If you want to develop an innovative product, process or service, you may be able to apply for funding of between £25,000 and £10 million.

Innovate UK runs funding competitions which can help you develop your idea and make it successful. Competitions are open for projects led by a UK-based company. Funding is awarded to the winners of these competitions.

The organisations funded

You can apply for funding if you are a UK based business. All kinds of businesses can apply – from pre-startup and new companies to large multi-nationals.

Type of projects  funded

You can apply for funding if you want to do one or more of the following:

• to test the feasibility of your idea and make sure it will work
• create a new product, process or service, or improve an existing one, through research and development
• work with other businesses or research organisations on collaborative projects

Which Business Sectors are funded

There are opportunities for all innovative businesses their priorities are inthe 4 following sector groups:

Emerging and enabling technologies

• emerging technologies including biofilms, energy efficient computing, energy harvesting, graphene and new imaging technologies
• accelerated support for non-animal technologies, quantum technologies and synthetic biology
• enabling technologies including cyber security, data, earth observation, electronics, sensors and photonics, internet of things, robotics and autonomous systems

Health and life sciences

• precision medicine
• advanced therapies including cell, gene and others
• preclinical technologies
• improving agriculture productivity
• developing centres for agricultural innovation
• enhanced food quality
• biosciences

Infrastructure systems

• energy systems and supply
• transport systems
• urban living
• smart and resilient infrastructure

Manufacturing and materials

• digital technologies for manufacturing and materials
• manufacturing readiness at scale
• early stage manufacturing and materials concepts

Find current funding competitions

The Innovate UK web site has all the funding competitions available at https://apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk/competition/search
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