{"id":77159,"date":"2016-12-12T14:46:01","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T14:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=defeb9210dfae5bf1e7febf4efeb6e11"},"modified":"2016-12-12T14:46:01","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T14:46:01","slug":"news-story-growing-infrastructure-systems-apply-for-business-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=77159","title":{"rendered":"News story: Growing infrastructure systems: apply for business funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Innovate UK has up to \u00a315 million to fund innovative projects in:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>smart infrastructure<\/li>\n<li>energy systems<\/li>\n<li>connected transport<\/li>\n<li>urban living<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The competition aims to stimulate innovation in the infrastructure that provides critical services for the economy, the environment and society.<\/p>\n<p>Infrastructure systems are vital to continued economic growth, competitiveness, productivity, environmental sustainability and social wellbeing.<\/p>\n<p>They also represent a huge market opportunity for UK businesses. There is \u00a3425 billion of planned public and private infrastructure investment in the UK between 2016 and 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Proposals could be in a number of areas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>smart infrastructure that improves functionality, capacity, productivity, resilience, and sustainability and reduces costs and risk of failure<\/li>\n<li>smart solutions for energy systems<\/li>\n<li>innovations in the civil nuclear market<\/li>\n<li>reducing costs for offshore wind<\/li>\n<li>improving efficiency in the transport network<\/li>\n<li>holistic solutions to challenges in urban areas<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/collections\/innovate-uk-infrastructure-systems\">Find out more about how Innovate UK supports innovation in infrastructure systems.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 id=\"competition-information\">Competition information<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>the competition opens on 16 January 2017, and the deadline for registration is at noon on 15 March 2017<\/li>\n<li>projects can range in size between \u00a325,000 and \u00a35 million and last between 3 months and 3 years<\/li>\n<li>projects between \u00a325,000 and \u00a3100,000 can involve an SME working either alone or with partners<\/li>\n<li>projects over \u00a3100,000 must involve an SME working with at least one partner<\/li>\n<li>project types can range from feasibility studies to prototypes and demonstration<\/li>\n<li>businesses can attract up to 70% of their costs depending on their size and the type of project<\/li>\n<li>a briefing event will be held on 24 January 2017<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/funding-competition-innovation-in-infrastructure-systems-round-2\">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 \u00a315 million to support projects to develop new integrated infrastructure solutions and business models.<\/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\/77159"}],"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=77159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}