UK businesses can apply for a share of up to £19 million to develop innovations in emerging and enabling technologies or health and life sciences. 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 up to £19 million in innovation projects that inspire new products, processes and services. These should address challenges in emerging and enabling technologies.
The aim of this competition is to help UK businesses broaden their innovation activities, disrupt existing markets and find new revenue sources.
A further £12 million is available to fund Knowledge Transfer Partnerships(KTPs).
Projects must show significant innovation in one of our 4 priority areas:
- Emerging technologies (biofilms, energy harvesting, graphene, new imaging technologies).
- Digital.
- Enabling capabilities, including electronics, sensors and photonics (ESP), robotics and autonomous systems (RAS), creative economy and design.
- Space applications.
This competition has 2 strands. This is the emerging and enabling strand. The other strand is health and life sciences.
If you are a business, you can carry out the project on your own or you can collaborate with others. A business or research and technology organisation (RTO) must lead the project. If your project size falls outside of our scope, contact us before you apply.