You're right about the system being tailored toward Big Co. Yet I've seen SME managing to get subsidies. There are tricks and shortcut. Networking is key here

You're right about the system being tailored toward Big Co. Yet I've seen SME managing to get subsidies. There are tricks and shortcut. Networking is key here to find out about them. I've seen a lot of startups joining up to have access to bigger founds they would have had alone. It also split the bureaucracy burden as it is in everyone interest to succeed so paperwork is mutualised. So, yeah, it's different. Not impossible.