> There could be with gov subsidies
My company is incoporated in the EU. I tried getting a small subsidy of about 50k Euros through the Music Aire program [1].
I worked for a couple of weeks on the application and couldn't even get through the first round of evaluation. From the scores I received, my honest impression is the evaluators didn't have a clue or were too busy to pay attention or simply were told to focus on certain types of projects that would look good politically.
It was a long shot but it was quite disheartening to see a project that fit exactly the premise of the fund being discarded.