UK businesses can apply for a share of up to £7 million to explore and evaluate the commercial potential of a scientific idea to solve a healthcare challenge.
£250,000 – £4,000,000
Scope
Support the development of innovative healthcare products, technologies and processes.
For example: disease prevention and proactive management of health and chronic conditions; earlier and better detection and diagnosis of disease, leading to better patient outcomes and tailored treatments that either change the underlying disease or offer potential cures.
Eligible activities include the creation of data package that can support the subsequent testing of your products or carry out evaluations in a clinical setting or other relevant environment (e.g. laboratory proof of concept evaluation, prototyping, demonstrating of clinical utility and effectiveness, demonstrating of safety and efficacy and regulatory planning).
More information on eligibility can be found here.
UK businesses can apply for a share of up to £3 million to explore and evaluate the commercial potential of a scientific idea to solve a healthcare challenge.
£50,000 – £1,000,000
Scope
Support the development of a product or process that is an innovative solution to a health and care challenge.
The aim of this competition is to explore and evaluate the commercial potential of an innovative scientific idea or carry out a technical evaluation through to proof of concept in a model system.
This will be done by: reviewing research evidence and identifying possible applications; assessing business opportunities; assessing and/or protecting intellectual property; validating initial concepts and existing pre-clinical work through experimental studies; initial demonstration using in-vitro and in-vivo models (but not human clinical trials such as safety and efficacy); and early stage prototyping; preliminary regulatory advice.
More information on eligibility can be found here.
Highways England is investing up to £2 million for early stage feasibility studies.
Projects will be awarded up to £75,000 (including VAT) to develop innovative ideas and solutions to change the way UK roads are designed, managed and used.
Projects can focus on particular types of road (from all-purpose trunk roads to motorways) or types of road use (including public transport and freight).
The competition covers 6 themes: design; construction and maintenance; connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs); customer mobility; energy and environment; and operations and air quality.
Find out more here.
Highways England is investing up to £12 million to further develop an already proven concepts to prototype stage.
Projects can have total eligible project costs of up to £1 million (including VAT) to trial innovative ideas and solutions that will change the way UK roads are designed, managed and used.
Projects can focus on particular types of road (from all-purpose trunk roads to motorways) or types of road use (including public transport and freight).
The competition covers 6 themes: design; construction and maintenance; connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs); customer mobility; energy and environment; and operations and air quality.
More information can be found here.
Innovate UK, as part of UK Research and Innovation, will invest up to £20 million in the best game-changing or disruptive ideas with a view to commercialisation.
£25,000 – £500,000 (6 –18 months)
£25,000 – £2,000,000 (19 –36 months)
This competition provides funding for innovation research and development (R&D) from feasibility (including market research), through to technology or prototype testing and development stages up to (but not including) commercialisation.
Your proposal must demonstrate a clear game-changing and/or disruptive innovative idea leading to new products, processes or services.
Projects should be business focused, rather than pure research, and can focus on feasibility studies, which may include market research, industrial research, and experimental development, if appropriate for the challenge identified and proposed solution.
Applications can come from any area of technology (including arts, design, media or creative industries), science or engineering and be applied to any part of the economy.
More information about eligibility here
The UK Aerospace Research and Technology (UKART) Programme represents a £3.9 billion joint government and industry investment to maintain and grow the UK’s competitive position in civil aerospace.
This is an expression of interest competition.
Project scope
Must have a potential application within the civil aerospace sector
Priority areas include: whole aircraft design and integration, aerostructures, advanced systems, propulsion technologies
More information about eligibility here.
UK businesses can apply for a share of up to £2 million to develop reliable extreme environment grade electronics, sensors and photonics for robotics and AI systems.
Proposals should demonstrate a thorough understanding of whole system design requirements for RAI in extreme environments.
Extreme environments can include, but are not limited to, off-shore and nuclear energy, space and deep mining.
Technologies and innovations include, but are not limited to, sensing and actuation, on-board electronics, radio frequency electronics, power supplies, control systems and task-oriented payloads.
Applications must:
Total eligible project costs must be between £25,000 and £250,000.
More information can be found here.
