This competition is open to UK and Singapore collaborations only.

To lead a project your organisation must:

• be a UK registered business of any size
• collaborate with a Singapore registered business, which must be a separate non-linked entity to the UK project partner or partners

To collaborate with the lead, your organisation must be one of the following UK registered:

• business of any size
• academic institution
• research and technology organisation (RTO)

You must ensure that no single partner accounts for more than 70% of the total eligible costs.

An eligible organisation can only lead on one application. Any further applications by the same organisation as lead will be made ineligible. An eligible organisation that is leading an application can be included as a collaborator in a further two applications and if not leading, can collaborate in any number of applications.

Your project must:

• have a grant funding request of between £100,000 and £900,000
• last between 24 and 36 months
• not start before 1 May 2027
• end by 30 April 2030

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.

The consortium must include at least one business registered in Singapore that is a separate legal entity and not linked to the UK partners. This is to ensure that projects encourage genuine international collaboration, not internal company research. Linked companies are considered a single entity under the parent company.

Your project must demonstrate a balanced technological contribution by the participants from both countries and must be equally significant to all participants.

No one country or project partner can represent more than 70% of the total project cost.

Your proposal must demonstrate a clear intention to commercially exploit the results of the project domestically or globally.

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
• Digital and Technologies (specifically the frontier technologies including Semiconductors, Quantum, Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Advanced Connectivity Technologies and Engineering Biology)

We will fund industrial research projects only, as defined in the guidance on categories of research.

An online briefing event will be held on 27 August 2026 at 11:00: click here to join the event on Zoom when it begins. Briefing slides will be available to download after the event.

If you want help to find a project partner, contact Innovate UK Business Connect.

Innovate UK Business Connect in conjunction with Enterprise Singapore (EnterpriseSG) are hosting a business matchmaking platform that can support you in finding a partner in Singapore. Register at this link to find a collaboration partner through B2Match.