Digital

The Innovate UK Business Connect Digital team helps organisations interested in Digital innovation to access funding, expert knowledge and to make powerful and diverse connections.

Are you working on an innovation in the Digital sector? 

We can help you take the next step by connecting you with the right funding, people and expertise.

Our people have a deep expertise and work with businesses of all sizes, from start-ups and spin-outs, to  medium sized enterprises and big businesses.

Find out about Digital funding opportunities 

We’re on the frontline to help you find out about funding for the Digital sector. We share information about funding opportunities from government and organisations like Innovate UK. We also partner with organisations to deliver funding on their behalf to help solve key global challenges.

Make powerful connections to fast track your project 

You’ll be matched with the person in our team who is the most knowledgeable about your project. We have experts in cybersecurity, 5G, AI for services, digital economy and IOT.

We’ll identify partners best suited to your needs from our network of innovators, across sectors and technology areas.

By helping connect organisations and people across all sectors, we help shape the future and build a better and stronger innovation system.

Our current focus in this area

The only pre-seed accelerator programme in the cybersecurity ecosystem, CyberASAP (Cyber Security Academic Startup Accelerator Programme) plays a unique and vital role in supporting cyber security innovation and commercialisation.

Innovate UK Immersive Tech Network brings together industry, researchers and research organisations, the public sector, entrepreneurs, innovators and end-users to support the UK in becoming the global leader in applications of immersive technologies: high-end visualisation, virtual, mixed, and augmented reality, haptics and other sensory interfaces with data.

Helping the professional and financial service sectors to develop and use digital technologies.

5G is more than just another upgrade in the mobile telecoms landscape. 5G promises to become the underpinning technology for the entire global digital economy, capable of generating trillions of pounds of value.

Computing helps produce digital assets and software activity. These can be used by varied sectors such as transport, infrastructure, farming and life sciences.

The National Cyber Security Centre’s (NCSC) definition of cyber security’s core function is to protect the devices we all use, and the services we access from theft or damage and preventing unauthorised access to personal information we store on these devices, and online.

The Digital Economy covers all business activity that’s enabled by digital technologies. This includes a wide range of activity across many sectors.

The digital health and care sub-sector is characterised by a large number of small companies developing technology across the health spectrum.

Digital manufacturing promises improved productivity, sustainability, resilience and the creation of high value jobs. The industrial digital technology (IDT) innovator seeking to make an impact in the physical world stands to benefit from the transformation of UK manufacturing.

What makes our modern lives relatively easy, interconnected and seamless is this seldom thought of, but very vital soft infrastructure – the electromagnetic spectrum.

IoT (Internet of Things) is all things data. It includes generating, catching, moving, processing data for insights/actions in increasingly automated and connected contexts. These technologies can unlock powerful business capabilities. IoT technology is often behind the words ‘smart’ or ‘digitisation’. It’s present in any and all sectors that use data associated with non-human assets (things).

Related Opportunities

Contracts for Innovation: Ending Violence Against Women & Girls

Opens: 09/10/2024   Closes: 04/11/2024

Two NI-based challenges: making spaces safer through design and technology, and addressing violence through data and tech innovations.

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Work-related digital innovations for individuals with poor mental health

Opens: 09/10/2024   Closes: 13/11/2024

Up to £200k each for digital innovations to help people remain in work, return to work, or gain employment.

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Media Cymru Scale Up Round 2

Opens: 07/10/2024   Closes: 04/12/2024

UK registered organisations based in Wales can apply for £100k-£250k to develop innovative products, services or experiences for the media sector.

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Mindset extended reality (XR): Digital therapeutics for mental health

Opens: 28/10/2024   Closes: 15/01/2025

UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £3.7 million for R&D projects that provide digital therapeutics for mental health solutions.

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HMGCC Co-Creation Challenge: NCA seeks emulated phone technology to help combat crime

Opens: 10/10/2024   Closes: 07/11/2024

The National Crime Agency (NCA) seeks emulated phone technology for alias-based communications. HMGCC Co-Creation invites organisations with mid to high Technical Readiness Level (TRL) solutions to support the NCA’s national and international operations in its latest challenge.

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HMGCC Co-Creation Challenge: AI / Novel Technology Red Agent Penetration Testing

Opens: 17/10/2024   Closes: 21/11/2024

A challenge to further the security community’s understanding of AI or any novel technologies that have the capacity to penetration test secure IT environments.

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Quantum Missions pilot: Quantum Computing and Quantum Networks Competition Briefing

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Mindset - extended reality for digital mental health: Applicant briefing and collaboration building

10.00 - 11.00 | Online

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