Innovate UK has millions of pounds to invest in innovative UK
businesses up to April 2018.
The funding will be awarded through competitions in a range of
areas, which will open for applications in the coming months.
Businesses can also apply into an open funding competition with
ideas for any game-changing or disruptive innovations.
Opportunities for funding
Emerging and enabling technologies and health and life sciences
Up to £19 million will be invested to support productivity and
cutting-edge innovation across these 2 industry sectors.
In the area of health and life sciences, we will seek projects
that show significant innovation in one of the following:
- increasing agricultural productivity
- improving food quality and sustainability
- advanced therapies, such as cell and gene therapies
- precision medicine
- medicines discovery
- advanced biosciences
For emerging and enabling technologies, projects should focus on
an Innovate UK priority area:
- emerging technologies
- digital
- enabling capabilities
- space applications
Open programme
A share of up to £19 million will be available for game-changing
or disruptive innovations that have the potential to impact the
UK economy.
Projects may come from an Innovate UK industry sector
- emerging and enabling
technologies, health and life
sciences, infrastructure
systems and manufacturing and
materials - or be outside of them.
Biomedical catalyst
This is the first biomedical catalyst competition of 2018, which
will offer up to £12 million to SMEs working on projects that
solve healthcare challenges. These could include:
- disease prevention and proactive management of health and
chronic conditions
- earlier and better detection and diagnosis of disease,
leading to better patient outcomes
- tailored treatments that either change the underlying disease
or offer potential cures
Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund: Faraday Battery Challenge
The Faraday Battery Challenge supports the design, development
and manufacture of batteries for the electrification of vehicles
as part of the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund.
In this second round of innovation funding up to £25 million will
be invested in projects that stimulate new automotive battery
technologies and build the supply chain in the UK.
Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund: digital health technology
catalyst
Up to £10 million will be available under the digital health
technology catalyst, which is part of the Industrial Strategy
Challenge Fund.
We will seek projects that support the development of digital
health products or digitally-enabled medical technologies, which:
- improve patient outcomes
- transform healthcare delivery
- enable more efficient delivery of healthcare
Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund: robotics
Up to £20 million will be available in this competition. It is
being funded as part of the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund
for robotics and artificial intelligence in extreme environments.
This challenge aims to take people out of extreme work
environments such as deep mining, nuclear, space and offshore
energy.
Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund: medicines manufacturing
Innovate UK is investing up to £10 million in innovation projects
in medicines manufacturing through the Industrial Strategy
Challenge Fund.
We will be seeking collaborative research and development
projects that focus on the technical or commercial challenges of
manufacturing new medicines.
