Innovate UK: Seeking Applications for Cutting-edge Technology Innovation

Deadline: 9 August 2017

Innovate UK is seeking applications for its project entitled “Cutting-edge Technology Innovation” to support disruptive innovation in any technology area with potential to generate growth.

Innovate UK has up to £15 million for game-changing, cutting-edge or disruptive innovation projects that leads to new products, processes or services.

Projects can come from any technology, science, engineering or industrial area. They can fit in with any of Innovate UK’s priority sectors – emerging and enabling technologies, health and life sciences, infrastructure systems, and manufacturing and materials – or be outside.

Funding Information

Total project costs can range between £25,000 and £1 million, and projects can last between 6 and 36 months

Eligibility Criteria

To lead a project applicants must:
- be a UK-based business
- be a business of any size
- carry out applicant’s project in the UK
- work alone or in collaboration with others (businesses, research base and third sector)
The competition is open to the best business-led cutting-edge or disruptive ideas or concepts with a view to commercialisation.
Priority will be given to proposals that are likely to lead to sustainable growth in productivity or develop products and services that will access new markets overseas. All projects should demonstrate the potential to generate commercial impact and economic growth.
To be in scope, a proposal must:
- demonstrate cutting-edge, game-changing or disruptive innovation leading to novel, new products, processes or services
- articulate a clear, anticipated growth and commercialisation impact for businesses with considerable, demonstrable potential (as you would set out in a pitch to any serious investor) to lead to a significant return on investment (ROI)