Deadline: 28-Oct-22
UK registered organisations can apply for up to £150,000. This is for a project to develop and manage the emergent innovation cluster for advanced manufacturing centred on Liverpool City Region.
The aim of this competition is to fund a project to develop and manage the emergent innovation cluster for advanced manufacturing centred on Liverpool City Region. Your proposal must demonstrate how you will support the innovation cluster.
Specific Themes
- Your project can focus on one or more of the following within the innovation cluster:
- Knowledge transfer to encourage the development of innovation and to speed its spread throughout the cluster and supply chains
- Strengthening local institutions and aligning around priority innovation programmes
- Helping to secure private finance for businesses in the innovation cluster, including leverage for public investments
- Supply chain development, including the capacity to absorb knowledge and innovation, and equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI)
- Producing case studies and promotional campaigns
- Integrating the activities of other relevant organisations
- Attracting people, businesses and investment into the innovation cluster.
Funding Information
- Your project’s total grant funding request can be up to £150,000.
Eligible Projects
- Your project must demonstrate how it will develop:
- Activities that meet relevant industry needs and generate innovation led economic growth
- An innovation cluster with greater innovation intensity, innovation maturity, and levels of collaboration, commercialisation, and investment
- A locally led narrative that provides a clear external profile
- An integrated community that sustains beyond the grant funded period
- Your project must:
- Use expertise relevant to the cluster’s location, specialisms, assets, organisations, and maturity stage.
- Gain the support of relevant organisations who will contribute to developing the innovation cluster.
Eligibility Criteria
- Your project must:
- Have total grant funding request up to £150,000
- Start by 1 May 2023
- Have a grant funded period that ends on 31 March 2025
- Carry out all of its project work in the UK, and have its impact in the advanced manufacturing innovation cluster centred on Liverpool City Region
- Intend to exploit the results from or in the UK.
- Lead Organisation
- To lead a project or work alone your organisation must:
- Be a UK registered business of any size, academic institution, a research and technology organisation (RTO), charity, not for profit or public sector organisation
- Demonstrate detailed knowledge of the needs of innovative businesses in the cluster and of innovation within advanced manufacturing
- Demonstrate the support of relevant organisations who can contribute to developing the innovation cluster, or explain how you would gain this
- To lead a project, you must partner with, subcontract, or demonstrate how you will work with the priority organisations within the cluster.
- To lead a project or work alone your organisation must:
Ineligible
- They are not funding projects that are:
- Fundamental research on innovation clusters.
- Requesting capital for a new facility or physical home for the innovation cluster management.
- Unrelated to advanced manufacturing innovation.
- Unable to demonstrate the support of relevant organisations who will contribute to developing the innovation cluster, or how they would gain this.
- Claiming in excess of the £150,000 grant limit.
- 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 https://apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk/competition/1316/overview/8061684e-98d6-41a5-8737-65b6bd687470
