Deadline: 29-Mar-23
Innovate UK is seeking applications for the Launchpad Funding Competition to support outstanding innovation projects led by businesses. Businesses must be active or growing their work activities in the advanced manufacturing innovation cluster centred on Liverpool City Region.
Your project must contribute to a sustainable, safe, advanced, agile and resilient manufacturing sector. Your innovation must make a significant contribution to at least one of the sector’s strategic imperatives:
- net zero and resource efficiency in the supply chain and manufacturing processes
- resilience and responsiveness, mitigating risks, interruptions, disruptions, and climate change
- technologically advanced and digital manufacturing supply chains and processes.
Specific Themes
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Your project can focus on one or more of the following core areas:
- materials for the future economy
- smart design
- resilient supply chains
- world class production
- longer in use and reuse
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Projects can also consider the following enabling areas:
- digital technologies
- clean energy
- proactive regulations and policy
- future skills
- networked relations
- evolving value models.
Funding Information
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Your project must:
- have a total grant funding request between £25,000 and £100,000
- start by 1 September 2023
- end by 30 September 2024
- last between 6 and 12 months
- intend to exploit the results from or in the UK
Eligibility Criteria
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Lead Organisation
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To lead a project your organisation must:
- be a UK registered micro, small or medium-sized enterprise (SME)
- be active or growing your work activities in the advanced manufacturing innovation cluster centred on Liverpool City Region
- have a demonstrable ambition for business growth.
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To lead a project your organisation must:
Ineligible
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They are not funding projects:
- submitted by applicants who led a successful application to the Launchpad Liverpool City Region MFA Round 1 competition
- that do not contribute to transforming the manufacturing sector
- where the work location does not add to the advanced manufacturing innovation cluster centred on Liverpool City Region
- that involve primary production in fishery and aquaculture
- that involve primary production in agriculture
- with activities relating to the purchase of road freight transport
- not allowed under De minimis regulation restrictions
- not eligible to receive Minimal Financial Assistance
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They cannot fund projects that are:
- dependent on export performance, for example giving an award to a baker on the condition that they export a certain quantity of bread to another country.
- dependent on domestic inputs usage, for example if they give an award to a baker on the condition that they use 50% UK flour in their product.
For more information, visit Innovate UK.
