http://www.innovateuk.org/ en lee.mullin@tsb.gov.uk The government is to invest up to £2 million to stimulate and support technological innovation by the UK’s small and micro businesses. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/feasibility-studies-for-technology-inspired-innova.ashx Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:37:15 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/feasibility-studies-for-technology-inspired-innova.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/techi.png Three major projects are to receive over £1 million of government funding to enable them to develop new and improved health-economics tools or products that will assist and improve the design and evaluation of diagnostic clinical trials for infectious agents. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/new-development-projects-will-improve-the-assessme.ashx Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:14:32 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/new-development-projects-will-improve-the-assessme.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/infectious agents.png The UK’s aerospace sector is set to benefit from £6 million of government investment in collaborative research and development projects that encourage innovative solutions to some of the higher-risk challenges facing the industry. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/highly-innovative-technology-enablers-for-aerospac.ashx Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:32:57 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/highly-innovative-technology-enablers-for-aerospac.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/aeroplane.png The government is to invest over £10 million in new research and development to help demonstrate that wave and tidal energy can be generated at scale, and with lower energy production costs. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/marine-energy-supporting-array-technologies-.ashx Thu, 12 Jan 2012 10:46:25 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/marine-energy-supporting-array-technologies-.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/0511/comp_marineenergy_final[1].png Ten British companies are to receive up to £50,000 each to undertake preparatory studies to better understand how to move towards an application and services marketplace in the ‘Internet of Things’. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/preparatory-studies-will-help-develop-internet-of-.ashx Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:10:02 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/preparatory-studies-will-help-develop-internet-of-.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/0511/city_at_night-image.jpg The British and Norwegian governments are to work together to support nine new research and development projects that will create innovative processes to generate high-value chemicals through industrial biotechnology and bio-refining. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/joint-uk-norwegian-support-for-development-of-indu.ashx Thu, 05 Jan 2012 11:09:01 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/joint-uk-norwegian-support-for-development-of-indu.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/new assets 2nd feb 2011/high-val-chem-image.png Sustainable manufacturing and growth in the UK’s process industries are to be stimulated through government investment of up to £5 million in innovative research and development. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/sustainable-manufacturing-for-the-process-industry.ashx Tue, 03 Jan 2012 13:35:32 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/sustainable-manufacturing-for-the-process-industry.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/0511/process.png £2.4 million funding will stimulate innovation in automated power distribution and demand management. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/four-year-power-sector-technology-innovation-progr.ashx Thu, 22 Dec 2011 14:29:30 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/four-year-power-sector-technology-innovation-progr.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/0511/smartenergy_final[1].png A competition to find and support the UK’s best fast growing clean technology businesses will take the top 20 winning entrants on The Clean and Cool Mission 2012 to San Francisco and Silicon Valley in March. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/uk-clean-technology-businesses-compete-for-place-o.ashx Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:32:15 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/uk-clean-technology-businesses-compete-for-place-o.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/0511/cc_12.png The government is to invest up to £6 million in new collaborative research and development projects that stimulate innovation in manufacturing and drive economic growth. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/boosting-innovation-in-manufacturing-competencies-.ashx Mon, 12 Dec 2011 11:43:07 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/boosting-innovation-in-manufacturing-competencies-.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/supply_chainweb.jpg A new initiative of up to £125 million is being set up by the Government to improve the global competitiveness of UK advanced manufacturing supply chains. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/advanced-manufacturing-supply-chain-initiative.ashx Thu, 08 Dec 2011 12:31:21 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/advanced-manufacturing-supply-chain-initiative.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/tech_platform.jpg Fourteen commercially-focused research and development projects that will lead to innovation in regenerative medicines are to benefit from nearly £8.5 million of government grant award funding. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/85-million-grant-funding-to-boost-uks-regenerative.ashx Tue, 06 Dec 2011 11:52:56 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/85-million-grant-funding-to-boost-uks-regenerative.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/new assets 2nd feb 2011/regen-med-image.png Technology Strategy Board and RSSB investment to accelerate business innovation in the UK’s rail industry. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/government-and-rail-industry-announce-investment-t.ashx Mon, 05 Dec 2011 15:27:56 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/government-and-rail-industry-announce-investment-t.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/0511/rail.png The first Technology and Innovation Centre will boost high value manufacturing sector http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/first-national-technology-innovation-centre-in-hig.ashx Mon, 05 Dec 2011 15:26:31 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/first-national-technology-innovation-centre-in-hig.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/0511/tics.jpg Up to £18 million of new government funding is available to develop technological innovations in the UK. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/new-government-funding-will-stimulate-growth-creat.ashx Mon, 05 Dec 2011 15:18:48 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/new-government-funding-will-stimulate-growth-creat.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/images/news/tsb_technologyinspiredcolla.png £8.5 million of investment to boost the UK space sector announced at Innovate http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/85-million-investment-targets-growth-in-the-uk-spa.ashx Mon, 05 Dec 2011 15:13:17 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/85-million-investment-targets-growth-in-the-uk-spa.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/images/news/space4growth.jpg Ten British companies are to lead government-backed research, development and demonstration projects that will use talent within the UK’s information and communication technology sectors to improve productivity and competitiveness in manufacturing and construction. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/new-developments-in-ict-to-improve-competitiveness.ashx Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:18:56 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/new-developments-in-ict-to-improve-competitiveness.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/new assets 9th march/bpe-image.png Government funding of £3 million will back seven industry-led, innovative, research and development projects that will demonstrate materials to support the development of tomorrow’s energy technologies. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/advanced-materials-to-support-the-uks-future-energ.ashx Wed, 23 Nov 2011 15:01:55 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/advanced-materials-to-support-the-uks-future-energ.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/new assets 2nd feb 2011/nano-solar-image.png An additional £10 million of grant funding is to be made available to research, develop and demonstrate technologies that will achieve significant cuts in carbon emissions from road transport, following a government decision to provide supplementary finance through the Technology Strategy Board. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/additional-investment-to-accelerate-commercialisat.ashx Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:54:40 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/additional-investment-to-accelerate-commercialisat.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/images/news/low-carbon-vehicles-image.png Three innovative small companies have each been awarded government contracts worth £100,000 to develop new services that aim to help older adults live independently for longer through adopting better approaches to food and nutrition. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/new-projects-will-develop-innovative-services-to-h.ashx Thu, 10 Nov 2011 11:30:49 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/new-projects-will-develop-innovative-services-to-h.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/new assets 2nd feb 2011/indepence-matters.png Eighteen further new building developments are to undergo intensive assessments of their energy performance in the latest part of the Technology Strategy Board’s Building Performance Evaluation programme. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/more-building-developments-to-undergo-energy-perfo.ashx Tue, 08 Nov 2011 13:53:57 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/more-building-developments-to-undergo-energy-perfo.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/new assets 9th march/bpe-image.png UK companies are being invited to take part in a competition for funding for collaborative research and development projects that aim to develop and stimulate technology within the European Organic and Large Area Electronics (OLAE) community. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/organic-large-area-electronics-competition-for-rd-.ashx Wed, 19 Oct 2011 12:12:57 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/organic-large-area-electronics-competition-for-rd-.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/olaecomp.png Over fifty research projects and studies aimed at developing healthier, safer and more nutritious food are to share over £7 million of government investment. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/new-research-will-help-make-foods-healthier-safer-.ashx Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:39:26 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/new-research-will-help-make-foods-healthier-safer-.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/images/news/nutritionforlife.png The Business Secretary, Vince Cable, will announce today that the government plans to invest at least a further £15 million in projects to accelerate the commercialisation of low carbon vehicles. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/business-secretary-to-announce-investment-to-accel.ashx Tue, 11 Oct 2011 11:54:12 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/business-secretary-to-announce-investment-to-accel.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/images/news/low-carbon-vehicles-image.png Businesses and higher education institutions from across the UK will celebrate the year’s most successful and innovative partnerships and recognise future business leaders when the annual Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTP) Awards are presented at the Innovate11 conference and exhibition in London today. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/outstanding-business-partnerships-and-future-busin.ashx Tue, 11 Oct 2011 11:22:48 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/outstanding-business-partnerships-and-future-busin.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/0511/ktp_logo_v2.png The Technology Strategy Board - in collaboration with fellow partners in the Global Food Security Programme, Defra, the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council and the Scottish Government - is to invest nearly £16 million in twenty-nine major new collaborative research and development projects that will help to secure the sustainable supply of protein such as meat, fish and animal feed. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/new-research-and-development-will-help-secure-futu.ashx Mon, 26 Sep 2011 10:38:16 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/new-research-and-development-will-help-secure-futu.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/new assets 2nd feb 2011/sustainableproteincompflyer.png Six new collaborative research and development projects are set to receive nearly £6 million of government funding in the latest stage of a major five-year initiative to ensure that the UK is a world leader in the development of personalised medicine. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/research-and-development-into-tumour-profiling-wil.ashx Fri, 16 Sep 2011 11:22:32 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/research-and-development-into-tumour-profiling-wil.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/0511/strat-med-image-home-page.jpg The Technology Strategy Board (www.innovateuk.org) and the Department of Health (www.dh.gov.uk) are to invest up to £7.5 million in new research and development that aims to improve the future diagnosis, detection and management of sepsis, a life-threatening illness caused by the body overreacting to an infection. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/government-to-invest-in-new-research-to-tackle-thr.ashx Fri, 16 Sep 2011 11:22:16 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/government-to-invest-in-new-research-to-tackle-thr.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/0511/sepsis_image.jpg The Technology Strategy Board, in partnership with the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), is to invest up to £9m on nanoscale technology-enabled solutions for the healthcare sector. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/nanoscale-technology-enabled-healthcare.ashx Fri, 16 Sep 2011 11:22:02 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/nanoscale-technology-enabled-healthcare.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/0511/nanotech.png New government investment will accelerate introduction of hydrogen and fuel cell technologies http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/new-government-investment-will-accelerate-introduc.ashx Fri, 16 Sep 2011 11:08:54 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/new-government-investment-will-accelerate-introduc.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/0511/hydrogen_fule_cells_home_pa.jpg The Technology Strategy Board is to provide funding totalling £220,000 to four more short-term collaborative projects that will research and develop new metadata production tools. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/metadata-production-tools-funding-awarded-to-four-.ashx Fri, 16 Sep 2011 11:02:59 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/metadata-production-tools-funding-awarded-to-four-.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/0511/metadata-image-home-page.jpg The Keeping Connected Business Challenge, delivered by the Technology Strategy Board and the Design Council, will look to develop innovative services that keep older adults better connected. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/business-challenge-launched.ashx Fri, 16 Sep 2011 10:50:16 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/business-challenge-launched.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/0511/keeping_connected.png Nine major development projects that will create new metadata production tools to increase the value of digital content are to share nearly £3 million of grant funding from the government-backed Technology Strategy Board. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/new-research-to-show-how-advanced-uses-of-metadata.ashx Fri, 16 Sep 2011 10:35:22 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/new-research-to-show-how-advanced-uses-of-metadata.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/0511/metadata-image-home-page.jpg The Technology Strategy Board is to invest nearly £6 million of government funding to show how co-operation between digital infrastructure providers, content producers, users and software developers can be improved to earn revenue. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/digital-value-chains-to-be-developed-and-demonstra.ashx Fri, 16 Sep 2011 10:35:16 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/digital-value-chains-to-be-developed-and-demonstra.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/new assets 2nd feb 2011/little-boy-image.png Sixteen new building developments are to undergo intensive environmental impact assessments as part of the Technology Strategy Board’s (www.innovateuk.org) four-year Building Performance Evaluation programme. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/sixteen-further-new-building-developments-to-under.ashx Fri, 16 Sep 2011 10:34:12 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/sixteen-further-new-building-developments-to-under.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/new assets 9th march/bpe-image.png The Technology Strategy Board (www.innovateuk.org) is to invest a further £2.3 million to help building design teams develop strategies for buildings in the UK so that they are better able to adapt to the changing climate. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/new-investment-will-develop-strategies-to-adapt-bu.ashx Fri, 16 Sep 2011 10:34:09 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/new-investment-will-develop-strategies-to-adapt-bu.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/new assets 9th march/bpe-image.png The Technology Strategy Board is to invest up to £4.5 million to support the development of new carbon abatement technologies, primarily focused on innovative demonstration projects. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/carbon-abatement-technologies.ashx Fri, 16 Sep 2011 10:33:55 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/carbon-abatement-technologies.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/0511/cat.png The Technology Strategy Board (www.innovateuk.org) and the Medical Research Council (MRC) (www.mrc.ac.uk) are to jointly invest over £3.7 million in seven major new research projects that will help to place the UK at the forefront of developments into personalised medicine. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/research-and-development-into-personalised-medicin.ashx Mon, 12 Sep 2011 12:33:03 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/research-and-development-into-personalised-medicin.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/0511/strat_med-_image.jpg Fourteen innovative British companies are to receive government support to carry out feasibility studies into the development of disruptive low carbon vehicle technology that will challenge current thinking. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/feasibility-studies-will-challenge-current-thinkin.ashx Mon, 12 Sep 2011 12:28:14 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/feasibility-studies-will-challenge-current-thinkin.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/images/news/low-carbon-vehicles-image-p.png Studies to improve recycling and re-use of batteries for eco-friendly cars http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/studies-to-improve-recycling-and-re-use-of-batteri.ashx Mon, 12 Sep 2011 12:24:04 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/studies-to-improve-recycling-and-re-use-of-batteri.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/0511/lcv_batteries_image_homepag.jpg Ultra lightweight engine designs, advanced battery management systems and the next generation of electric motors are just three of the new low carbon vehicle technologies to be developed by leading British companies with funding from the government-backed Technology Strategy Board (www.innovateuk.org) and the Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) (www.bis.gov.uk). http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/development-of-new-technologies-will-cut-vehicle-c.ashx Mon, 12 Sep 2011 11:59:11 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/development-of-new-technologies-will-cut-vehicle-c.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/images/news/low-carbon-vehicles-image-p.png The Technology Strategy Board (www.innovateuk.org) is to launch a £5m initiative aimed at accelerating the formation of the ’Internet of Things’ ecosystem of applications and services and is inviting British businesses and other stakeholders to help shape the programme. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/technology-strategy-board-to-invest-5m-into-the-in.ashx Thu, 08 Sep 2011 14:28:25 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/technology-strategy-board-to-invest-5m-into-the-in.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/0511/city_at_night-image.jpg Innovative and creative digital businesses based in East London are to benefit as funding for a pilot innovation initiative designed to encourage collaboration in the area doubles. The Technology Strategy Board has decided to increase the amount of funding available for the Tech City Launchpad initiative to £2 million, enabling it to provide support in the form of £100,000 grants to twice as many companies. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/digital-businesses-in-east-london-to-benefit-from-.ashx Thu, 08 Sep 2011 14:26:27 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/digital-businesses-in-east-london-to-benefit-from-.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/live from proofing 300311/techcitymap_slider_1.jpg Supporting the provision of healthy and safe food and drink http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/nutrition-for-life.ashx Wed, 29 Jun 2011 12:11:56 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/nutrition-for-life.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/new assets 9th march/nutrition.jpg Work has begun on creating an elite national centre to focus on cell therapies which will work with an emerging industrial sector with the prospect of significantly reducing health spending and vastly increasing the quality of life for many people with serious or chronic illnesses. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/search-to-begin-for-partners-in-britains-first-cel.ashx Mon, 16 May 2011 15:01:02 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/search-to-begin-for-partners-in-britains-first-cel.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/live from proofing 300311/technology-and-innovation-c.png Four projects that will develop and commercialise innovative processes to generate high value chemicals through industrial biotechnology are to share £1.5 million of support funding from the Technology Strategy Board (www.innovateuk.org). http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/funding-agreed-for-four-collaborative-research-and.ashx Thu, 14 Apr 2011 14:55:48 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/funding-agreed-for-four-collaborative-research-and.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/new assets 2nd feb 2011/high-val-chem-image.png Over £5 million of government funding is to be invested in twenty-one new research and development projects and trials aimed at helping stimulate the development of innovative technologies and strategies to enable businesses to extract greater value from large and diverse data sources. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/new-rd-projects-will-help-british-businesses-explo.ashx Tue, 12 Apr 2011 16:03:14 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/new-rd-projects-will-help-british-businesses-explo.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/new assets 2nd feb 2011/harnessing-image.png Further £12 million investment in new research and development will accelerate innovation and support growth 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investment for feasibility studies aimed at helping to stimulate innovation with technologies that will be able to address potential environmental health and safety (EHS) aspects of the development of nanoscale technologies. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/feasibility-studies-will-help-stimulate-developmen.ashx Wed, 30 Mar 2011 10:33:47 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/feasibility-studies-will-help-stimulate-developmen.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/images/news/nano-image.png Ten million pounds is to be invested over four years to improve care by growing the Scottish telehealthcare sector. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/10-million-for-scottish-telehealthcare-joint-fundi.ashx Thu, 24 Mar 2011 10:42:09 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/10-million-for-scottish-telehealthcare-joint-fundi.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/new assets 9th march/assistedlivingdisabledim.jpg As part of its four-year Building Performance Evaluation programme, the Technology Strategy Board is to fund fifteen more intensive environmental impact assessments of new developments, covering both domestic and non-domestic buildings. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/fifteen-further-new-building-developments-to-under.ashx Fri, 11 Mar 2011 10:21:26 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/fifteen-further-new-building-developments-to-under.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/new assets 9th march/bpe-image.png The Technology Strategy Board and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council are to jointly invest over £4.5 million in eleven innovative research and development projects using genomics-based technologies. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/government-funding-for-innovative-research-and-dev.ashx Fri, 04 Mar 2011 15:23:05 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/government-funding-for-innovative-research-and-dev.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/new assets 2nd feb 2011/genomes-image.png Over thirty British companies, institutions and further education establishments are to share £3 million of government investment to carry out research and development projects aimed at helping demonstrate how businesses may increase revenues from the metadata relating to their digital content. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/new-research-and-development-will-address-challeng.ashx Fri, 04 Mar 2011 15:11:37 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/new-research-and-development-will-address-challeng.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/images/news/metadata-image.png Fifteen British businesses and seven universities are to share £5 million of government funding to enable them to research the use of novel nanoscale technologies to develop the next generation of solar energy harvesting. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/developing-the-next-generation-of-solar-energy-har.ashx Mon, 21 Feb 2011 17:09:43 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/developing-the-next-generation-of-solar-energy-har.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/new assets 2nd feb 2011/nano-solar-image.png The government is to invest £7 million in strategic research and development projects and ground-breaking trials that will improve co-operation between infrastructure providers, content producers, users and software developers http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/new-investment-aims-to-help-the-uks-digital-econom.ashx Mon, 21 Feb 2011 17:08:20 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/new-investment-aims-to-help-the-uks-digital-econom.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/new assets 2nd feb 2011/little-boy-image.png As part of its £18m Collaboration across Digital Industries initiative, the Technology Strategy Board is to invest up to £5.8m in research that will help to create sustainable digital value chains. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/collaboration-across-digital-industries-.ashx Mon, 21 Feb 2011 10:08:22 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/collaboration-across-digital-industries-.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/new assets 2nd feb 2011/digital-image.png Over twenty new building developments across the UK are to be subjected to a detailed and intensive assessment of their environmental impact in the first phase of a four year programme that will help to deliver more energy efficient, better performing buildings. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/how-green-is-your-building.ashx Fri, 18 Feb 2011 12:05:35 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/how-green-is-your-building.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/images/news/low_impact_building_2.png The Technology Strategy Board is to support growth and technological innovation in the UK’s broadband network by investing over £2m to help establish five open network services demonstrators. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/five-new-network-services-demonstrators-to-become-.ashx Fri, 18 Feb 2011 11:59:37 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/five-new-network-services-demonstrators-to-become-.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/images/news/digital-image.png £2 million funding to stimulate space innovation http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/2-million-funding-to-stimulate-space-innovation-.ashx Fri, 18 Feb 2011 11:55:06 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/2-million-funding-to-stimulate-space-innovation-.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/images/news/space.png The Technology Strategy Board is to invest up to £5 million in collaborative research and development projects looking to create tools that make the production of content such as film, music and computer games more cost-effective, less risky and yield greater value through new advanced uses of metadata. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/metadata-production-tools-new-5-million-funding-co.ashx Fri, 18 Feb 2011 11:50:51 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/metadata-production-tools-new-5-million-funding-co.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/images/news/metadata-image.png The Technology Strategy Board and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council have jointly allocated up to £400,000 to stimulate innovation with technologies that can address the potential environmental, health and safety (EHS) aspects of the development of nanoscale technologies, either by offering an innovative EHS product or by solving EHS issues with nanotechnology enabled products and processes. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/responsible-development-of-nanoscale-technologies-.ashx Fri, 18 Feb 2011 11:46:07 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/responsible-development-of-nanoscale-technologies-.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/images/news/nano-image.png Speeding up the introduction of more secure and trustworthy information systems http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/speeding-up-the-introduction-of-more-secure-and-tr.ashx Fri, 18 Feb 2011 11:41:50 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/speeding-up-the-introduction-of-more-secure-and-tr.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/images/news/trusted-services.png The Technology Strategy Board is to invest a further £9 million to support innovations in low carbon vehicle technology and is inviting applications for funding of new collaborative research and development projects and feasibility studies http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/further-investment-in-low-carbon-vehicle-technolog1.ashx Fri, 18 Feb 2011 11:29:35 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/further-investment-in-low-carbon-vehicle-technolog1.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/images/news/low-carbon-vehicles-image-p.png Competition to find innovative solutions to help older adults live independently for longer http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/competition-to-find-innovative-solutions-to-help-o.ashx Fri, 11 Feb 2011 14:32:13 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/competition-to-find-innovative-solutions-to-help-o.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/new assets 2nd feb 2011/indepence-matters.png The Technology Strategy Board is to manage two further funding competitions as part of the £21.5 million Regenerative Medicine Programme. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/regenerative-medicine-programme-.ashx Fri, 11 Feb 2011 14:31:37 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/regenerative-medicine-programme-.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/new assets 2nd feb 2011/regen-med-image.png The Technology Strategy Board – in partnership with Defra, the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council and the Scottish Government – is launching a collaborative research and development competition with up to £15 million available to invest in projects focusing on the challenge of Sustainable Protein Production. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/15-million-research-and-development-competition-to.ashx Fri, 11 Feb 2011 12:30:11 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/15-million-research-and-development-competition-to.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/new assets 2nd feb 2011/sustainableproteincompflyer.png Three major research and development projects that will help to develop the wave and tidal stream energy technologies of the future are set to benefit from government investment of over £2.5 million. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/further-investment-will-quicken-pace-of-innovation.ashx Fri, 11 Feb 2011 12:27:53 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/further-investment-will-quicken-pace-of-innovation.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/images/news/wave-image.png Eleven British universities and sixteen businesses – including many small and medium sized companies – are to receive a total of nearly £9 million of government investment for research that will help to underpin the development of innovative, cost-effective, user-centred services for independent living. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/research-projects-will-show-impact-and-value-of-as.ashx Fri, 11 Feb 2011 12:27:11 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/research-projects-will-show-impact-and-value-of-as.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/images/news/assisted-living-image.png Ten feasibility studies looking at how industrial biotechnology can be competitively applied to the production of high value chemicals and polymers are set to benefit from government investment totalling £1 million. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/funding-agreed-for-ten-feasibility-studies-in-indu.ashx Tue, 08 Feb 2011 13:44:58 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/funding-agreed-for-ten-feasibility-studies-in-indu.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/new assets 2nd feb 2011/high-val-chem-image.png The Technology Strategy Board proposes to stimulate innovation across its core technology areas to help ensure that small and micro businesses in the UK are well-equipped to respond to society’s current and future challenges. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/small-and-micro-companies-invited-to-apply-for-fun.ashx Thu, 27 Jan 2011 12:44:28 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/small-and-micro-companies-invited-to-apply-for-fun.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/images/news/feasibilitystudiesfortechno.png The Technology Strategy Board intends to stimulate innovation by small and micro companies in digital services through an investment of up to £2 million in feasibility studies. The Board has also published an update to its Digital strategy. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/small-and-micro-companies-invited-to-apply-for-fun1.ashx Thu, 27 Jan 2011 12:42:40 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/small-and-micro-companies-invited-to-apply-for-fun1.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/images/news/digi_small.jpg Technology Strategy Board and Design Council announce drive for innovative solutions to the challenges of the UK’s ageing population http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/2m-project-will-harness-design-and-technology-to-h.ashx Wed, 24 Nov 2010 14:20:50 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/2m-project-will-harness-design-and-technology-to-h.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/images/news/assisted-living-image.png Two British companies – Zeta Controls and Juice Technology – are to receive substantial government funding to help them develop new energy efficient lighting. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/uk-companies-to-develop-and-demonstrate-new-energy.ashx Wed, 24 Nov 2010 13:16:12 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/uk-companies-to-develop-and-demonstrate-new-energy.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/images/news/ultra-efficient.png Four major government departments are to install innovative energy efficient technology and user behaviour approaches in a series of pilot projects that will demonstrate how both government and private offices can dramatically improve their energy performance, cut energy bills and reduce carbon emissions. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/government-departments-to-demonstrate-innovative-e.ashx Mon, 25 Oct 2010 15:51:56 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/government-departments-to-demonstrate-innovative-e.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/images/news/energy-whitehall-image.png The Technology Strategy Board is to invest £2.4 million to help building design teams develop strategies for buildings in the UK so that they are better able to adapt to the changing climate. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/adapting-buildings-to-cope-with-climate-change-.ashx Mon, 25 Oct 2010 15:31:38 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/adapting-buildings-to-cope-with-climate-change-.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/images/news/low-impact-buildings-pr.png The Technology Strategy Board, together with the Department of Health, the Scottish Government Health Directorates, the Medical Research Council, Cancer Research UK and the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) is to bring the government, researchers and business together in a major initiative that will place the UK at the centre of a revolution in the diagnosis and treatment of disease. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/healthcare-initiative-could-enhance-uk-position-as.ashx Wed, 13 Oct 2010 15:01:46 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/healthcare-initiative-could-enhance-uk-position-as.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/images/news/tsb_stratmedbusinessmodelsc.jpg Four innovative small British companies are each to receive £100,000 to help them develop new technologies after they were declared the winners in a unique competition at today’s Innovate10 networking and innovation event in London. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/four-small-businesses-win-100000-development-fundi.ashx Tue, 12 Oct 2010 17:13:42 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/four-small-businesses-win-100000-development-fundi.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/images/news/innovate-comp-image-test-tu.png Companies from across the UK are to receive government help to develop diagnostic devices that will assist in reducing the impact of infectious agents such as hospital acquired infections and sexually transmitted diseases. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/fightinginfectionthroughdetection.ashx Mon, 11 Oct 2010 17:00:14 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/fightinginfectionthroughdetection.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/images/news/fighting-infect-through-det.png Businesses across the UK are being invited to compete for support to develop innovative technologies that could create new growth areas for the UK economy. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/search-for-innovative-technologies-that-may-be-the.ashx Mon, 11 Oct 2010 16:27:11 GMT Superbugs in the firing line as new products take a step closer to the ward http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/superbugs-in-the-firing-line-as-new-products-take-.ashx Mon, 04 Oct 2010 11:18:04 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/superbugs-in-the-firing-line-as-new-products-take-.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/images/news/healthcare_image-superbugs.jpg The Transport Secretary, Philip Hammond, announced today that £24m will go to six innovative projects that aim to support UK’s developing Ultra Low Carbon Vehicles industry. Some of the UK’s leading vehicle manufacturers, working alongside supply chain manufacturers and universities, have secured the Government investment and the total costs for all six projects stands at just under £52m. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/business-and-government-invest-52m-in-uks-developi.ashx Thu, 30 Sep 2010 12:22:14 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/business-and-government-invest-52m-in-uks-developi.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/images/news/low-carbon-vehicles-image-p.png Twenty feasibility studies aimed at stimulating innovation in civil nuclear power generation technology are to share £2 million of support from the government-backed Technology Strategy Board. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/nuclear-power-generation-technology-innovation-to-.ashx Mon, 27 Sep 2010 10:32:56 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/nuclear-power-generation-technology-innovation-to-.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/images/news/nuclear-image-press-release.png Small companies from across the UK are being invited to submit a two-minute video to pitch for a share of £600,000 of government funding to kick-start the development of new technology. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/innovative-small-companies-given-two-minutes-to-pi.ashx Thu, 16 Sep 2010 14:02:14 GMT http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/innovative-small-companies-given-two-minutes-to-pi.ashx http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/images/news/innovate-comp-image-test-tu.png The Technology Strategy Board is to invest up to £5 million in innovative research and development projects using genomics-based technologies. This initiative seeks to highlight the opportunities created by the decrease in cost, and increase in speed, in high-throughput sequencing technology. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/5m-funding-for-innovative-research-and-development.ashx Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:42:13 GMT Nanotechnology researchers and industry specialists are being invited to propose business-led research projects that will compete for £7million to help stimulate the next generation of solar energy harvesting technologies. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/research-into-next-generation-solar-energy-harvest.ashx Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:04:07 GMT The Technology Strategy Board is to run a competition to fund the development and commercialisation of innovative processes that will generate high value chemicals though industrial biotechnology. Up to £2.5 million will be invested and the Board is inviting applications for both feasibility and collaborative research and development projects. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/manufacturing-high-value-chemicals-through-industr.ashx Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:47:22 GMT The Technology Strategy Board is to invest up to £5 million in collaborative research and development projects that will demonstrate how businesses may increase revenues from the metadata relating to their digital content. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/new-funding-competition-will-address-challenge-of-.ashx Mon, 16 Aug 2010 13:54:31 GMT Four innovative research projects are to receive government support to develop novel products and services to help reduce energy consumption in offices, schools, hospitals and other non-domestic buildings across the UK. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/research-projects-to-develop-user-centred-innovati.ashx Mon, 16 Aug 2010 13:50:12 GMT The Technology Strategy Board is to invest up to £7 million in collaborative research and development projects that will stimulate the development of innovative technologies and strategies to enable businesses to extract greater value from large and diverse sources of data. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/proposals-sought-for-research-and-development-proj.ashx Tue, 10 Aug 2010 11:43:51 GMT Over £12 million is to be invested by the government-backed Technology Strategy Board to develop new technology that will speed up the reduction of CO2 emissions from road vehicles. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/new-government-investment-will-speed-up-developmen.ashx Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:34:30 GMT The Technology Strategy Board today signalled the government’s commitment to supporting innovation in high value manufacturing by announcing investment of £5 million in 22 new research and development feasibility projects. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/further-5-million-investment-highlights-commitment.ashx Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:20:16 GMT The development of innovations to help reduce emissions from power stations and CO2 intensive industries is to receive a major boost after the Technology Strategy Board announced today that it is to invest £15 million on behalf of the government in over 30 new research and development projects and studies. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/carbon-abatement-technologies-to-be-stimulated-by-.ashx Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:08:27 GMT Innovative businesses are being invited by the Government-backed Technology Strategy Board to compete for up to £12m of investment during 2010 to help develop the wave and tidal technologies of the future. Two new collaborative R&D competitions from the board are designed to support innovation that will lead to the cost effective exploitation of UK and global wave and tidal stream resources. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/12m-to-help-quicken-pace-of-innovation-in-wave-and.ashx Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:39:01 GMT The Technology Strategy Board today signalled its commitment to supporting innovation in Assisted Living by announcing it will invest £6.5 million in six collaborative research and development projects that will develop new technologies to help the elderly and those with long-term health conditions. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/technology-strategy-board-investment-in-new-techno1.ashx Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:10:20 GMT The Technology Strategy Board today signalled its commitment to supporting innovation in Assisted Living by announcing it will invest £6.5 million in six collaborative research and development projects that will develop new technologies to help the elderly and those with long-term health conditions. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/technology-strategy-board-investment-in-new-techno.ashx Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:06:14 GMT The Technology Strategy Board is to invest a further £6m in regenerative medicine research and development and has invited British companies to bid for funding through two new competitions. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/media-alert-6-million-to-be-invested-in-further-re.ashx Tue, 13 Jul 2010 14:54:05 GMT Building design teams are being invited to compete for a total of just under £5m investment in projects that will devise ways of adapting buildings so that they can withstand climate change. The Technology Strategy Board will invest a total of £2.5m in the research and development project in 2010 and a further £2.4 m in 2011. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/building-designers-invited-to-engage-in-climate-ch1.ashx Tue, 13 Jul 2010 14:14:08 GMT Building design teams are being invited to compete for a total of just under £5m investment in projects that will devise ways of adapting buildings so that they can withstand climate change. The Technology Strategy Board will invest a total of £2.5m in the research and development project in 2010 and a further £2.4 m in 2011. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/building-designers-invited-to-engage-in-climate-ch.ashx Tue, 13 Jul 2010 14:12:16 GMT Businesses are being offered the opportunity to compete for funding to undertake innovative new research that will help make homes ‘smarter’ and make consumers more energy conscious. The Technology Strategy Board is to invest £4.5m in the development of new business propositions that show how a smart meter can be fitted into people’s homes in a way that impacts on their demand for and use of energy. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/accelerating-progress-towards-integrating-smart-me.ashx Tue, 13 Jul 2010 14:10:57 GMT An innovative research and development project is underway that aims to accelerate the move towards more buildings in the UK with a low carbon footprint. Businesses involved in delivering ‘low impact buildings’ will be given the opportunity to apply for a total of £8m investment from the Government-backed Technology Strategy Board, that would allow them to evaluate the performance of ‘case study’ buildings. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/innovating-to-reduce-the-energy-cost-and-carbon-fo.ashx Tue, 13 Jul 2010 14:06:14 GMT The Technology Strategy Board, together with co-funders the Economic and Social Research Council and the Department of Health’s National Institute for Health Research, is to invest up to £10 million in new research that will help to underpin the development of innovative, cost-effective user-centred services for independent living. http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition-announcements/-10-million-to-be-invested-in-developing-innovativ.ashx Tue, 13 Jul 2010 13:23:24 GMT