TSB offer up to £10m in fast-track and collaborative research and development projects
The Technology Strategy Board is to invest up to £10m in fast-track and collaborative research and development projects that stimulate innovation across the key enabling technology areas of advanced materials, biosciences, electronics, sensors and photonics and information and communications technology.
Additional funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) may be available for projects in line with the scope of this competition that contain a significant, high-quality academic research component and demonstrate added value by building on or being complementary to their existing research programmes and portfolios.
Innovative proposals are being sought that focus on projects that advance the development of a recent technological discovery or breakthrough in the context of significant and identifiable technological risk, which can be broadly applied across a wide range of market opportunities and needs.
Projects must be collaborative and business-led.
The competition has two strands:
Strand 1 is a single-stage fast-track process. Projects must be led by a small or medium-sized enterprise (SME) and must last between six and 12 months.
Strand 2 is a two-stage competition. Consortia should include at least one SME partner and projects must last between 12 and 24 months.
The competition is live now. The technological scope of this competition is closely aligned with the core enabling technologies outlined in our new strategy 'Enabling technologies'. Some of the topics outlined in the strategy will be outside the scope of this competition: this is because they come within the scope of other concurrent or upcoming competitions.
Topics covered under this call are:
* Advanced Materials -Sustainability and materials security Biosciences - Characterisation and discovery tools
* commercial application of sequencing technologies focusing on genomics
* integration of 'omics technologies
* development of biological imaging systems, biosensors, probes/markers and diagnostic platforms.
Production and processing
* metabolic engineering
* novel manufacturing processes for producing biological products and novel biological production systems
* formulation and delivery approaches for biological products including biopharmaceuticals and functional foods.
Bioinformatics
* approaches for organising, filtering and interpreting biological data, including biological system modelling, data visualisation, and user-centred design.
* Electronics, sensors and photonics
* ICT
For further information: http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition/technology-inspired-innovation3.ashx
