{"id":88983,"date":"2018-02-13T12:30:03","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T12:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=be33254b6693475c2cb2fef417ef9ef5"},"modified":"2018-02-13T12:30:03","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T12:30:03","slug":"news-story-using-experts-to-analyse-and-measure-problems-apply-for-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=88983","title":{"rendered":"News story: Using experts to analyse and measure problems: apply for support"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npl.co.uk\/\">National Physical Laboratory<\/a>, the <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lgcgroup.com\/our-science\/national-measurement-laboratory\/#.WoGVH-fLiUk\">National Measurement Laboratory at LGC<\/a>, the National Engineering Laboratory and the <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stfc.ac.uk\/\">Science and Technology Facilities Council<\/a> have up to \u00a34 million to invest in UK businesses to solve analysis and measurement problems.<\/p>\n<p>The competition aims to help businesses to solve tricky and sometimes long-running technical issues affecting existing products and services by giving them access to some of the UK\u2019s top scientists and national measurement institutes.<\/p>\n<p>It is the second in a series called \u2018analysis for innovators\u2019, run by Innovate UK.<\/p>\n<p>Successful applicants will get free consultancy on how to approach their problem and information on how to get funding to work on a solution with a relevant funding partner.<\/p>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/guidance\/innovation-apply-for-a-funding-award\">Find out more about how Innovate UK supports businesses.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 id=\"solving-existing-problems\">Solving existing problems<\/h2>\n<p>The competition aims to help businesses from a wide range of technology areas to solve problems that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>are related to the measurement or analysis of some quantities or properties of an existing process, product or service<\/li>\n<li>are not effectively solvable by simple \u2018off the shelf\u2019 methods or techniques<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"competition-information\">Competition information<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>the competition opens on 5 March 2018, and the deadline for submissions is midday on 4 April 2018<\/li>\n<li>it is open to UK businesses<\/li>\n<li>we expect free consultancy sessions to start in May 2018<\/li>\n<li>we expect follow-on projects to typically last up to 12 months and to have project costs of up to \u00a3250,000<\/li>\n<li>details on funding options will be given at a series of roadshows in February and March<\/li>\n<li>a briefing event will be held on 7 March 2018<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk\/competition\/109\/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 \u00a34 million in consultancy and support to help them solve analysis and measurement problems that could improve productivity.<\/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\/88983"}],"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=88983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}