Top 20 viewed innovation funding
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LOCAL
This early stage seed fund investing in the technologies arising from the research undertaken at the Universities of De Montfort, Leicester, Loughborough, Nottingham and Nottingham Trent, provides support in the form of equity investment in the business and assists the commercialisation of promising technologies, including helping with securing intellectual property rights and the preparation of business plans, etc.
- Funding body:
- N/A
- Max. Value:
- Discretionary
- Status:
- Open
- Application deadline:
- N/A
A range of specialist support, training, consultancy and development programmes available to firms operating within the food and drink sector in Derbyshire.
- Funding body:
- N/A
- Max. Value:
- Discretionary
- Status:
- Open
- Application deadline:
- N/A
REGIONAL
The East Midlands Rural Development Programme provides support for a wide range of activities in rural areas of the East Midlands that add value to agriculture and horticulture and the development of new products, processes and technologies.
- Funding body:
- N/A
- Max. Value:
- Discretionary
- Status:
- Open
- Application deadline:
- N/A
Venture capital funding to enable businesses in the Midlands area to expand. Through the scheme, the funding provider also seeks to add value to investee companies through the introduction of experienced and non-executive directors to the company board.
- Funding body:
- N/A
- Max. Value:
- Discretionary
- Status:
- Open
- Application deadline:
- N/A
NATIONAL
The Regional Growth Fund is the government's main financial instrument for investing in private sector and public/private projects that will stimulate sustainable growth and create additional employment.
- Funding body:
- N/A
- Max. Value:
- Discretionary
- Status:
- Open
- Application deadline:
- N/A
Funding is available for research proposals relating to resource efficiency, environmental and quality improvement factors of barley, oilseed rape and wheat in their use in the production of food and drink for humans and feed for animals.
- Funding body:
- N/A
- Max. Value:
- Discretionary
- Status:
- Closed
- Application deadline:
- N/A
Funding for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the UK to engage in research and development projects in the strategically important areas of science, engineering and technology, from which successful new products, processes and services could emerge.
- Funding body:
- N/A
- Max. Value:
- Discretionary
- Status:
- Open
- Application deadline:
- N/A
DEFRA holds periodic, UK-wide, research competitions as part of its Science Research Programme. DEFRA science provides evidence for decision-making, helps to find new policy solutions and helps to identify and tackle future issues. The key priority areas are: Climate Change and Energy; Natural Resource Protection; Sustainable Consumption and Production; Sustainable Rural Communities; and Farming and Food.
- Funding body:
- N/A
- Max. Value:
- Discretionary
- Status:
- Closed
- Application deadline:
- N/A
Provides equity funding for small and medium sized enterprises to enable them to grow.
- Funding body:
- N/A
- Max. Value:
- Discretionary
- Status:
- Open
- Application deadline:
- N/A
EUROPEAN
Transport (including aeronautics) is a Thematic Area of the Cooperation Programme under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). Support is available for developing integrated, safer, 'greener' and 'smarter' pan-European transport systems for the benefit of all citizens, society and climate policy, respecting the environment and natural resources; and securing and further developing the competitiveness attained by the European industries in the global market.
- Funding body:
- N/A
- Max. Value:
- Discretionary
- Status:
- Open
- Application deadline:
- N/A
The Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programme is one of three programmes under the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP) 2007-2013. The scheme supports enterprise (particularly SMEs), entrepreneurship and innovation, including eco-innovation and industrial competitiveness.
- Funding body:
- N/A
- Max. Value:
- Discretionary
- Status:
- Closed
- Application deadline:
- N/A
Grants are available to encourage the more rapid discovery and development of better medicines for patients while improving the competitiveness of the European pharmaceutical industry.
- Funding body:
- N/A
- Max. Value:
- Discretionary
- Status:
- Open
- Application deadline:
- N/A
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) is a Thematic Area of the Cooperation Programme under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). Activities will strengthen Europe's scientific and technology base and ensure its global leadership in ICT, help drive and stimulate product, service and process innovation and creativity through ICT.
- Funding body:
- N/A
- Max. Value:
- Discretionary
- Status:
- Open
- Application deadline:
- N/A
Financial assistance is available for projects related to environmental issues and sustainable management of natural resources in developing countries.
- Funding body:
- N/A
- Max. Value:
- Discretionary
- Status:
- Closed
- Application deadline:
- N/A
