registration
Phase 2: Prototype to a Viable
Product
7. Viable Product Development
8. Market Research and Analysis
9. Team Development and
Management
10. Corporate Formation
11. Business case, Model and
strategy Development
12. Licensing and certification
13. Technology Transfer
14. Establishment of a pilot
plant
15. Supply Chain Development
16. Value Chain Positioning and
Optimization
17. Trial sales of viable product
Phase 3: Viable Product to
Competitiveness
18. Market expansion
19. Product Optimization
20. Process Optimization
21. Product Diversification
22. Mass Production
23. Mass sales of viable product
24. Reached Break Even Point
25. Attracted investors
26. Supply Chain Management
Phase 4: Commercialization
27. Running leading brand
products in market

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 28. Market Expansion
29. Getting profits
30. Selling shares (IPO)
8. OBJECTIVES (state the objectives that will lead you to key
deliverables with this fund)

9. METHODS/STRATEGY (In not more than 600 words, describe

how you will execute the objectives. Ensure you include 3-5 high-
level idea to mature enterprise journey stages and provide a short
description on how you plan to spend the Grant funds you are
requesting and how this leads you to the market e.g., product
development, product testing, product launch and marketing,
product mass production etc.)

10: OUTPUTS/VENTURE STEPS TO COMPLETE IN ONE YEAR (In

not more than 300 words, describe in detail the
deliverables/venture steps for this fund. Relate this to the idea to
mature enterprise journey steps as shaded/listed/ticked in section
7)

11. CONTRIBUTION TO UGANDA’S ECONOMY (In not more than

200 words, clearly explain the relevance of your VENTURE to
Uganda’s economy in relation to the NDP III/ Vision 2040, NRM
manifesto etc and potential income it can generate, jobs it can
create, import value it can reduce and export value it can bring in):

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12. TEAM OF INNOVATORS (List all senior/ key personnel. Start with Venture Leader.
List all other senior/key personnel in alphabetical order, in the format)
S Name Telephone Email Expertise Role in
N Contact venture

13. VENTURE TRACKER (You will be required to detail the Key milestones that you
will use to keep on track with your idea to mature enterprise journey achievements
planned for this funding.) Merge the venture step cells where possible to create
enough rows for the relative milestones.

Venture steps Milestones linked to Venture Month of Verifiable Track Source of

steps Completion Indicator verifiable track
indicator

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14. SUSTAINABILITY (Do you expect to generate money during
the first year of the Grant? How will the Innovation be
sustained in the medium and long-term? -200 words max)

16 RISK REGISTER/What risks do you anticipate during

execution? How do you plan to overcome them? (200 words)

s/n Risk Plan to overcome

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17 a. IS YOUR INNOVATION BEEN FUNDED BY ANY OTHER

SOURCE? (List all previous funding with source/amount received
for this venture)

17b. Complete the Budget Template. Ensure that both the Budget
and Justification are completed. Personnel Costs should not exceed
30% of the total budget. Full time equivalent. Rates should not
exceed 40% of the fulltime job pay.

Total Budget:

17c.
Attach the following
a) Budget, using the template Budget_Template. provided
b) Copy of Lead Applicant’s National ID
c) Registration Certificate (for Businesses)
d) Support letter from institution