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Latest Funding Opportunities
Competition closes: 1 December 2026
The aim of this competition is to support organisations to move viable public sector Knowledge Assets with identified potential markets towards commercialisation.
The CKAF provides funding ranging from £50,000 to £250,000 for each project to move viable public sector Knowledge Assets with identified potential markets towards commercialisation.
A Knowledge Asset is an intangible asset held by the organisation. Examples include: know how, expertise and intellectual property rights for designs, research and development outputs, source code and creative outputs. The fund is technology agnostic and encourages applications from across all sectors.
Competition closes: 2 December 2026
The aim of this competition is to support collaborative R&D in strategically critical areas of the UK battery value chain and strengthen UK capability in battery cell manufacturing, pack manufacturing including high performance cell technologies, automated manufacturing techniques, non-destructive testing, AI driven design and simulation of manufacturing processes. This call is also aimed at strengthening the UK supply chain security and build resilient, multi-sector manufacturing capability and support supply chain localisation to align with rules of origin requirements and UK’s strategic priorities.
Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), is delivering the Battery Innovation Programme on behalf of the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade (BIST). The programme will invest up to £25 million in innovation projects. Your project must have grant funding request of between £500,000 and £4 million.
Competition closes: 1 August 2018
Innovate UK, as part of UK Research and Innovation, will invest up to £16 million in 4 large scale creative industries demonstrator projects through the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF). This is part of the Audience of the Future (AotF) programme. This competition aims to explore future global, mass market, commercial opportunities in the creative industries. Primarily this will be through pre-commercial collaboration at scale. You must demonstrate you can significantly improve on the current state of the art in your field. Proposals must include access to globally recognised intellectual property (IP) and reach an audience of 100,000 people. They must detail how the project will generate consumer insight at scale. Projects must be business-led and carried out in collaboration with organisations from relevant sectors. Information sourced from Innovate UK and available from www.gov.uk
Competition closes: Tuesday 3 November 2026 11:00am
The aim of this competition is to deliver business led research and development that will lead to new engineering biology products, processes or services or de-risk the adoption of engineering biology technologies that offer high market potential. The funding support will help to accelerate the development and adoption of engineering biology technologies and techniques, driving economic growth from UK strengths in research and innovation and by doing so provide solutions to societal challenges.
To be considered within scope for this competition, the primary innovation and competitive advantage underpinning the project must arise from or enable engineering biology. Your project must have total costs of between £750,000 and £2.5 million and last between 12 and 36 months. Any organisation receiving funding must carry out its project work in the UK.
Competition closes: 2 December 2026
The aim of this competition is to accelerate the development and commercialisation of state of the art battery technologies in the UK, support the growth of the UK battery supply chain and related companies and enhance the UK’s competitiveness in the global battery market.
Your project must demonstrate the market demand for a chosen sector and application. You must explain how your innovation can support the industry challenges and remove hurdlers and enable UK competitiveness across the battery value chain. Your project’s total eligible grant funding request must be between £70,000 and £500,000. Any organisation receiving funding must carry out its project work in the UK, intend to exploit the results in the UK, and spend most of the funding within the UK.
Competition closes: 16 December 2026
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £3 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.
The aim of this competition is to fund business-led collaborative research and development (CR&D) projects focused on industrial research. Your project must focus on one of the following sectors, Advanced Manufacturing, Clean Energy, Life Sciences or Digital and Technologies, specifically the frontier technologies including Semiconductors, Quantum, Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Advanced Connectivity Technologies and Engineering Biology. Your project must have a grant funding request of between £100,000 and £900,000 and last between 24 and 36 months. The majority of the project work must be undertaken in the UK and Singapore. UK project partners must carry out the majority of their project work in the UK and intend to exploit the results from or in the UK, and spend most of the funding within the UK.
Competition closes: Wednesday 4 November 2026 11:00am
The aim of the Scale up Fund is to support manufacturing facility and process development at pilot scale or demonstration scale. These projects will enable businesses to validate manufacturing capability and commercial viability, achieving market entry at the targeted production volume from your project outcomes.
Your proposal must justify the funding required with a case for government intervention and matched by substantial private investment. Your project must support growth, transition, and resilience of the UK’s automotive supply chain, increasing capability whilst improving productivity, efficiency, and competitiveness and contribute to the UK’s strategic aims and priorities, such as the Industrial Strategy, the Automotive Council’s Roadmaps and Strategic Technology areas for eligible on-vehicle technologies, including zero emission vehicle assembly and the associated supply chain.
Competition closes: 28 October 2026
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £12 million for collaborative industrial research to speed the translation of advanced materials innovations in three prioritised high growth themes and one strategic opportunity theme.
The aim of this competition is to accelerate the translation and adoption of material innovations through collaborative industrial research. The competition will support the priority opportunity themes of the National Materials Innovation Strategy, unlock strategic material opportunities and enhance competitiveness across the eight growth driving sectors. You must explain how your innovation will improve performance, functionality, productivity or sustainability. You must also provide a credible route to commercialisation and deployment. Your project must have a grant funding request of between £500,000 and £1 million.
Competition closes: 4th December 2024
Innovate UK, on behalf of the Office for Life Sciences’ (OLS) Cancer Healthcare Goals programme, will invest up to £25.4 million, to support the clinical validation and evaluation of early cancer diagnostic technologies and devices. The aim of this competition is to accelerate the development of diagnostic innovations that enable the earlier detection and diagnosis of cancer, particularly less common cancers.
Your project must focus on developing, validating or evaluating diagnostic technologies or approaches that demonstrate clear potential for clinical and health economic impact. Projects can generate robust evidence to support regulatory approval and future NHS adoption. Your project can include clinical validation and evaluation studies, early phase clinical trials, safety and efficacy testing, technology demonstration in relevant and operational environments, regulatory planning and product development activities. Projects focusing on less common cancers are particularly encouraged for this competition.
Competition closes: 28 October 2026
Organisations can apply for a share of £3 million, inclusive of VAT, to develop practical solutions that reignite the importance of play and increase access to high quality, real world play experiences, improving outcomes for children and young people.
The aim of this competition is to support organisations to develop practical solutions that reignite the importance of play and increase access to real world play environments and experiences, enhancing the quality and impact of play in improving outcomes for children and young people. Your projects will need to improve face to face interaction between children, families and communities and increase access to real world play environments and experiences. Your project will need to strengthen the quality and accessibility of play as a pathway to improving measurable child development and learning outcomes.