{"id":90823,"date":"2018-04-09T13:17:20","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T13:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=6b848b6071802a0a9f9f55390d8a40dc"},"modified":"2018-04-09T13:17:20","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T13:17:20","slug":"news-story-commercialising-quantum-technologies-in-the-uk-apply-for-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=90823","title":{"rendered":"News story: Commercialising quantum technologies in the UK: apply for funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Innovate UK has up to \u00a320 million to invest in projects that look at how quantum technologies could be used to create devices with radically new properties for commercially-viable products and services.<\/p>\n<p>The funding is under the government\u2019s Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund, which aims to bring together the UK\u2019s world-leading research with business to meet the major industrial and societal challenges of our time.<\/p>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/collections\/industrial-strategy-challenge-fund-joint-research-and-innovation\">Find out more about the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/collections\/industrial-strategy-challenge-fund-joint-research-and-innovation#quantum-technologies\">quantum technologies challenge.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 id=\"prototype-devices-able-to-do-new-things\">Prototype devices able to do new things<\/h2>\n<p>Advances in quantum technologies could provide a breakthrough in the fields of sensing, imaging and information exchange. These could be used to develop new medical devices, new types of sensors and better, more secure communication systems.<\/p>\n<p>Projects in this competition must aim to develop and commercialise \u2018second generation\u2019 quantum prototype devices or systems. They should be able to do things that would be impossible by non-quantum means.<\/p>\n<p>They must address one or more of the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>improving situational awareness, including ensuring safety during transportation in hazardous conditions such as darkness, fog or dust<\/li>\n<li>increasing productivity in deployment, improvement or maintenance of buildings or national infrastructure<\/li>\n<li>improving identification and understanding of states and features that are impossible to see by conventional means, particularly in medical, environmental and security applications<\/li>\n<li>supporting secure peer-to-peer transfer of data and information, such as across smart cities and environments<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All projects will need to show how a device could ultimately be used by a customer and that there is a clear market in the UK.<\/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 more about 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 18 April 2018, and the deadline for applications is at midday on 13 June 2018<\/li>\n<li>projects must be led by a UK-based business working with other businesses, charities, public sector organisations or researchers, and involve at least one SME<\/li>\n<li>we expect total project costs to be between \u00a33 million and \u00a310 million and for projects to last up to 29 months<\/li>\n<li>businesses could attract up to 70% of their project costs<\/li>\n<li>a briefing event will be held on 18 April 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\/143\/overview\">Find out more about this competition and apply.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Organisations can apply for a share of up to \u00a320 million to develop prototype quantum devices as part of the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund.<\/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\/90823"}],"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=90823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}