UK R&D Grants

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.

The aim of this competition is to fund business led, collaborative research and development (CR&D) net zero and sustainability projects focused on industrial research, for innovative proposals developed between the UK and Singapore.

Deadline: 6 December 2023 11am
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £4.5 million across two strands.

Deadline: 6 December 2023
The aim of this competition is to support outstanding innovation projects led by businesses. Your business must be active or growing work activities in the agri-tech and food technology innovation cluster in Eastern England.

Deadline: 06 December 2023, 11am
The aim of this competition is to support outstanding innovation projects led by businesses. Your business must be active or growing work activities in the bio-based manufacturing innovation cluster in Scotland.

Deadline: 06 December 2023, 11am

Businesses must be active or growing work activities in the immersive and creative industries cluster centred on Coventry and Warwickshire in the West Midlands. The projects will contribute to the ambitions of the cluster to develop, fuse and transfer existing research excellence, industrial innovation capability and sectoral strengths.

Deadline: 6 December 2023, 11am
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: 6 December 2023, 11am
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £4 million from Innovate UK for collaborative projects resulting in innovative solutions for emerging technologies.

Deadline: 6 December 2023, 11am
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £3 million for the development of data sharing or data exchanging technologies.

Deadline: 13 December 2023, 11am
Innovate UK have chosen a pool of investor partners to invest in innovative technology-led businesses focussing on the Future Economy.

Deadline: 08 January 2024, 11am
The projects will contribute to North East England’s ambitions to build a more productive region, fostering a competitive and embedded business base and solving social and economic challenges.

Deadline: 13 December 2023, 11am
The aim of this competition is to support outstanding innovation projects led by businesses. Your business must be active or growing work activities in the health technology innovation cluster in West Yorkshire. 

Deadline: 13 December 2023, 11am
The competition aim is to support outstanding innovation projects led by businesses. Your business must be active or growing work activities in the life and health sciences innovation cluster in Northern Ireland.

Deadline: 13 December 2023, 11am
This competition aims to support collaborative research and development (CR&D) through Canadian and UK partnerships, to assist the development and commercialisation of circular solutions for critical minerals.

Canadian EOI submission deadline: 12 January 2024
Businesses must be active or growing work activities in the net zero industrial innovation cluster in South West Wales, consisting of Carmarthenshire, Neath-Port Talbot, Pembrokeshire and Swansea. The projects will contribute to South West Wales’s ambitions for net zero and industrial decarbonisation.

Deadline: 13 December 2023, 11am
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £2 million for offshore wind R&D projects in collaboration with separately funded US projects. This funding is from Innovate UK and for UK projects only.

Deadline: 10 January 2024 11:00am
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: 17 January 2024 11am
Innovate UK will invest up to £10M in innovative projects that advance next-generation immunotherapies for cancer or life changing treatment options for childhood cancers.

Deadline: 24 January 2024, 11am
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £2 million to develop innovative proposals in partnership with Japan and other participating Eureka members.

Deadline: 31 January 2023, 11am
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 TBC