Apply for Cyber Security Academic Start-Up Accelerator Programme

Deadline: 6 March 2019

Applications are open for Cyber security academic start-up accelerator programme year 3 phase 1 with an aim to identify the best commercial opportunities in academia in respect to cyber security.

Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, will work in partnership with the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) to invest up to £800,000 in innovative cyber security ideas coming from the academic research base.

Funding Information

The project’s total eligible costs must be between £5,000 and £32,000.

Eligibility Criteria

To be eligible for funding applicant must:
- be based in a UK academic institution
- have a cyber security idea
- be interested in the commercialisation of applicants idea
- have the support of their academic institution’s technology transfer office, or equivalent
Applicants academic institution can collaborate with other academic institutions. Collaborators can claim funding.
All individuals based in a UK academic institution are eligible, including but not limited to early career researchers and senior academic researchers.
The grant will be paid to the academic institutions at the end of each activity.
They will only fund projects that:
- are cyber security focused
- have a clear intention to commercialise
- are UK based
- have the support of their academic institution to commercialise