Deadline: 24-May-23
UK businesses can apply for a share of up to £3 million to resolve productivity and competitiveness issues by working with top scientists and research facilities.
The aim of this competition is to match the best UK scientists and cutting-edge facilities with businesses that have complex analysis or measurement problems.
Details
Your application must:
- Meet the A4I problem scope requirements
- Relate to work being undertaken in the UK
- Intend to exploit the results from or in the UK
- Involve at least one of the A4I partner organisations
- Indicate a stage 2 project duration of between 3 and 6 months
- Indicate a stage 2 project start date of between 1 January 2024 and 1 April 2024
Scope
- They will only consider problems that:
- Are related to an existing process, product or service
- Are related to the measurement or analysis of some quantities or properties of your process, product or service
- Are not effectively solvable by simple ‘off the shelf’ methods or techniques
- You must outline any methods and attempts that you have previously tried to address the problem. Do not propose how the problem should be solved.
- Analysis problems cannot be simply software related, for example pure data analysis.
Eligibility Criteria
- Confirmation of your stage 2 project duration and start date will be agreed with your A4I partner during brokerage following a successful stage 1 application.
- Under current restrictions, this competition will not fund any procurement, commercial, business development or supply chain activity with any Russian and Belarusian entity as lead, partner or subcontractor. This includes any goods or services originating from a Russian and Belarusian source.
- In stage 2, some or all of your funding from this competition may be subject to Minimal Financial Assistance limits. You will be made ineligible if you exceed this limit. You must submit a complete declaration as part of your application in stage 2.
Ineligible
- They will not consider problems that are:
- Not measurement or analysis problems
- Ones they consider to be resolvable with easily available methods, such as those that do not require any innovative or cutting-edge science or facilities
- Solely computer software analysis problems, such as algorithms to analyse objects
- Not related to a company’s existing processes, products or services
- In the Stage 2 competition they will not fund any projects that are:
- Involved with primary production in fishery and aquaculture
- Involved with primary production in agriculture
- Relating to the purchase of road freight transport
- Not allowed under De minimis regulation restrictions
- Not eligible to receive Minimal Financial Assistance
- In the full stage competition, 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.
