Up to £3million in small collaborative innovation projects will be invested by Innovate UK, as part of UK Research and Innovation including partnerships with:
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.
Your proposal must describe a measurement or analysis problem where you are seeking a solution to improve your businesses productivity or competitiveness. You must provide an estimate of the value to your business of solving it.
This is stage 1 of a 2 stage competition. No funding is awarded at this stage.
If you are successful at this stage, you will be invited to brokerage consultations with relevant analysis for innovators (A4I) partners. These will focus approaches to solving your problem. You will work together to propose joint projects to develop solutions.
Successful stage 2 applications will be grant funded, to work with the relevant partner organisations.
This competition is split into two strands. These are:
Eligibility
Your proposed project in stage two must:
You must only include eligible project costs in your application.
Under current restrictions, this competition will not fund any procurement, commercial, business development or supply chain activity with any Russian entity as lead, partner or subcontractor. This includes any goods or services originating from a Russian source.
You will be made ineligible if you exceed the Minimal Financial Assistance limit. You must submit a complete declaration as part of your application.
To lead a project or work alone your organisation must be a UK registered business micro, small or medium-sized enterprise (SME).
Subcontractors are not allowed in this competition.
The aim of this competition is to help businesses address their existing analysis and measurement problems. These are problems that are best explored by scientists and cutting-edge facilities available in the UK.
You must outline what you consider to be the benefits of solving your problem, such as improved productivity or competitiveness.
We will only consider problems that:
You must outline any methods and attempts that you have previously tried to address the problem. Do not propose how the problem should be solved.
Analysis problems cannot be simply software related, for example pure data analysis.
As part of your application you must include a short video, up to 2 minutes long.
You must use Innovate UK Analysis for Innovators (A4I) Video platform to record your video and then provide a link in your application
If we are unable to view your video, your application will be made ineligible.
We want to fund a portfolio of problems, across a variety of technologies, markets, and sectors.
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