Deadline: 2-Aug-23
£3 million is available for UK registered SMEs and eligible partners from Innovate UK and Medical Research Council for business led R&D projects, delivering industrial innovation through academic collaboration in Digital Health, for the UK and South Korea.
Your project must demonstrate:
- a clear game changing or disruptive innovative idea linked to knowledge generation which contributes towards the understanding of human health conditions and leading to new products, processes or services.
- improvement to the prevention, diagnosis, prognosis or treatment of significant health needs
- meaningful collaboration and transfer of knowledge between academic, RTO and business project partners.
- a clear, evidence based business case that addresses and documents market potential and needs and that sets out the return on investment.
- good value for money which will always be a consideration in Innovate UK and MRC funding decisions.
- clear potential to benefit the UK economy or national productivity.
- the benefits to participants from the countries working together.
Themes
- Your project must focus on digital health. This may include digital tools, technologies, and solutions to improve health. These technologies include a wide range of devices, software, and platforms that leverage digital and mobile technologies.
- Examples of areas of focus include:
- developing tools for improving analysis of medical imaging or data for clinical diagnosis, risk identification, patient stratification and disease monitoring;
- data platforms for better integration of electronic health records, including opportunities for the use of data for further research;
- tools to support point-of-care diagnosis and surveillance modeling;
- digital tools to support management of diseases and delivery of psychological therapies.
Funding Information
- UK applicants can apply for up to a maximum grant of £750,000 for each project.
Eligibility Criteria
- Your project
- Your project must:
- start by 1st November 2023
- end by 30 April 2026
- last between 24 and 30 months
- UK project partners must carry out the majority of their project work in the UK and intend to exploit the results from or in the UK.
- The consortium must include at least two eligible organisations registered in South Korea that are separate, non-linked entities.
- Your South Korean partners will not receive any of this UK competition funding. South Korean partners will be funded by KHIDI.
- South Korean partners must be separately listed in the application to KHIDI. Only UK registered partners must be listed in the Project Partner section of this application.
- All organisations in a consortium must be separate legal and non-linked entities. This is to ensure that projects encourage genuine international collaboration, not internal company research. Linked companies are considered a single entity under the parent company.
- Your total project costs should be broadly the same as those of the South Korean component of the project, ensuring an approximate balanced sharing of project costs across the two sides of the project.
- You must only include eligible project costs in your application.
- Under current restrictions, this competition will not fund any procurement, commercial, business development or supply chain activity with any Russian and Belarusian entity as lead, partner or subcontractor. This includes any goods or services originating from a Russian and Belarusian source.
- Your project must:
- Lead organisation
- To lead a project your organisation must:
- be a grant claiming UK registered micro, small or medium-sized enterprise (SME);
- collaborate with a UK registered academic or research and technology organisation (RTO);
- collaborate with at least two eligible South Korean registered organisations, which must be separate non-linked entities to the UK project partners.
- To lead a project your organisation must:
- Project team
- To collaborate with the lead, your organisation must be one of the following UK registered:
- micro, small or medium-sized enterprise (SME)
- academic institution
- research and technology organisation (RTO)
- To collaborate with the lead, your organisation must be one of the following UK registered:
- Subcontractors
- Subcontractors are allowed in this competition and are limited to no more than 20% of the total eligible costs of the UK participation.
- Subcontractors can be from anywhere in the UK and you must select them through your usual procurement process.
Ineligibility Criteria
- They will not fund projects that:
- deliver any non-civilian applications;
- deliver dual use intellectual property (IP);
- are not in scope;
- do not meet Innovate UK’s eligibility criteria;
- do not submit all mandatory documentation; and
- have a grant request of more than £750,000 from Innovate UK.
- 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 Innovate UK.