Analysis for Innovators Round 13
UK registered SMEs can apply for a share of up to £1m to resolve productivity and competitiveness issues by working with top scientists & research facilities.
Opportunity Details
When
Registration Opens
04/03/2024
Registration Closes
03/04/2024
Award
If successful at stage 1, your stage 2 project’s total project costs must be between £15,000 and £50,000. This is awarded as MFA (Minimal Financial Assistance), covering up to 100% of costs: eligibility depends on how much public funding support you have received in recent years.
Organisation
Innovate UK
Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, will invest up to £1 million in small collaborative innovation projects working with our Analysis for Innovators partners.
The aim of this competition is to help businesses address their existing analysis and measurement problems. These are problems that can be best explored by scientists and cutting-edge facilities available in the UK.
Your proposal must describe a measurement or analysis problem where you are seeking a solution to improve your business’s productivity or competitiveness. You must provide an estimate of the value to your business of solving it.
Analysis for Innovators partners:
- the National Physical Laboratory (NPL)
- the National Measurement Laboratory (NML) at Laboratory of the Government Chemist Group (LGC)
- the National Engineering Laboratory (NEL)
- the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
- Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)
- National Gear Metrology Lab (GEARS)
- Newton Gateway to Mathematics
- Advanced Sustainable Manufacturing Technologies (ASTUTE 2020+)
- Henry Royce Institute (HRI)
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Your organisation must be a UK registered micro, small or medium-sized enterprise (SME).
A business may make only one application to this competition.
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Your application must:
- meet the programme problem scope requirements
- relate to work being undertaken in the UK
- intend to exploit the results from or in the UK
- involve at least one of the Analysis for Innovators partner organisations
- indicate a stage 2 project duration of between 2 and 3 months
- indicate a stage 2 project start date of between 1 December 2024 and 1 January 2025
Confirmation of your stage 2 project duration and start date will be agreed with your Analysis for Innovators partner during brokerage following a successful stage 1 application.
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The aim of this competition is to help businesses address their existing analysis and measurement problems. These are problems that can be best explored by scientists and cutting-edge facilities available in the UK.
You must outline what you consider to be the benefits of solving your problem, such as improved productivity or competitiveness.
We will only consider problems that:
- are related to an existing process, product or service
- are related to the measurement or analysis of some quantities or properties of your process, product or service
- are not effectively solvable by simple ‘off the shelf’ methods or techniques
You must outline any methods and attempts that you have previously tried to address the problem. Do not propose how the problem should be solved.
Analysis problems cannot be simply software related, for example pure data analysis.
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We will not consider problems that are:
- not measurement or analysis problems
- ones we consider to be resolvable with easily available methods, such as those that do not require any innovative or cutting-edge science or facilities
- solely computer software analysis problems, such as algorithms to analyse objects
- not related to existing products, process or services owned or used by the company
In the stage 2 competition we will not fund any projects that are:
- involved with primary production in fishery and aquaculture
- involved with primary production in agriculture
- relating to the purchase of road freight transport
- not allowed under De minimis regulation restrictions
- not eligible to receive Minimal Financial Assistance
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As part of your application, you must include a short video, up to 2 minutes long.
You must use Innovate UK Analysis for Innovators Video platform to record your video and then provide a link in your application.
If we are unable to view your video, your application will be made ineligible.
If you need assistance with using the video platform, please contact the Innovate UK Business Connect Analysis for Innovators support team at a4i@iuk.ktn-uk.org.
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Innovate UK Business Connect held an online briefing on 28 February: watch the recording.
Innovate UK Business Connect can provide assistance with your application and the video application. Please contact the dedicated Innovate UK Business Connect Analysis for Innovators support team at a4i@iuk.ktn-uk.org.