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Find out if you could secure up to £900k for your Innovative UK SME, alongside private investment, to develop and commercialise advanced materials.
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Find out if you could secure up to £900k for your Innovative UK SME, alongside private investment, to develop and commercialise advanced materials.

Find out if you could secure up to £400k for your UK Quantum Business, by teaming up with a Dutch partner on commercial quantum R&D.

Find out if you could secure up to £3.5 million for your Innovative UK Business. Defra is funding soil and water R&D and applications close 28 January 2027.

Find out if you could secure up to £750k for your UK Hydrogen Storage Project and move an underground storage demonstrator towards investment.

Find out if you could secure up to £5 million for your UK Hydrogen Storage Consortia, testing the materials, compressors and sensors behind underground storage.

Find out if you could secure up to £200k for your UK AI SME, and take a proven AI product from pilot into live operational deployment.

Find out if you could secure up to £200k for your Innovative UK AI SME and move your decision-making AI from pilot into real-world use.

Find out if you could secure up to £200k for your Innovative UK AI SME taking an AI compliance or assurance tool into real-world deployment.

Find out if your farming, growing or forestry business could secure grant funding for an on-farm trial worth up to £200k.

Find out if you could secure up to £600k for your Innovative UK Business through a collaborative R&D project with a Japanese SME.

Find out if you could secure up to £1 million for your UK Pharma Manufacturing Project. Applications close on 2 December 2026.

Softening of compliance measures will make it easier for companies to access R&D Tax Relief and improve trust in the scheme.

Find out if you could secure up to £2 million for your Innovative UK SME’s engineering biology project, backed by aligned private investment.

Find out if you could secure up to £200k as one of the Multi-Vector Energy Innovators partnering with an energy network on Ofgem’s whole system challenge.

Find out if you could secure up to £105k for your Innovative UK SME to prove out new AI learning methods, architectures or control mechanisms.

Find out if you could secure up to £50k for your UK Battery Innovator business, with 100% of your eligible project costs covered.

Find out if you could secure up to £350k for your Innovative UK SME’s clean energy, life sciences or engineering biology project with a German partner.

Find out if you could secure up to £175k for your Innovative UK SME, with a route into £1 million of Phase 2 funding.

Find out if you could secure up to £80k to test your Counter-Drone Tech in a live UK prison environment.

Find out if you could secure up to £4 million for your Innovative UK Business. Innovate UK’s battery manufacturing competition closes 2 December 2026.

Find out if you could secure up to £700k for your Innovative UK Business developing ultra long duration energy storage. Applications close 30 September 2026.

Find out if you could secure up to £500k for your Innovative UK Business. Battery Innovation Feasibility Studies Round 3 closes on 2 December 2026.

Find out if you could secure up to £1.75 million for your UK Business. Innovate UK’s Engineering Biology Collaborative R&D Round 3 closes 3 November 2026.

Find out if you could secure up to £525k for your Innovative UK SME. Innovate UK’s engineering biology scale-up competition closes 21 October 2026.

Find out if you could secure up to £100k for your UK Organisation, and what Innovate UK wants from Phase 1 before the 14 October deadline.

Find out if you could secure up to £200,000 for your Innovative UK Organisation. Applications for this engineering biology competition close 14 October.

Find out if you could secure up to £2.1 million for your Innovative UK Business. Defra is funding on-farm R&D and applications close 14 October 2026.

Find out if you could secure up to £1 million for your Innovative UK Business. Innovate UK’s advanced materials competition closes 28 October 2026.
Find out if you could secure up to £900k for your Innovative UK SME. Innovate UK’s ACT and Semiconductors round closes on 14 October 2026.

Find out if you could secure up to £3 million for your Innovative UK Business. Applications close 28 October 2026.