Innovate UK are now into Q4 of their 2016/17 delivery plan. While the next financial year of grants and funding are yet to be confirmed there are still a number of opportunities to fund your innovations. See below for the latest funding competitions through Innovate UK.?
Opening soon: Innovation in infrastructure systems - Round 2
The aim of this competition is to stimulate innovation in the infrastructure systems that provide critical services for our economy, environment and society.
Receive up to £3.5m
This competition has 4 priority areas:
- smart infrastructure
- energy systems (including nuclear fission and offshore wind)
- connected transport
- urban living
Solutions are required that make sure systems:
- are resilient to change and Âshocks (such as natural disasters or disease epidemics)
- are fit for purpose in the future
- provide optimal value for investment
Innovate UK is looking to fund a portfolio of projects. These may include technical feasibility, industrial research or experimental development.
Projects must show significant innovation in one of the priority areas.
Proposals must also improve business growth, productivity and/or create export opportunities for at least one UK SME involved in the project.
- Competition opens: 16th January 2017
- Registration closes: 15th March 2017
- Competition closes: 22nd March 2017
Opening in March - Innovation in Health and Life Sciences Round 2
Due to Innovate UK's 2016/17 delivery plan we expect Innovation in Health and Life Sciences Round 2 to open in March. It is expected that this round of funding will look similar to round 1 so Innovate UK's priority areas are:
- increase yield, quality and sustainability in agriculture and food production
- improve precision medicine, advanced therapies, preclinical technologies
- advance biosciences in healthcare and agriculture and food production
If you are currently considering a project within at least one of these areas and would like to discuss how grant funding could potentially support you with this development contact us.
Receive up to £175K
The aim of this competition is to help companies overcome intractable product, manufacturing or process performance problems through advanced measurement and analytical technologies.
Innovate UK are looking to fund projects that can show the negative business impact of an existing process or product variability.
Examples of the types of business problems include, but are not limited to:
- poorly understood structure and properties of emerging technology products where the business impact is high
- undesirable variation in product or process performance, where the root cause is not understood, but the negative business impact is high
- repeated unexplained product failures
- lack of precision in composition measurement or flow of multi-component systems, or processes
SBRI: integrated innovation for nuclear decommissioning - OPEN NOW
Receive up to £1.5m
The aim of this competition is to stimulate innovation in and reduce the cost of nuclear decommissioning. Projects should produce a step change in the decommissioning or dismantling process and address the following objectives:
- minimise human intervention
- increase productivity
- optimise waste treatment, packing and routing
Innovate UK are looking to fund projects that integrate technologies into a single platform, or a small number of platforms. These should be able to demonstrate multiple tasks in the decommissioning process with minimum human intervention.
If you are interested in any of the above competitions, please get in touch and find out more.
