UK businesses can apply for a share of up to £19 million to develop innovations in health and life sciences or emerging and enabling technologies. A further £12 million is available for KTPs.
Competition opens: Monday 22 January 2018
Competition closes: Wednesday 28 March 2018 12:00pm
Innovate UK will invest in a share of up to £19 million in innovation projects that inspire new products, processes and services. These should address challenges in health and life sciences (H&LS).
A further £12 million is available to fund Knowledge Transfer Partnerships(KTPs).
Projects must show significant innovation in one of our priority areas:
- increasing agricultural productivity
- improving food quality and sustainability
- advanced therapies (cell and gene therapies)
- precision medicine
- medicines discovery
- advanced biosciences
This competition has 2 strands. This is the health and life sciences strand. The other strand is emerging and enabling.
Proposals must show how projects will enable a significant change in competitiveness and productivity for at least one UK SME involved in the project.