Innovate UK
UK registered businesses can apply with CR&D or R&D projects for a share of up to £18.5 million to mature and accelerate the availability of components that include semiconductors or novel technologies ready for integration into Smart Electronic Platforms
Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), will invest up to £18.5 million for CR&D and R&D projects. This is subject to a sufficient number of high quality applications being received.
Your project will be to work on maturing and accelerating the availability of components that include semiconductors or novel technologies, required to deliver Smart Electronic Platforms.
These platforms are essential to deliver the economic, industrial and tactical benefits of automation and autonomy. These require the integration of multiple reusable components to be able to deliver the ‘Sense-Decide-Act’ pipeline of a smart electronic platform.
The aim of this competition is to drive forward the availability of a UK anchored catalogue of components, ready for integration and delivery into next generation smart electronic platforms. The target sectors for these platforms will be across industrial and tactical edge environments for automation and autonomy.
Your project must focus on undertaking the industrial research and innovation required to deliver one or more, as a component subsystem, reusable components. Examples of which include:
A key requirement for the ‘Decide’ components is to provide the resilient hardware on which “AI runs” securely and efficiently. Projects must not include the research and innovation of the AI model, a communications module, or the end application.
Proposed components must be delivered in a consumable format, either as:
You must clearly define the following proposed component’s:
Your proposal must detail the background and arising technologies the project will utilise to create the proposed reusable component. This needs to also indicate the extent to which the background and arising technologies secure a potential market.
The proposal must also include an estimation of the potential market secured by the proposed component and the associated total addressable market size.
Projects with a strong unique selling point (USP) in the market will be prioritised during portfolio selection.
In applying to this competition, you are entering into a competitive process. This competition has a funding limit, so we may not be able to fund all the proposed projects. It may be the case that your project scores highly, but we will still be unable to fund it.
Innovate UK will also apply a ‘portfolio approach’ to ensure that projects that are funded represent a balanced portfolio of projects across:
Our experience from previous competitions suggests that you could have a 20% to 30% chance of success.
We consider a range of factors when determining whether to provide funding to applicants. This includes an assessment of prior conduct, such as any outstanding payments owed to Innovate UK or UKRI. Such factors may influence the funding decision, potentially resulting in a refusal of funding or an award subject to additional scrutiny.
We also reserve the right to adjust funding allocations for any of our competitions. This may be in response to changes in policy, portfolio funding considerations or broader government funding decisions.
This competition closes at 11am UK time on the deadline stated in this Innovate UK competition brief. We cannot guarantee other government or third party sites will always show the correct competition information.