{"id":84725,"date":"2017-09-25T10:31:18","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T10:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=b0b47893e896904c64209ad75d590d71"},"modified":"2017-09-25T10:31:18","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T10:31:18","slug":"news-story-improving-health-and-food-apply-for-business-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=84725","title":{"rendered":"News story: Improving health and food: apply for business funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Innovate UK has up to \u00a315 million to support innovative business projects in the field of health and life sciences.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"reducing-the-burden\">Reducing the burden<\/h2>\n<p>A growing, ageing and increasingly wealthy global population is placing a burden on health systems and increasing the demand for food.<\/p>\n<p>There are significant opportunities for UK businesses to develop new and sustainable ways of producing food as well as innovative treatments and therapies to diseases.<\/p>\n<p>We will fund a variety of small and large projects in:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>increasing agricultural productivity<\/li>\n<li>improving food quality and sustainability<\/li>\n<li>advanced therapies (cell and gene therapies)<\/li>\n<li>precision medicine<\/li>\n<li>medicines discovery<\/li>\n<li>preclinical technologies<\/li>\n<li>advanced biosciences<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/collections\/innovate-uk-health-and-life-sciences\">Find out more about our work in health and life sciences<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 id=\"bringing-in-new-knowledge\">Bringing in new knowledge<\/h2>\n<p>Innovate UK is also accepting applications for Knowledge Transfer Partnerships in health and life sciences as part of this competition.<\/p>\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<h2 id=\"competition-information\">Competition information<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>the competition opens on 2 October 2017, and the deadline for applications is at midday on 6 December 2017<\/li>\n<li>projects should usually be led by a business and include at least one SME. Research and technology organisations may lead projects in certain circumstances<\/li>\n<li>we expect project costs to vary between \u00a350,000 and \u00a32 million<\/li>\n<li>projects of up to \u00a3100,000 are expected to last 6 to 12 months, and those of up to \u00a32 million to last 1 to 3 years<\/li>\n<li>businesses could attract up to 70% of their project costs<\/li>\n<li>a briefing event will be held on 12 October 2017<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk\/competition\/58\/overview\">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 projects that tackle health, agriculture and food challenges.<\/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\/84725"}],"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=84725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}