Deadline: 4-Jan-23
UK businesses can apply for a share of up to £3 million to resolve productivity and competitiveness issues by working with top scientists and research facilities.
The aim of this competition is to match the best UK scientists and cutting-edge facilities with businesses that have complex analysis or measurement problems.
Innovate UK part of UK Research and Innovation will invest up to £3 million in small collaborative innovation projects working with their analysis for innovators (A4I) partners:
- The National Physical Laboratory (NPL)
- The National Measurement Laboratory (NML) at Laboratory of the Government Chemist Group (LGC)
- The National Engineering Laboratory (NEL)
- The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
- National Institute for Biological Standards and Control (NIBSC)
- National Gear Metrology Lab (GEARS)
- Newton Gateway to Mathematics
- Advanced Sustainable Manufacturing Technologies (ASTUTE 2020+)
- Henry Royce Institute (HRI).
They will only consider problems that:
- Are related to an existing process, product or service
- Are related to the measurement or analysis of some quantities or properties of your process, product or service
- Are not effectively solvable by simple ‘off the shelf’ methods or techniques.
Funding Information
- If successful at stage 1, your stage 2 project’s total costs must be between £15,000 and £120,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- To apply to this stage your organisation must be a UK registered business of any size.
- Your application must:
- Meet the A4I problem scope requirements
- Relate to work being undertaken in the UK
- Intend to exploit the results from or in the UK
- Involve at least one of the A4I partner organisations
- Indicate a stage 2 project duration of between 3 and 9 months
- Indicate a stage 2 project start date of between 1 July 2023 and 1 October 2023.
Ineligible
- They will not consider problems that are:
- Not measurement or analysis problems
- Ones they consider to be resolvable with easily available methods, such as those that do not require any innovative or cutting-edge science or facilities
- Solely computer software analysis problems, such as algorithms to analyse objects
- Not related to a company’s existing processes, products or services
- In the Stage 2 competition they will not fund any projects that are:
- Involved with primary production in fishery and aquaculture
- Involved with primary production in agriculture
- Relating to the purchase of road freight transport
- Not allowed under De minimis regulation restrictions
- Not eligible to receive Minimal Financial Assistance
- In the full stage competition, they cannot fund projects that are:
- Dependent on export performance, for example giving an award to a baker on the condition that they export a certain quantity of bread to another country.
- Dependent on domestic inputs usage, for example if they give an award to a baker on the condition that they use 50% UK flour in their product.
For more information, visit https://apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk/competition/1359/overview/8007f70f-d069-47bf-9d67-73f6ed918925
