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Innovate UK and the Government of India, via the Newton Fund, invite registrations for their competition on technology solutions for society in India. This aims to fund collaborative technological solutions that address clean technology, affordable healthcare or use of electronic system design and manufacture technologies to provide solutions to particular societal challenges. The specific challenges within this are:
•large-area flexible electronics and internet of things, to help provide affordable energy, healthcare or education;
•challenges related to the environment or cities that affect the wider population of India;
•devices for internal security, particularly for natural disaster management;
•medical electronics that address the needs of remote communities;
•infrastructure that uses technology to solve the challenges of sustainability and resilience India faces in mobility, energy and information and communication technology;
Projects must be collaborative, and include a UK lead applicant and an Indian one. The project lead must be a business on the UK side and must show that India is the principal market for the project.
The total budget is worth up to £1.6 million and projects are worth £350,000 to £450,000, over a period of 12 to 24 months. Small businesses may receive up to 45 per cent of their eligible project costs, medium-sized businesses may receive 35 per cent and large businesses may receive 25 per cent for experimental development work packages. Small businesses may receive up to 70 per cent of their eligible project costs, medium-sized businesses may receive 60 per cent and large businesses may receive 50 per cent for industrial research.