{"id":83833,"date":"2017-08-31T08:31:03","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T08:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=38f315bcc3646b0fd932cfba257d02b7"},"modified":"2017-08-31T08:31:03","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T08:31:03","slug":"news-story-inspiring-new-products-and-services-apply-for-business-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=83833","title":{"rendered":"News story: Inspiring new products and services: apply for business funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Innovate UK has up to \u00a325 million to invest in emerging and enabling technologies that could support UK economic growth in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Projects can be carried out in a range of areas including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>emerging technologies such as biofilms, energy harvesting, graphene and imaging<\/li>\n<li>digital technologies<\/li>\n<li>electronics sensors and photonics<\/li>\n<li>robotics and autonomous systems<\/li>\n<li>creative economy and design<\/li>\n<li>space applications<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The aim is to support technologies that have the potential to transform commercial markets or that could make a difference to UK economic growth across many different sectors.<\/p>\n<p>Up to \u00a315 million of the funding has been set aside for research and development projects. A further \u00a310 million is for Knowledge Transfer Partnerships.<\/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 how Innovate UK supports emerging and enabling technologies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 id=\"competition-information\">Competition information<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>the competition opens on 4 September 2017, and the deadline for applications is midday on 8 November 2017<\/li>\n<li>research and development projects:\n<ul>\n<li>must involve at least one SME, working alone or in collaboration<\/li>\n<li>must involve at least 2 partners working together if project costs are more than \u00a3100,000<\/li>\n<li>can vary in size between \u00a335,000 and \u00a32 million and last between 3 months and 3 years<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>businesses can attract up to 70% of their total project costs<\/li>\n<li>funding is available for Knowledge Transfer Partnerships, which link a business with an academic or research organisation and a qualified graduate<\/li>\n<li>briefing events take place across the UK during September<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk\/competition\/42\/overview\">Find out more about this competition and apply<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/guidance\/knowledge-transfer-partnerships-what-they-are-and-how-to-apply\">Find out more about Knowledge Transfer Partnerships<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK businesses can apply for a share of up to  \u00a325 million to work on innovative technologies, future products and services.<\/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\/83833"}],"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=83833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}