Deadline: 28-Oct-22
UK registered organisations can apply for up to £150,000. This is for a project to develop and manage the emergent net zero innovation cluster centred on Tees Valley.
Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, will invest up to £150,000 in a single innovation project.
The aim of this competition is to fund a project to develop and manage the emergent net zero innovation cluster, centred on Tees Valley. Your proposal must demonstrate how you will meet this aim.
Specific Themes
- Your project can focus on one or more of the following within the innovation cluster:
- Knowledge transfer to encourage the development of innovation and to speed its spread throughout the cluster and supply chains
- Strengthening local institutions and aligning around priority innovation programmes
- Helping to secure private finance for businesses in the innovation cluster, including leverage for public investments
- Supply chain development, including the capacity to absorb knowledge and innovation, and equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI)
- Producing case studies and promotional campaigns
- Integrating the activities of other relevant organisations
- Attracting people, businesses and investment into the innovation cluster.
Funding Information
- Your project’s total grant funding request can be up to £150,000.
Eligible Projects
- Your project must demonstrate how it will develop:
- Activities that meet relevant industry needs and generate innovation-led economic growth
- An innovation cluster with greater innovation intensity, innovation maturity, and levels of collaboration, commercialisation, and investment
- A locally led narrative that provides a clear external profile
- An integrated community that sustains beyond the grant funded period
- Your project must:
- Use expertise relevant to the cluster’s location, specialisms, assets, organisations, and maturity stage.
- Gain the support of relevant organisations who will contribute to developing the innovation cluster.
- Build on previous investments into the net zero innovation cluster, including from Innovate UK’s Industrial Decarbonisation Challenge.
Eligibility Criteria
- Your project must:
- Have total grant funding request up to £150,000
- Start by 1 May 2023
- Have a grant funded period that ends on 31 March 2025
- Carry out all of its project work in the UK, and have its impact in the net zero innovation cluster centred on Tees Valley
- Intend to exploit the results from or in the UK.
- Lead Organisation
- To lead a project or work alone your organisation must:
- Be a UK registered business of any size, academic institution, a research and technology organisation (RTO), charity, not for profit or public sector organisation
- Demonstrate detailed knowledge of the Tees Valley net zero cluster and the needs of businesses within the cluster
- Demonstrate the support of relevant organisations who can contribute to developing the innovation cluster, or explain how you would gain this
- To lead a project, you must partner with, subcontract, or demonstrate how you will work with the priority organisations within the cluster.
- To lead a project or work alone your organisation must:
Ineligible
- They are not funding projects that are:
- Fundamental research on innovation clusters
- Requesting capital for a new facility or physical home for the innovation cluster management
- Unrelated to net zero innovation
- Unable to demonstrate the support of relevant organisations who can contribute to developing the innovation cluster, or how they would gain this
- Claiming in excess of the £150,000 grant limit
- They cannot fund projects that are:
- Dependent on export performance, for example giving a subsidy to a baker on the condition that it exports a certain quantity of bread to another country
- Dependent on domestic inputs usage, for example giving a subsidy to a baker on the condition that it uses 50% UK flour in their product.
For more information, visit https://apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk/competition/1326/overview/446503f9-f4fd-4439-a995-6e99033d7cfc
