Businesses can apply for a share of £15 million to develop technologies to stimulate future products, services and industries.

The aim of this competition is to help businesses broaden out innovation activities, to find new sources of revenue from new products, processes or services. Projects will:

• harness E&E technologies across the economy
• develop and scale-up research and development to bring ideas, processes and products closer to availability at scale and commercial release
• use design processes to understand customer motivations and behaviour and
• use that insight to create better products, services and processes

There are 2 options to apply into this competition, dependent on project size and length, these are referred to as streams. Stream 1 is for projects under 12 months duration and under £100,000. Stream 2 is for projects lasting longer than 12 months or costing over £100,000.

This competition opens on 3 October 2016.
You must register before noon on 30 November 2016.
You must apply before noon on 7 December 2016.

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