Deadline: 21-Dec-22
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £5 million. This is to support digitalised and automated technology innovation and implementation for pharmaceutical development and manufacturing. This funding is from Innovate UK.
The aim of this competition is to encourage the development and implementation of innovative digital and automated data collection technologies. This is to measurably increase the speed and resource efficiency of pharmaceutical process development and manufacturing productivity.
Specific Themes
- Your project must focus on one or more of the following:
- Lowering manufacturing costs
- Reducing environmental impact of medicines manufacturing
- Increasing patient access to products
- Increasing yield
- Increasing productivity
- Increasing speed of data processing
- Improving efficiency and remove bottlenecks
- Supporting process monitoring controls
- Supporting data collection and analysis
- Combining and use of data and metadata
- Gathering and effectively utilising information from across the supply chain.
Scope
- Digital and Automated technologies in scope for this competition include but are not limited to:
Data collection, integration and interoperability
- Laboratory automation
- Development lab of the future
- Digital twins
- AI-driven asset uptime and digital batch disposition
- Big data, ensuring full evaluation of data and real time decision making
- Training and upskilling via augmented reality and virtual reality
- Predictive and autonomous supply chain management including predictive yield optimisation and real time tracking and tracing
- Process analytical technology (PAT) and real-time release testing (RTRT).
Benefits
- Your proposal must deliver the following benefits:
- Drive economic recovery and levelling up by supporting job creation, skills development, and inward investment in digital and automated manufacturing nationwide
- Drive health security and patient benefit demonstrating improved productivity and reduced time to market
- De-risk the use of transformative digital and automated data collection technologies
- Address net zero and sustainability goals through novel manufacturing technology, showing how digital and automated data collection technologies can improve resource efficiency
- Support equality, diversity and inclusion via project initiatives and project outcomes.
Funding Information
- Your project’s total grant funding request must be between £100,000 and £1 million.
Eligibility Criteria
- Your project must:
- Have total grant funding requests of between £100,000 and £1 million
- Start by 1 June 2023
- End by 31 May 2025
- Last between 12 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 your organisation must:
- Be a UK registered business of any size, a research and technology organisation (RTO), charity, not for profit or public sector organisation
- Collaborate with other UK registered organisations
- Involve at least one micro, small or medium-sized enterprise (SME).
- 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 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:
Ineligible
- They are not funding projects that are:
- Large scale manufacturing robotic technologies
- 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/1355/overview/3e5f1333-9a4b-4abd-bc59-3ab3fb1f010e