Innovate UK - Funding Call Briefing

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Thursday, 8 December, 2016 - 13:30 to 16:30

Innovate UK - Funding Call Briefing

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Knowledge Transfer Network

Come and hear about a new £6.5m competition and very different approach to Innovate UK funding programmes!

Analysis for Innovators is a new funding programme that targets competitiveness and productivity head on, by offering cutting edge R&D, expertise and facilities to UK companies that want to solve an analysis or measurement problem from within their existing business.

This could be an issue of precision or accuracy of measurement on a production line for example, which you have been unable to solve using standard available technologies and techniques.

Since this is addressing real problems you have with existing processes in your business, we believe it will be of interest to companies that previously didn’t consider applying for R&D funding. Any size business with any type of measurement or analysis problem are able to apply.

Innovate UK have partners on this programme - NPL, STFC, NEL & LGC - who run some of the most advanced cutting edge facilities, techniques and technologies available in the world, here in the UK. They will be making these available to successful applicants to A4I to do R&D to solve analysis and measurement problems. Innovate UK expect the programme to particularly appeal to manufacturing companies, especially those involved in complex supply chains, but companies applying may be from any sector.

A4I will be run as a two stage scheme, and at the first stage, we are not requiring you to describe the project that you want to do; instead you will need to describe the problem, its nature, any techniques you have already tried and the value to your business of solving it.

This is a very different approach and means that a very different application process will be necessary.

Analysis for Innovators (A4I) won’t open until January 2017, but Innovate UK and KTN are running a special series of roadshow events around the UK in the two months before Christmas to explain the programme and how it differs from our other funding competitions, both in terms of its scope and the application process and schedule.

Coventry Programme

13:30 Registration

14:00 Welcome

14:20 Introduction to KTN & Innovate UK

Nigel Rix, Head of Enabling Technology, KTN

14:30 Analysis for Innovators Programme

Overview

Scope of Analysis and Measurement

Application Process and Timetable

Funding Models for Successful Applicants

Jonathan Mitchener, Innovation Lead, Emerging Technologies, Innovate UK

16:00 Q&A

16:30 Close

Regional Events: If you want to find out more, register to attend one of the roadshow events. These are identical events repeated around the UK including Northern Ireland, Wales, Scotland and regions of England. The events are free to attend but places will be limited. The events will be half day and there will be plenty of time to ask questions.

4th November, Daresbury

10th November, Glasgow

15th November, Cardiff

28th November, Belfast

1st December, Darlington

6th December, London

8th December, Coventry

9th December, Oxford

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