How Electrolux successfully claimed the Research Allowance with innoscripta

Meet Electrolux

The Electrolux Group is a leading international manufacturer of home appliances that has been helping to improve people’s lives for more than a century. With a dedicated focus on reinventing taste, care, and wellbeing, Electrolux delivers meaningful experiences to millions of people globally. Their innovation journey spans kitchen solutions, wellbeing in the home, and fabric care, creating products that make everyday life easier and enjoyable.

In their portfolio of leading appliance brands, including Electrolux, AEG, and Frigidaire, the group sells household products across 120 markets yearly. In 2025, Electrolux Group achieved sales of SEK 131 billion and their workforce consists of approximately 39,000 people worldwide.

Sustainability is central to Electrolux's strategy and operations. The company continuously strives to create better and more sustainable living solutions. Based on their environmental and social sustainability achievements, Electrolux was rated an EcoVadis Gold company in 2024, placing them among the top 5% of more than 70,000 companies globally.

The Challenge: Uncertainty around research allowance eligibility

At the Electrolux production sites, innovation is central to developing high-quality products that meet global standards. However, when it came to research grants, the topic was long surrounded by uncertainty.

“The subject of the research allowance was initially a new field for us, but we quickly realised that it held strategic potential.” says Reinhold Eißner.

The questions about the opportunity arose mainly regarding the following elements:

• Eligibility of their products to apply for the research allowance
• Administrative requirements of the research allowance programme, and structuring the applications efficiently.

The Solution: Structured guidance and software support

The partnership with innoscripta answered and solved all the questions Electrolux had about obtaining the research allowance. Key support areas include:

• Personalised consultation based on the individual innovative projects
• Familiarising Electrolux with every aspect of the research allowance programme
• An effective R&D documentation process and efficient tracking of progress using the Clusterix platform

As a specialised partner, innoscripta guided Electrolux toward a streamlined process through close coordination. By mapping projects in detail and precisely defining technical challenges, innoscripta ensured all regulatory requirements were met for a successful outcome.

The Impact: Successful access to research allowance

With innoscripta's support, Electrolux was able to successfully claim the research allowance for multiple projects even retroactively, and to refinance a portion of their innovation costs.

The blend of expert guidance from innoscripta's team and the software platform, Clusterix, proved to be a major factor contributing to the success.

“The tool noticeably accelerated the process. It assists in capturing and processing the relevant data for the funding application and enables efficient tracking. For us, it was a genuine relief.”

Clusterix enabled a structured and audit-proof project documentation, and the transparent tracking of different project phases, funding applications and all other relevant information.

Conclusion

The collaboration between Electrolux and innoscripta, which began as short-term support for complex funding requirements, has evolved into a reliable partnership built on mutual respect. innoscripta’s support for Electrolux wasn’t limited to the operational needs of individual projects, but extended to establishing a sustainable process that enables the targeted and strategic use of research funding.

This collaboration illustrates how merging industrial innovation with a structured funding strategy leads to greater outcomes and accelerates the innovation process.