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Innovate UK invites applications for its sector competition – manufacturing and materials. Funding supports projects that encourage and broaden innovation in the manufacturing and materials sector. Projects should target opportunities for significant changes in productivity and in cutting-edge innovations with significant potential for encouraging growth in all parts of the UK economy. Innovative projects are welcomed across the following main themes:

•nanotechnology and nanomaterials;

•composite materials;

•coatings, thin films and surfaces;

•metals and metallurgy;

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•electronic and sensing materials;

•resource efficiency;

•assembly and joining;

•forming technologies;

•chemical and bio process;

•surface engineering;

•electronics manufacturing;

•sensor and instrument;

•material recovery and treatment;

•additive manufacturing and 3D printing.

Proposals must improve business growth and productivity or create export opportunities for at least one UK SME involved in the project. At least one of the following areas must be covered; innovation in a manufacturing system, technology, process or business model, innovation in materials development, properties, integration or reuse, or a manufacturing or materials innovation, rather than a product innovation.