UK Funding - (Innovate-UK)

Innovation Vouchers

  • Designed to encourage SMEs to look for new knowledge and help them to grow and develop

SMART awards for market research, prototyping and demonstration

  • Funding for innovation projects
  • For high growth SMEs
  • Used to assess commercial viability

Collaborative R&D Grants

  • Encourages businesses & researchers to collaborate
  • Co-funds partnerships between business and academia
  • Covers new product, process and services development

Feasibility Studies

  • Used to assess technical feasibility of a new idea

SBRI inter departmental research funds for specific challenges 

  • Provides opportunities for innovative companies to engage with public sector to solve specific problems

International Programmes

  • European programmes such as Horizon 2020, Eurostars, Eureka and M-Era-Net