Innovate UK is offering 6 businesses up to £30,000 (excluding VAT) each to encourage innovation in the sharing economy, across the themes of trust, tourism and travel, opening up new sectors, home improvement, construction, and data and analytics.
Through our IC tomorrow programme, we are looking for proposals from companies with innovative digital ideas relevant to the sharing economy. The companies will not only benefit from funding, but also have the opportunity to collaborate with commercial partners to accelerate development of their technologies.
We want to see digital solutions with potential appeal to a wide commercial market. Successful applicants will be expected to trial their proposed solutions with their industry partners for at least 3 months.
Contest opens
Monday 7 March 2016
Briefing event
Wednesday 16 March 2016 – London
Submission deadline
Noon Tuesday 12 April 2016
Finalists notified
Friday 6 May 2016