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24/01/2018
Innovate UK Announces £19m Funding Competition
Innovate UK has announced a new £19 million innovation competition, aimed at supporting changes in productivity and cutting-edge innovation.
The latest competition has two strands:
• strand 1 for health and life sciences projects
• strand 2 for emerging and enabling technologies projects
Projects under strand 1 must show significant innovation in one of these priority areas:
• increasing agricultural productivity
• improving food quality and sustainability
• advanced therapies (cell and gene therapies)
• precision medicine
• medicines discovery
• advanced biosciences
Strand 2 projects must show significant innovation in one of four priority areas:
• emerging technologies (biofilms, energy harvesting, graphene, new imaging technologies)
• digital
• enabling capabilities, including electronics, sensors and photonics, robotics and autonomous systems, creative economy and design
• space applications
All projects must involve at least one small or medium-sized business, working alone or in collaboration with other organisations. Projects with costs over £100,000 must be collaborative and include a funded partner.
Deadline for applications to both strands of the competition is 28 March 2018.
A briefing event has been announced to take place at the Nanotechnology and Integrated BioEngineering Centre in Jordanstown on Friday 2 February 2018.
(MH)
The latest competition has two strands:
• strand 1 for health and life sciences projects
• strand 2 for emerging and enabling technologies projects
Projects under strand 1 must show significant innovation in one of these priority areas:
• increasing agricultural productivity
• improving food quality and sustainability
• advanced therapies (cell and gene therapies)
• precision medicine
• medicines discovery
• advanced biosciences
Strand 2 projects must show significant innovation in one of four priority areas:
• emerging technologies (biofilms, energy harvesting, graphene, new imaging technologies)
• digital
• enabling capabilities, including electronics, sensors and photonics, robotics and autonomous systems, creative economy and design
• space applications
All projects must involve at least one small or medium-sized business, working alone or in collaboration with other organisations. Projects with costs over £100,000 must be collaborative and include a funded partner.
Deadline for applications to both strands of the competition is 28 March 2018.
A briefing event has been announced to take place at the Nanotechnology and Integrated BioEngineering Centre in Jordanstown on Friday 2 February 2018.
(MH)
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