Innovate UK is to open a new funding programme to support small and micro businesses with up to £50,000, as part of a £30 million funding programme.
The programme hopes to attract innovative ideas that have a clear route to commercialisation, with a focus on supporting the UK’s net zero targets or self-driven healthcare.
It hopes to attract technologies across seven themes, including: advanced materials and manufacturing; AI, digital and advanced computing; bioinformatics and genomics; engineering biology; electronics, photonics and quantum; energy and environment technologies; and robotics and smart machines.
Funding between £25,000 and £50,000 will be provided to support innovations for three – six months.
The scope for the self-driven healthcare, de-centralised healthcare and mental wellbeing theme includes: prevention and self-management of lifestyle diseases; maximising the utility, safety and security of personal health records, including self-generated data; assessing new business models and routes to market for products and services related to self-care and self-management; developing innovations that support self-management of mental wellbeing; user-centric low carbon heating and cooling solutions; energy generation, storage, management, and active user engagement approaches to energy efficiency; zero emission powertrain system development, and digital solutions to optimise transport; and environmentally focused manufacturing, supply chains and circular economy solutions.
For achieving net zero and reducing environmental impact the scope includes: user-centric low carbon heating and cooling solutions; energy generation, storage, management, and active user engagement approaches to energy efficiency; zero emission powertrain system development, and digital solutions to optimise transport; and environmentally focused manufacturing, supply chains and circular economy solutions.
The programme opens for applications 11 July. To find out more, please click here.
