MedTech
Medical technologies touch all of our lives – from pregnancy testing and ultrasound scans before birth; through wound care products for childhood injuries; to diagnostic imaging systems and therapeutic implants for disease in adults.
The range of products and services is vast, spanning medical devices and in-vitro diagnostics, and overlaps with medicines (through drug delivery systems) and with digital health (through software as a medical device).
The sector is therefore highly diverse, dominated in the UK by resource-constrained SMEs, and the individual segments can to some extent, be viewed as separate industries. But they’re bound together by some common elements – a shared regulatory framework; an increasing convergence of technologies (particularly in connected devices); and a drive to deliver innovation. They also face some common challenges – these include a complex innovation and funding landscape; regulatory change; and a need to improve sustainability.
Innovate UK Business Connect can help innovators to navigate the complex landscape and accelerate ambitious ideas into new products and services. Our team of trusted experts, from within the Health team and across the wider range of disciplines in which we have deep expertise, can help create diverse connections to drive positive change.
Related Opportunities
Global Business Innovation Programme: Digital Health, USA
Opens: 22/04/2025 Closes: 08/06/2025
Innovate UK seeks up to 15 ambitious UK small businesses (with under 250 employees) who want to explore digital health opportunities in the USA.
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Horizon Europe 2025 work programme Cluster 1: Health
Opens: 03/05/2025 Closes: 16/09/2025
Topics available under Horizon Europe’s Health programme for 2025/26, with funding of up to €20m per project.
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Innovation Exchange challenge: Detecting Nitrous Oxide levels in maternity wards
Opens: 28/04/2025 Closes: 06/06/2025
Hull University Teaching Hospitals seek innovators who can provide a solution to allow them to monitor and display levels of nitrous gases in their clinical suites in real time.
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Accelerated Knowledge Transfer 4 (AKT4) Addiction
Opens: 12/05/2025 Closes: 02/07/2025
UK registered academic institutions, RTOs or Catapults can apply for a share of up to £2 million to fund innovation projects with businesses, not for profits or public sector organisations.
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Contracts for Innovation: Scaling community initiatives in diet and exercise
Opens: 19/05/2025 Closes: 18/06/2025
Social enterprises can apply for a share of £1.8m to deliver social impact through scaling community based diet and/or exercise initiatives.
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Horizon Europe Pump Priming collaboration opportunities 2025
Applications processed upon receipt, open until 15/7/25.
Innovate UK and British Academy are pleased to announce funding schemes for Horizon Europe Pump Priming Grants, open to all disciplines.
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£3.2m funding awarded to advance early-stage healthcare innovation
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Project to detect hidden signs of osteoporosis gets Innovate UK funding
Naitive Technologies has secured funding from Innovate UK’s Advancing Precision Medicine programme to develop its technology which aims to find patients at risk of osteoporosis during routine, otherwise unrelated, hip or pelvis X-rays.
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Related programmes
Biomedical Catalyst
Helps transform innovative ideas into commercially viable businesses.
Medimap: End-to-end medicines supply chain map
Medimap is a new interactive reference tool for the UK medicines sector, mapping and categorising over 3,000 sites of organisations engaged in or supporting the end-to-end supply chain for medicines.
Neurotechnology Landscape
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