Deadline: 13-Apr-22
Innovate UK is inviting applications from eligible applicants for the January 2022 Smart Grants.
Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, is investing up to £25 million in the best game-changing and commercially viable innovative or disruptive ideas. All proposals must be business focused.
Applications can come from any area of technology and be applied to any part of the economy, such as, but not exclusively:
- net zero
- health and wellbeing
- technologies
- the arts, design and media
Funding Information
- Projects of 6to18 months must have total eligible project costs between £100,000 and £500,000 and can be single or collaborative.
- Projects of 19to36 months must have total eligible project costs between £100,000 and £2 million and must be collaborative.
Eligibility Criteria
- Lead organisation
- To lead a project your organisation must:
- be an SME if you want to work alone
- be a UK registered business of any size or a research and technology organisation (RTO) if collaborative
- include at least one SME if you are a large business or RTO and wish to collaborate with other UK registered businesses, research organisations, academic organisations, public sector organisations or charities
- claim grant funding
- carry out all your project work in the UK
- intend to commercially exploit the results from or in the UK
- Academic institutions cannot lead or work alone.
- To lead a project your organisation must:
Project team
- To collaborate with the lead, your organisation must be one of the following UK registered:
- business
- academic institution
- charity
- not-for-profit
- public sector organisation
- research and technology organisation (RTO)
For more information, visit https://apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk/competition/1087/overview#summary