Eligibility

Your project must:

• have total eligible costs up to £500,000

• start by 1 November 2022

• last between 12 and 18 months

• carry out all of its project work in the UK

• intend to exploit the results from or in the UK

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To lead a project or work alone your organisation must:

• be a UK registered business of any size

• involve at least one grant claiming SME

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Academic institutions and research organisations cannot lead or work alone.

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Any one business can lead up to 3 applications, but all applicants can partner in any number of applications.

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Scope

The aim of this competition is to advance the commercialisation of quantum technologies in the UK. Your proposal must identify a clear market opportunity and an innovative project which exploits it.

Your project must

• study a commercial opportunity

• quantify performance objectives

• provide a roadmap of future exploitation

• exploit second generation quantum techniques

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Second generation quantum technologies are defined as those involving the generation and coherent control of quantum states, resulting in phenomena such as superposition or entanglement. Innovate UK considers technologies involving single photon generation to be in scope.

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Your project must address one or more of the specific themes:

• Connectivity: techniques for securing data in storage and in flight

• Seeing the invisible: imaging, sensors and detectors for the environment, transport, autonomous systems, infrastructure, and healthcare

• Positioning, navigation, and timing: developing resilience and precision for situational awareness and time dissemination

• Computing: advancing quantum computing for addressing intractable problems through modelling & simulation, machine learning and optimisation

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During the application process, you must describe how you will collect project metrics, including:

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• investment in addition to the project partner matched funding

• additional capital investment aligned to or dependent on the project outcomes

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