{"id":79066,"date":"2017-02-20T11:06:47","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T11:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=47c8e1ec2d360700863f8be00df1a871"},"modified":"2017-02-20T11:06:47","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T11:06:47","slug":"news-story-commercialisation-of-quantum-technologies-apply-for-funding-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=79066","title":{"rendered":"News story: Commercialisation of quantum technologies: apply for funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Innovate UK and the <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.epsrc.ac.uk\/\">Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council<\/a> (EPSRC) are inviting business to apply for a share of up to \u00a314 million to develop quantum technologies.<\/p>\n<p>Quantum technologies have the potential to significantly improve imaging and computing. We predict they will have a major impact on the finance, defence, aerospace, energy and telecommunications sectors.<\/p>\n<p>The competition aims to encourage collaborative research and development (CR&amp;D) projects and feasibility studies that will either:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>develop prototype devices and demonstrators of quantum technologies or their component technologies<\/li>\n<li>improve the understanding of the technical, business or market challenges of taking a new device or service to market<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/collections\/innovate-uk-emerging-and-enabling-technologies\">Find out more about Innovate UK\u2019s work in the emerging and enabling technologies sector<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>There are 2 streams of the competition to support technologies at different stages of development.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"feasibility-studies\">Feasibility studies<\/h3>\n<p>This competition strand is seeking collaborative feasibility studies that will improve understanding of the technical or market feasibility of a product or service. Projects can be technical or non-technical projects and focus on understanding the business or market opportunity and challenges. They should last between 6 and 12 months with costs from \u00a350,000 to \u00a3500,000.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"collaborative-rd\">Collaborative R&amp;D<\/h3>\n<p>Projects in the collaborative research and development strand should be challenge-led. We are looking to fund projects that produce prototype devices and demonstrators with a clear commercial application or market need. They should last between 12 and 18 months with costs from \u00a3500,000 to \u00a32 million.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"competition-information\">Competition information<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>this competition is open and the deadline for registration is midday on Wednesday 29 March 2017<\/li>\n<li>proposals must be collaborative and a UK-based business must lead the project<\/li>\n<li>there will be briefing events for potential applicants in Edinburgh (21 February) and Birmingham (2 March)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/funding-competition-commercialisation-of-quantum-technologies-3\">Find out more about this competition and apply<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Businesses can win a share of \u00a314 million to either develop quantum technology prototypes or establish technical or market feasibility.<\/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\/79066"}],"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=79066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}