Deadline: 31-Aug-22
UK businesses can apply for a share of up to £3 million to resolve productivity and competitiveness problems, 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.
They will only consider problems that:
- are related to the measurement or analysis of some quantities or properties of an existing process, product or service
- are not effectively solvable by simple ‘off the shelf’ methods or techniques
Funding Information
- Your project’s total costs must be between £15,000 and £120,000.
- Up to £3 million has been allocated to fund innovation projects in stage 2 of this competition.
Eligibility Criteria
- Your proposed project in stage two must:
- have total costs of between £15,000 to £120,000
- start on or after 1st March 2023
- end by 31 August 2023
- last between 3 and 6 months
- carry out all of its project work in the UK
- intend to exploit the results from or in the UK
- involve at least one of the A4I partner organisations
- Lead organisation
- To apply, your organisation must be a UK registered business of any size.
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
- involved with primary production in fishery and aquaculture
- involved with primary production in agriculture
- not allowed under De minimis regulation restrictions
- not eligible to receive Minimal Financial Assistance’
- relating to the purchase of road freight transport
- 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 https://apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk/competition/1266/overview/17f05a0f-31f6-48f9-a4b1-70197e556ef2
