Deadline: 1-Dec-21
The Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, will invest up to £12 million for businesses to develop innovative healthcare products, technologies and processes.
The aim of this competition is to explore and evaluate the commercial potential of an innovative scientific idea or carry out a technical evaluation through to proof of concept in a model system. Your project must focus on the development of a product or process that is an innovative solution to a health and care challenge
Focus Areas
Your project can focus on:
- 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
Thematic Areas
- Innovate UK particularly welcomes applications that support innovation in the following areas:
- child health technologies
- innovations that support clinical trials in the UK
- biomedical innovations that combat the threat of antimicrobial resistance
- Your project can align with one or more of the following:
- medical technologies and devices
- stratified healthcare
- advanced therapies such as gene and cell therapies
- digital health
- drug discovery
- diagnostics
Strands
This competition combines the feasibility and primer strands of the Biomedical Catalyst.
- Feasibility Award: The feasibility award is designed for projects that have developed an innovative concept or carried out experimental proof of concept but have not validated the technology. The aim of the feasibility award is to explore and evaluate the commercial potential of innovative ideas.
- Primer Award: The primer award is for conducting a technical evaluation of an idea through to proof of concept in a model system.
Funding Information
Your project’s total eligible costs must be between £50,000 and £1million.
Eligibility Criteria
- Your project must:
- have total eligible costs between £50,000 and £1million
- start on 1 April 2022
- end by 31 March 2024
- last between 3 months and 24 months
- carry out all of its project work in the UK
- 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 micro, small or medium-sized enterprise (SME)
- Academic institutions cannot lead or work alone.
- Project team
- To collaborate with the lead, your organisation must be one of the following UK registered:
- business of any size
- academic institution
- charity
- not-for-profit
- public sector organisation
- research and technology organisation (RTO)
- To collaborate with the lead, your organisation must be one of the following UK registered:
- Each partner organisation must be invited into the Innovation Funding Service by the lead to collaborate on a project. Once accepted, partners will be asked to login or to create an account and enter their own project costs into the Innovation Funding Service.
For more information, visit https://apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk/competition/1028/overview
