{"id":79487,"date":"2017-03-06T15:30:19","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T15:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=cb52cc34722e5186092d8d78c844ce9b"},"modified":"2017-03-06T15:30:19","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T15:30:19","slug":"news-story-technologies-of-the-future-apply-for-business-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=79487","title":{"rendered":"News story: Technologies of the future: apply for business funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Innovate UK has up to \u00a315 million to support business projects that stimulate new products and services through emerging and enabling technologies. These technologies could be the basis for billion-pound industries of the future.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"emerging-technologies\">Emerging technologies<\/h2>\n<p>Emerging technologies are newly developed sciences, where the best application and value is yet to be realised. Examples include quantum technologies, graphene and 2D materials, biofilms, energy harvesting and synthetic biology.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"enabling-technologies\">Enabling technologies<\/h2>\n<p>Enabling technologies can have wide applicability. Many industries could benefit from advances in areas such as machine learning, compound semiconductors, and earth observation. Examples of enabling technologies include digital, space and satellite, electronics, sensors and photonics, and robotics.<\/p>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/collections\/innovate-uk-emerging-and-enabling-technologies\">Find out about how we support emerging and enabling technologies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 id=\"projects\">Projects<\/h2>\n<p>We expect to fund projects in 4 priority areas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>emerging technologies<\/li>\n<li>digital<\/li>\n<li>enabling capabilities<\/li>\n<li>space applications<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Proposals must demonstrate significant innovation; be applicable to more than one industry, sector or market; and improve growth, productivity or create export opportunities for at least 1 SME.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"competition-information\">Competition information<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>the competition is open, and the deadline for registration is midday on 3 May 2017<\/li>\n<li>we expect projects to last between 6 months and 3 years and to range in size from \u00a335,000 to \u00a32 million<\/li>\n<li>projects must involve at least 1 SME and be led by a business or a research and technology organisation<\/li>\n<li>businesses could  attract up to 70% of their project costs<\/li>\n<li>a briefing event for potential applicants will be held on 8 March 2017<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/funding-competition-emerging-enabling-technologies-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 up to \u00a315 million for innovation projects that will inspire the products and services of tomorrow.<\/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\/79487"}],"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=79487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}