Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, is investing up to £25 million in the best game-changing, and world leading ideas, designed for swift, successful commercialisation. Ideas need to be genuinely new and novel, not just disruptive within their sector.
Your proposal must be business focused, with deliverable, realistic, adequately resourced plans to achieve return on investment, growth and market share following project completion.
Applications can come from any area of technology and be applied to any part of the economy such as, but not exclusively:
Your project must:
- start by 1 January 2023
- end by 31 December 2025
- include at least one micro, small or medium-sized enterprise (SME) as the lead or a collaborative grant claiming partner
- carry out all its project work in the UK
- intend to exploit the results from or in the UK
An applicant briefing event took place on 3 May 2022, watch the recording of the event using the following link: APPLICANT BRIEFING - Innovate UK Smart Grant April 2022 - Zoom
The competiton closes at 11am on 27 July 2022.
For further information visit Competition overview - Innovate UK Smart Grants: April 2022 - Innovation Funding Service (apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk)