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UK invites registrations for its open programme round 2. Funding aims to support the best business-led, innovative or disruptive ideas or concepts from any technology, engineering or industrial area. This area can be one that fits into or be outside of, any one or more of Innovate UK’s four priority sectors for growth. To be in scope, a proposal must:

•demonstrate transformational or disruptive innovation leading to novel, new products, processes or services;

•articulate a clear, anticipated growth and commercialisation impact for the business with considerable, demonstrable potential to lead to a significant return on investment. Projects that are likely to lead to sustainable gains in productivity and/or access to new overseas markets through export-led business growth will be prioritised.

Eligible applicants must be a UK-based business of any size carrying out the project in the UK alone or in collaboration with others.

The total budget is worth £15 million. Projects may range in size from £25,000 to £1m and last between six and 36 months. 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 technical feasibility studies and industrial research. 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 projects which are nearer to market.

Call opens 9th January 2017, briefing event 12th January.

The aim of this competition is to help companies overcome intractable product, manufacturing or process performance problems through advanced measurement and analytical technologies. The ultimate aim is to improve companies’ overall performance and productivity.

We are looking to fund projects that can show the negative business impact of an existing process or product variability.

Examples of the types of business problems include, but are not limited to:

• poorly understood structure and properties of emerging technology products where the business impact is high
• undesirable variation in product or process performance, where the root cause is not understood, but the negative business impact is high
• repeated unexplained product failures
• lack of precision in composition measurement or flow of multi-component systems, or processes
• lack of detailed understanding of structure, mechanism or function, preventing further product enhancements

The latest analytical technologies and data analysis approaches may be able to identify the root causes of problems. They may also be able to enhance control measures for products or processes.

Examples of technologies that could be made available under the scheme include, but are not limited to:

• ultra-sensitive elemental and chemical structure analysis techniques
• dimensional measurement of complex or miniaturised parts
• non-destructive inspection technologies and engineering measurements
• ultra-trace nucleic acid detection technologies
• next generation sequencing technologies
• advanced hyphenated mass spectrometry tools and techniques
• ultra-precise flow measurement of complex fluids
• advanced imaging tools and techniques
• analysis and modelling requiring novel sequential or parallel processing approaches
• environmental measurements
• electromagnetic technologies
• other technologies, as recommended by an expert panel

At stage 1, applicants do not need to know what analysis or measurement is required, or how to do it. They do need to have a commitment to work with one of our 4 co-funding partners; Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC), National Physical Laboratory (NPL), LGC or NEL; to overcome their business challenges.

The aim of this competition is to help companies overcome intractable product, manufacturing or process performance problems through advanced measurement and analytical technologies. The ultimate aim is to improve companies’ overall performance and productivity.

We are looking to fund projects that can show the negative business impact of an existing process or product variability.

Examples of the types of business problems include, but are not limited to:

• poorly understood structure and properties of emerging technology products where the business impact is high
• undesirable variation in product or process performance, where the root cause is not understood, but the negative business impact is high
• repeated unexplained product failures
• lack of precision in composition measurement or flow of multi-component systems, or processes
• lack of detailed understanding of structure, mechanism or function, preventing further product enhancements

The latest analytical technologies and data analysis approaches may be able to identify the root causes of problems. They may also be able to enhance control measures for products or processes.

Examples of technologies that could be made available under the scheme include, but are not limited to:

• ultra-sensitive elemental and chemical structure analysis techniques
• dimensional measurement of complex or miniaturised parts
• non-destructive inspection technologies and engineering measurements
• ultra-trace nucleic acid detection technologies
• next generation sequencing technologies
• advanced hyphenated mass spectrometry tools and techniques
• ultra-precise flow measurement of complex fluids
• advanced imaging tools and techniques
• analysis and modelling requiring novel sequential or parallel processing approaches
• environmental measurements
• electromagnetic technologies
• other technologies, as recommended by an expert panel

At stage 1, applicants do not need to know what analysis or measurement is required, or how to do it. They do need to have a commitment to work with one of our 4 co-funding partners; Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC), National Physical Laboratory (NPL), LGC or NEL; to overcome their business challenges.

This recognises achievements of scientists at early stages of their career for work in any area of relativity and gravitation, theoretical or experimental. The prize consists of €1,000, a medal and a certificate. An Ashtekar travel award of USD 1,000 is also presented to the winner as partial support for travel to the GR22 conference.