There are currently several UK funding schemes that can help to finance your R&D and innovation activities. PNO has an excellent track record in helping organisations successfully apply for these R&D grants, with a success rate 5 times higher than the national average. The programmes listed are by no means fully comprehensive, so for further information regarding the types of scheme available specifically for you, please contact our consultancy team. Further information regarding available calls can also be found using PNO’s innovation platform, Innovation Place.
UK registered SMEs can apply for a share of up to £15 million to develop innovative solutions to health, and healthcare, challenges. The industry led R&D stream supports pre-market R&D projects. You must be able to demonstrate existing evidence of commercial and technical feasibility.
Deadline: 16th October 2024, 12pm
Deadline: 16th October 2024, 12pm
UK registered organisations who are developing innovations in sustainable medicines manufacturing can apply for a share of up to £15 million from Innovate UK and the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC). This funding is part of the Sustainable Medicines Manufacturing Programme, and the competition aims to drive innovation across the following three key pillars: green chemistry, circularity, and productivity and resource efficiency. Projects must be collaborative.
Competition closes: 16th October 2024, 12pm
Competition closes: 16th October 2024, 12pm
The aim of this competition is to accelerate the commercialisation of position, navigation and timing measurement products relying on quantum technologies.
Competition closes: 9 October 2024, 11am
Competition closes: 9 October 2024, 11am
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £2 million to develop Innovative proposals in partnership with Japan and other participating Eureka countries.
Competition opens: Monday 9 September 2024
Competition opens: Monday 9 September 2024
Opportunity seeds support ambitious research aligned to ARIA defined opportunity spaces. Funding for up to 10 projects between £10-500k each for ambitious research exploiting progress in AI, control, materials, and manufacturing to build robots that approach, or even exceed, the capabilities of living bodies.
Deadline: 27th August 2024, 12:00 (BST)
Deadline: 27th August 2024, 12:00 (BST)
SBRI Healthcare provides a mechanism to signal the challenges that the NHS and the wider system face and invites entrepreneurs to deploy innovative solutions to deliver improved outcomes of care and efficiencies. Our individual competition themes are scoped by working in close collaboration with the Health Innovation Network and frontline NHS and social care staff.
Deadline: 28 August 2024 1:00pm BST
Deadline: 28 August 2024 1:00pm BST
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £5 million for the purpose of developing innovative proposals with Singapore. You must collaborate with at least one Singapore business applying under the equivalent Enterprise Singapore programme.
Deadline: 28 August 2024, 11 am
Deadline: 28 August 2024, 11 am
In line with national strategies and reports, this funding competition seeks innovative solutions to improve Women's Health outcomes. Emphasis will be placed on addressing the needs of marginalized and underserved populations, including women from ethnic minority communities, those facing socioeconomic challenges, individuals with disabilities, and other vulnerable groups.
Deadline: 28 August 2024 2:00pm
Deadline: 28 August 2024 2:00pm
The aim of this competition is to facilitate collaboration between the UK and international organisations, and in particular entities in the EU, in order to accelerate research and innovation in quantum technologies and remove technological and market barriers to their successful commercialisation and adoption in the UK and internationally.
Deadline: 28 August 2024, 11am
Deadline: 28 August 2024, 11am
CivTech is a Scottish Government programme that brings the public, private, and third sectors together to tackle challenges faced by government departments, public sector organisations, and charities, and invite anyone with a brilliant idea to work hand-in-hand with them to create the solution. Individuals, teams, pre-starts, start-ups, early state or established SMEs, and large companies are welcome to apply for a share of £7.8 Mn of contract opportunities in round 10.
Deadline: 10th September 2024, 12pm
Deadline: 10th September 2024, 12pm
A funding programme for market-oriented research and development aimed at the participation of R&D-performing small and medium-sized enterprises. The programme has very strong average success rates per call: an average of 30% and up.
Deadline: 2 calls per year in Spring and Autumn.
Next deadline: 12th September
Deadline: 2 calls per year in Spring and Autumn.
Next deadline: 12th September
InCubed ‘Investing in Industrial Innovation’ is a Public Private Partnership co-funding programme run by the ESA Φ-lab. InCubed focuses on developing innovative and commercially viable products and services that generate or exploit the value of Earth observation imagery and datasets. The programme has a very wide scope and can be used to co-fund anything from building satellites to ground applications and everything between or to develop new EO business models.
Deadline: 12th September 2024 (Stage 1).
Deadline: 12th September 2024 (Stage 1).
The SBRI (Small Business Research Initiative) Healthcare Programme is committed to supporting the NHS in delivering the objectives of the NHS Long Term Plan (LTP). Phase 3 funding supports implementation studies that generate the evidence in real-world settings necessary to progress towards future uptake and provide potential adopting organisations with an understanding of the implementation pathway and assurance of benefit delivery.
Deadline: 18 September 2024 1:00pm BST
Deadline: 18 September 2024 1:00pm BST
The SBRI (Small Business Research Initiative) Healthcare Programme is committed to supporting the NHS in delivering the objectives of the NHS Long Term Plan (LTP). Phase 3 funding supports implementation studies that generate the evidence in real-world settings necessary to progress towards future uptake and provide potential adopting organisations with an understanding of the implementation pathway and assurance of benefit delivery.
Deadline: 18 September 2024 1:00pm BST
Deadline: 18 September 2024 1:00pm BST
Businesses must be active or growing work activities in the marine and maritime innovation cluster in the Great South West, defined as Cornwall and Isles of Scilly, Devon, Somerset and Dorset. The projects will contribute to the Great South West’s ambitions for Net Zero targets and support key regional strategic marine and maritime markets.
Deadline: 16 October 2024, 11am
Deadline: 16 October 2024, 11am
The aim of this competition is to provide seed funding to establish a consortium and prepare a case for a later, full sustainable medicine manufacturing themed Grand Challenge award.
Deadline: 16th October 2024, 11 am
Deadline: 16th October 2024, 11 am
To support projects that demonstrate clear game-changing, innovative and/or disruptive and ambitious ideas that lead to new processes, products or services, from any technology area or sector, that can significantly impact the UK economy.
Deadline: 23 October 2024 at 11:00am
Deadline: 23 October 2024 at 11:00am
