Innovate UK’s new series of Fast Start: Innovation grants will give hundreds of UK small and micro-businesses the opportunity to grow and realise their ideas faster.

Grants up to £50,000 will provide a fast way to boost cash flow, helping to propel those highly innovative ideas that have a clear route to commercialisation.

Innovation solving big challenges

Grants will back innovations in one or more of the seven technology areas outlined in the government’s Innovation Strategy:

• advanced materials and manufacturing
• artificial intelligence, digital and advanced computing
• bioinformatics and genomics
• engineering biology
• electronics, photonics and quantum
• energy and environment technologies
• robotics and smart machine.

Innovate UK will also ask businesses to consider how their innovation could be part of solving specific challenges of net zero and self-driven healthcare and wellbeing.

Click here to find out more. 

Location: UK

Value: up to £50k

Deadline: Competition window 11-26 Jul 2022

Date Added: 20 Jun 2022

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