Innovate UK Funding Opportunities
Find out current funding opportunities available from Innovate UK.
Innovate UK is the UK’s national innovation agency, supporting business-led innovation in all sectors, technologies and UK regions.
Below is a full list of current funding opportunities available.
Better Food for All: innovation for improved nutrition, late-stage
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £20 million for projects that support the development of innovative solutions to address significant nutrition challenges.
Better Food for All: innovation for improved nutrition, mid-stage
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £20 million for projects that support the development of innovative solutions to address significant nutrition challenges.
Better Food for All: innovation for improved nutrition, early-stage
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £20 million for projects that support the development of innovative solutions to address significant nutrition challenges.
DCMS Create Growth Fund: competition one
UK registered micro, small and medium enterprises in the creative sector can apply for funding of between £10,000 and £30,000 for innovation projects to grow their business.
Creative Catalyst 2023
UK registered micro and small businesses in the creative industries sector can apply for funding up to £50,000 with a package of support to grow their business.
Novel, Low-Emission Food Production Systems: industrial research
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £16 million to deliver resource-efficient, low-emission food production systems.
Novel, Low-Emission Food Production Systems: feasibility studies
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £16 million to deliver resource-efficient, low-emission food production systems.
Farming Futures: automation and robotics industrial research
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £12.5 million to develop innovative solutions for automation and robotics.
Farming Futures: automation and robotics experimental development
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £12.5 million to develop innovative solutions for automation and robotics.
Accelerating Trustworthy AI: phase one feasibility study
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £2 million in grant funding to form consortia to deliver artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning feasibility studies.
Sustainable Bio-Based Materials and Manufacture: feasibility study
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £2 million for feasibility studies to develop and improve sustainable biomanufacturing in the UK.
Knowledge Transfer Partnerships: 2022 to 2023 round five
UK registered academic institutions, research and technology organisations or catapults can apply for a share of up to £9 million to fund innovation projects with businesses or not for profits.
Circular Fashion Programme: recycling and sorting demonstrator
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £4 million for a demonstration of innovative technologies, services and processes for the UK’s fashion and textile sector.
Canada UK Commercialising Quantum Technology Programme: CR&D
UK registered businesses and Canadian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) can apply to collaborate on joint collaborative research and development (CR&D) projects,
Future Flight: closing the skills gaps
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £500,000 to develop upskilling initiatives that tackle the immediate skills gaps of the UK aviation industry.
Innovate UK Smart Grants
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £25 million for game-changing and commercially viable research and development innovation that can significantly impact the UK economy.
NATEP Helping SMEs Innovate in Aerospace: Autumn 2022
UK registered micro, small or medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) can apply for a share of up to £2.5 million for industrial-led civil aerospace collaborative research and development projects.
Innovation Loans Future Economy Competition: round seven
UK registered businesses can apply for loans for innovative projects with strong commercial potential to significantly improve the UK economy.
Strategic Co-ordination Hub for Local Policy Innovation Partnerships
UK registered businesses and research organisations can apply for funding to establish a strategic co-ordination hub for Local Policy Innovation Partnerships.
Developing Local Policy Innovation Partnerships.
UK registered businesses and research organisations can apply for funding to develop Local Policy Innovation Partnerships.
