The competition countdown is on...don't miss out!

Receive up to £700,000

You must:

• demonstrate transformational or disruptive innovation leading to novel, new products, processes or services
• articulate a clear, anticipated growth and commercialisation impact for the business(es) with considerable, demonstrable
• be a UK-based business
• be a business of any size
• carry out your project in the UK
• work alone or in collaboration with others ?

 Projects can focus on:

• feasibility studies which may include a proof of market
• industrial research
• experimental development depending on the challenge identified and proposed solution

 Other details:

Projects may last between 6 and 36 months. Total eligible project costs should range from £25,000 to £1 million depending on the type of R&D to be undertaken.

• This competition is open now
• Competition closes 8th February 2017

 For more information, click here.

Get ready for 16th January 2017, its back… 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 ‘shocks’ (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

 For more information, click here.

The aim of this solar competition is to improve Europe’s market share in solar photovoltaic (PV) and concentrating solar power (CSP) technologies.

Receive a share of £455,000

The joint, co-funded competition is a transnational call for research and development (R&D) proposals. Projects should support the rapid development and implementation of solar technologies within the defined scope. Proposals should include R&D for the technology readiness levels (TRL) 4 to 7.

From a UK perspective, the following topics will be considered:

• innovative and low-cost PV manufacturing issues
• advanced PV products and applications
• PV system integration
• aspects of CSP cost reduction and system integration

 This competition is open now and closes on 20th February 2017.

For further information and guidelines, click here.

Why work with us? You mean you don’t know already?

To illustrate, at the end of October, we received some very exciting news for us and of course our clients.

In the last round of Innovate UK’s Manufacturing and materials competition, we submitted three applications and received the results at the end of last month.

The results were as follows:

100% for TBAT!

 That’s right, all three of our applications were awarded funding.  And not just that, the total that our clients will receive is a whopping:

£0.5 Million

...and we could do the same for you too!

If any of these competitions are of interest to you, or if you’d like to discuss how we can help your business with funding, R&D Tax Credits or on a Consultancy basis, please get in touch.