{"id":64579,"date":"2015-11-25T09:27:12","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T09:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=24af4c904096d2e921a37f1a4f7e4d29"},"modified":"2015-11-25T09:27:12","modified_gmt":"2015-11-25T09:27:12","slug":"news-story-innovation-in-key-technologies-apply-for-business-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=64579","title":{"rendered":"News story: Innovation in key technologies: apply for business funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Small and micro businesses can apply for a share of up to \u00a32 million to help them to carry out feasibility studies into technology projects in 4 key areas that underpin the future development of high-value products and services in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Innovate UK is seeking studies for innovative projects in the fields of:<\/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>The funding competition aims to ensure that small and micro companies are able to respond to market opportunities across a range of economic sectors.<\/p>\n<p>Innovation in the 4 areas will help to keep the UK at the forefront of technological development.<\/p>\n<p>Studies can be carried out into a wide range of new products and services, from materials for energy and healthcare to new biological products and bio-based solutions, sensor systems, power electronics, use of data and simpler computing experiences.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"competition-information\">Competition information<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>the competition opens on 18 January 2016, and the deadline for registration is 9 March 2016<\/li>\n<li>projects must be led by a small or micro business working either alone or with one other small or micro business<\/li>\n<li>we expect total project costs to be no more than \u00a333,000 and for projects to last up to 4 months<\/li>\n<li>businesses could receive up to 70% of their project costs<\/li>\n<li>a briefing event for potential applicants will take place in London on 26 January 2016, and there will be additional events in Edinburgh and Manchester<\/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-innovati-1\">Find out more about this competition and apply.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Small businesses can apply for feasibility study funding in advanced materials; biosciences; electronics, sensors and photoncs; or ICT.<\/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\/64579"}],"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=64579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}