During this competition briefing, we will be discussing the scope and application requirements and providing the opportunity to ask some questions about this opportunity. Read more about the available funding.

Projects must focus on delivering an improvement in the resource efficiency or resilience of the Advanced Manufacturing sector plan frontier industries supply chains. Innovate UK want to fund projects that deliver cross-cutting technologies that can be applied across the six frontier industries defined in the Advanced Manufacturing Sector Plan:

• Automotive
• Batteries
• Aerospace
• Space
• Advanced Materials
• Agritech

While you may currently operate within a single frontier industry, your product or service must be capable of scaling into adjacent advanced manufacturing frontier industries.

You must have built a basic version of the product or service, for example, a prototype or Minimum Viable Product (MVP) at TRL6 or higher. Your prototype or MVP must focus on delivering an improvement in the resource efficiency or resilience of the supply chain. This should be expressed in terms of the potential for your product or service to:

• increase the output quantity or quality of the supply chain per unit of primary resource input; or
• maintain or increase the output quantity or quality of the supply chain per unit, whilst decreasing the resource input from outside the UK.