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Innovate UK, as part of UK Research and Innovation, will invest up to £3.7 million in innovation projects. These will be to allow robust process design for the manufacture of advanced therapies.
The aim of this competition is to encourage inventors of advanced therapies to introduce affordable technology during early innovation stages. This technology will enable them to reproduce the manufacture of their product at a commercial scale.
Your proposal should describe how new tools will make the manufacture of the product less dependent on human operators. Industry co-funding must be contributed at a rate of no less than 50% of total project costs.
Your proposal must describe how you will demonstrate the following ‘Success Factors’ during execution. The international guidance will give further information on the bulleted list below.
Your project must:
You must show how your project will increase the productivity, competitiveness, capability or growth of at least one UK business involved in the project.
Projects should aim to work with bodies that generate standards, such as the National Physical Laboratory, the LGC Group (formerly Laboratory of the Government Chemist), BSI (British Standards Institute) or the National Institute for Biological Standards and Control.
State aid
Any UK business claiming funding must be eligible to receive state aid at the time Innovate UK confirm you will be awarded funding. It is not possible to award grant funding to organisations meeting the condition known as Undertakings in Difficulty. If you are unsure please take legal advice. For further information see our general guidance.
Your project
Your project’s total eligible costs must be between £1 million and £2 million.
Projects must start by 1 February 2020 and end by 31 March 2021. They can last between 12 and 14 months.
If your project’s total eligible costs or duration fall outside of our eligibility criteria, you must provide justification by email to support@innovateuk.ukri.org at least 10 days before the competition closes. Innovate UK will decide whether to approve your request.
Lead organisation
To lead a project your organisation must:
Academic institutions cannot lead.
Your project can include partners that do not receive any of this competition’s funding, for example non-UK businesses. Their costs will count towards the total eligible project costs.
12 August 2019 - Publication date
27 August 2019 - Competition opens
3 September 2019 - Online briefing event
25 September 2019 12:00pm - Competition closes
1 November 2019 - Applicants notified
Click here to discuss your application with one of our expert grant bid writers or visit Innovate UK to find out more.
This post was written by Marc Greatrex who is Director - Grants Division at Myriad Associates . Click here to read more about Marc and the Myriad team.
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