{"id":56868,"date":"2015-05-14T08:45:27","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T08:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=db56d2405663f2873af6246d1569117e"},"modified":"2015-05-14T08:45:27","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T08:45:27","slug":"news-story-key-technologies-3-million-for-business-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=56868","title":{"rendered":"News story: Key technologies: \u00a33 million for business innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Future UK economic growth will be driven by innovation in four key technology areas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>advanced materials<\/li>\n<li>biosciences <\/li>\n<li>electronics, sensors and photonics<\/li>\n<li>information and communication technology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These four areas underpin the development of high-value products and services across many industrial sectors.<\/p>\n<p>Innovate UK has up to \u00a33m available for feasibility studies led by small or micro businesses into innovative projects in all four areas.<\/p>\n<p>Advances will help to keep the UK at the forefront of technological innovation and generate significant economic growth.<\/p>\n<p>Studies can be carried out into a range of new products and services, from lightweight materials and nanotechnologies to biological products, sensor systems, power electronics, use of data and improved computing experiences.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"competition-information\">Competition information<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>the competition is open to businesses of any size<\/li>\n<li>projects must be led by a small or micro company working with at least one other business or research partner<\/li>\n<li>small or micro businesses could receive up to 70% of their eligible project costs, medium-sized businesses 60% and large businesses 50%<\/li>\n<li>projects should range in size from total costs of \u00a350,000 to \u00a3150,000 and last 6 to 15 months<\/li>\n<li>the competition opens on 18 May 2015<\/li>\n<li>the deadline for registration is noon on 2 September 2015<\/li>\n<li>a briefing event will be held in London on 20 May 2015<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/interact.innovateuk.org\/competition-display-page\/-\/asset_publisher\/RqEt2AKmEBhi\/content\/technology-inspired-innovation-may-2015\">Find out more about this competition and apply<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Businesses can apply for a share of \u00a33 million for feasibility studies into technology projects across four key areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56868"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56879,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56868\/revisions\/56879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}