January 2018 Sector Competition: Strand 2, Emerging and Enabling Technologies
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. This competition has 2 strands; this is the emerging and enabling strand, the other strand is health and life sciences.
Competition opened: Monday 22nd January 2018
Competition closes: 12 noon on Wednesday 28th March 2018
THIS COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED
Emerging and Enabling Technologies Grant Funding Competition – Overview
In this strand of the competition, Innovate UK will invest up to £9.5 million in innovation projects that inspire new products, processes and services. These should address challenges in emerging and enabling technologies. (A further £9.5 million is available in the Health and Life Sciences strand).
Project Requirements
The aim of this Emerging and Enabling Technologies grant funding competition strand is to help businesses to innovate, disrupt existing markets and find sources of revenue from new products, processes or services.
Projects must show significant innovation in one of 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
To be considered, proposals must have outputs that can be applied in more than one industry, sector or market. They must also improve business growth or productivity, or create export opportunities for at least one UK SME involved in the project.
Where possible, all projects should take customer and user needs into account to deliver more desirable and useful solutions.
To be eligible for funding you must:
- be a UK based business, academic, charity, public sector organisation or research and technology organisation (RTO)
- carry out your project work in the UK
- intend to exploit the results in the UK
The lead organisation must claim funding through this competition. If the project is collaborative, at least one other organisation in the consortium must also claim funding.
All projects must involve an SME. Only an SME can lead projects with costs up to and including £100,000.
Any one business or RTO may lead on one application and partner in a further 2 applications. If a business is not leading an application, they can be a partner in up to 3 applications. An RTO can only lead a project if no business in the consortium has the capacity to lead the project.
Project Size
Project total costs should be between £35,000 and £2 million. Projects should last between 3 months and 3 years.