YOUNG INNOVATIVE COMPANIES PROJECT PLAN TEMPLATE
These instructions are intended for your guidance and describe the information that the project plan should include. The project plan will help Tekes to evaluate and monitor the execution of the project. The project plan should not exceed 10–15 pages. 
•	Introduction 
•	Description of the company and the market situation
•	General description of the project and the starting point
•	The project's connection to the company's business plan
•	Describe the share of business development that will be allocated to the YIC project funded by Tekes
•	Describe other potential operations supporting the business plan from outside the project, and their execution
•	The financing plan of the company and the project, external private funding, funders
•	Project tasks
•	The division of the project into subsequent sets of tasks
•	Describe the content of the tasks
•	Resourcing (total working hours, persons and purchased services)
•	Describe the goals of each task
•	Task schedule and task-specific total costs
•	Describe how the project tasks contribute to the goals set for the project
•	Project summary, e.g. a table
•	Overall schedule
•	Persons, their monthly salaries and time spent on the project
•	Purchased services – itemised by service provider; purchases within and outside the European Common Market area; potential purchases from foreign subsidiaries
•	Total cost estimate