Deadline: 31-Aug-20
British High Commission is seeking applications for New UK-India med-tech programme to fight COVID-19.
The UK government and Andhra Pradesh MedTech Zone (AMTZ) have joined forces to plug the gap between the demand and supply of ventilators and essential medical equipment to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.
AMTZ is an enterprise under the Government of Andhra Pradesh dedicated for medical device manufacturing. It has reserved 100,000 square feet rent-free manufacturing space for start-ups to facilitate quick commercialisation of successful solutions. It has been contracted by the Government of India for the manufacture of ventilators and other essential medical equipment such as masks, PPE, testing kits, etc. MediValley is the incubation and innovation arm of AMTZ, funded by NITI Aayog, as Atal Incubation Council.
Selected start-ups will be hosted at AMTZ’s MediValley incubation centre, receiving financial, technical and infrastructure support necessary to make their equipment market-ready. The programme is part of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed recently between the UK government and AMTZ. The MoU aims to boost med-tech collaboration between the two countries by creating direct research and development linkages between UK companies and AMTZ’s manufacturing and testing facilities, and to the wider Indian healthcare market.
Innovative Indian med-tech start-ups are invited to apply to be a part of the new 5.6 million manufacturing support programme.
Eligibility Criteria
The call for applications is open to all Indian start-ups, MSMEs and innovators. This includes those at prototype, development, pilot, validation, early traction, and scaling stages.
For more information, visit https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-uk-india-med-tech-programme-to-fight-covid-19
