Innovate UK

Government, England

Also known as Technology Strategy Board

United Kingdom 24 open calls

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Open calls 24

Given in 2025 £763.4m

Typical grant £106k Middle half £50k to £239k

New grantees in 2025 43% first grant from this funder

Open calls

Advanced manufacturing: measurement and sensing pilot Closes 7 Oct 2026 1 day left Medicines Manufacturing Data Institute: Phase 1 Closes 14 Oct 2026 8 days left CfI: Engineering Biology for Defra and FSA Phase 1 Closes 14 Oct 2026 8 days left Farming Innovation Programme: Small R&D Partnership Projects Round 5 Closes 14 Oct 2026 8 days left Investor Partnerships – ACT and Semiconductors Closes 14 Oct 2026 8 days left Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP): 2026 – 2027 Round 3 Closes 14 Oct 2026 8 days left Ofgem Strategic Innovation Fund Discovery C7 Closes 21 Oct 2026 Open Ofgem Strategic Innovation Fund round five discovery C7 Closes 21 Oct 2026 Open Engineering Biology Access to Infrastructure Pilot Closes 21 Oct 2026 Open CfI: Innovation in play to improve child outcomes Closes 28 Oct 2026 Open National Materials Innovation Programme: CR&D Rd1 Closes 28 Oct 2026 · Up to £1.0m Open Advancing innovation in accelerated cancer diagnosis Closes 28 Oct 2026 Open National Materials Innovation Programme: CR&D Rd1 Closes 28 Oct 2026 Open Engineering Biology Collaborative R&D: Round 3 Closes 3 Nov 2026 Open DRIVE35 Scale-up Fund drawdown five Closes 4 Nov 2026 Open Frontier AI: SME Champions, Phase 1 Closes 11 Nov 2026 · Up to £250k Open Commercialising Knowledge Assets Fund (CKAF) Winter Closes 1 Dec 2026 Open Germany Bilateral Collaborative R&D: round 5 Closes 1 Dec 2026 Open Battery innovation: concept development round three Closes 2 Dec 2026 Open Battery innovation: feasibility studies round three Closes 2 Dec 2026 Open UK-Singapore CRD 2026 Closes 16 Dec 2026 Open 2445: DRIVE35: Scale Up Fund Rolling, no deadline Open Knowledge Transfer Partnership Rolling, no deadline Open Innovation Loans Expression of Interest Rolling, no deadline Open

Giving by year

£940.3m 2017 3,514

£1.0bn 2018 3,105

£1.0bn 2019 3,069

£1.3bn 2020 6,350

£1.1bn 2021 3,464

£1.6bn 2022 5,340

£2.0bn 2023 6,895

£1.5bn 2024 6,061

£763.4m 2025 2,761

£200.9m 2026 725

43% of 2025 grantees were new to this funder 45% of grantees are funded again within three years

Amount and number of grants we hold records for in each year, which can be less than everything the funder gave. The current year is incomplete.

Where it gives

London 10,415 grants · typical £92k

South East 7,408 grants · typical £89k

East of England 5,192 grants · typical £88k

South West 4,842 grants · typical £85k

North West 4,419 grants · typical £75k

Scotland 4,385 grants · typical £93k

West Midlands 4,117 grants · typical £95k

Yorkshire and The Humber 3,615 grants · typical £83k

Top local authority areas

Westminster 1,402 grants · typical £91k

Glasgow City 1,262 grants · typical £102k

Camden 1,171 grants · typical £89k

City of Edinburgh 1,120 grants · typical £94k

Islington 1,012 grants · typical £99k

South Cambridgeshire 996 grants · typical £100k

Manchester 952 grants · typical £109k

Nottingham 871 grants · typical £105k

Birmingham 807 grants · typical £105k

Hackney 769 grants · typical £70k

All years we hold. Grants with no recorded place are left out.

Latest grants made

Edge digital manufacturing limited Supply Chain Compliance Platform for UK Manufacturing SMEs £57k 1 Jul 2026

Edge Hill University SAFECORM: Saffron Fungal Evaluation & Corm Rot Management £9,371 1 Jul 2026

Plant research limited SAFECORM: Saffron Fungal Evaluation & Corm Rot Management £20k 1 Jul 2026

University of warwick SAFECORM: Saffron Fungal Evaluation & Corm Rot Management £49k 1 Jul 2026

Respiro diagnostics limited Breath-based liquid biopsy for lung cancer: Device optimisation for NHS trials £220k 1 Jul 2026

Arda biomaterials LTD Investigating and developing a roll-to-roll production method for a sustainable leather-like material made from waste beer/whisky grain proteins £685k 1 Jul 2026

Brolli group limited Structural Material Architecture and Digitally Engineered Surface Technologies for Performance Fabrics Without Chemical Finishing £70k 1 Jul 2026

Farm urban LTD. SAFECORM: Saffron Fungal Evaluation & Corm Rot Management £13k 1 Jul 2026

VacTimmune Building the QC assay that enables manufacturing readiness for our first-in-class Pseudomonas vaccine £100k 1 Jul 2026

Rotideb company limited Feasibility Study of a Sustainable UK Supply Chain Process for Converting Waste Titanium Powder into High-Value Wire Using Conform™ Technology (Ti2Wire-FS) £38k 1 Jul 2026

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