{"id":77136,"date":"2016-12-12T09:42:52","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T09:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=1d62da0d76f81e7850000371db83c864"},"modified":"2016-12-12T09:42:52","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T09:42:52","slug":"news-story-transforming-products-and-services-apply-for-business-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=77136","title":{"rendered":"News story: Transforming products and services: apply for business funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Innovate UK has up to \u00a315 million to support the best business-led and innovative ideas for new products, processes and services.<\/p>\n<p>Ideas can come from any technology, engineering or industrial area. They can fit in with Innovate UK\u2019s 4 priority sectors for growth \u2013 emerging and enabling technologies, health and life sciences, infastructure systems, and manufacturing and materials  \u2013 or be outside them.<\/p>\n<p>Proposals must be transformational or disruptive innovation and must have a clear commercial impact and potential for return on investment.<\/p>\n<p>Projects that are likely to lead to a sustainable growth in productivity or access to new overseas markets will be given priority.<\/p>\n<p>This competition is the second of 2 annual Innovate UK open competitions that support good ideas with market potential  from any technology area.<\/p>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/collections\/innovate-uk-open-funding-programme\">Find out more about Innovate UK\u2019s open programme.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 id=\"competition-information\">Competition information<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>the competition is open, and the deadline for registration is at noon on 1 February 2017<\/li>\n<li>projects must be led by a business either working alone or with partners<\/li>\n<li>funding is available for a wide range of projects from proof of concept  to prototypes and demonstration<\/li>\n<li>total project costs can range from \u00a325,000 to \u00a31 million depending on the type of project, and projects can last between 6 and 36 months<\/li>\n<li>businesses could attract up to 70% of their eligible costs, depending on their size and the type of project<\/li>\n<li>a briefing event for applicants will be held on 8 December 2016<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/funding-competition-open-programme-round-2-2016\">Find out more about this competition and apply.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business can apply for a share of \u00a315 million to support development of new products and services in any technology or industrial area.<\/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\/77136"}],"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=77136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}