Innovation Insights

New funding competition for infrastructure tech - don’t miss out!

Written by Cecilia Thirlway | 22 Jul 2016

If you’ve got a great idea for improving urban living, transport or energy generation and supply, then listen up! Innovate UK recently launched a funding competition aimed at helping businesses research and evaluate new infrastructure technologies.Businesses can bid for a share of a £19m pot for solutions aimed at addressing issues in energy generation and supply, connected transport or urban living,

The competition is in two phases - the first round of funding will be offered to applicants to investigate and integrate their proposed solutions into real-world projects, while round two will provide the best business cases with funding to test their solution with users.

You can bid for funding up to £50,000 in round one, and between £250,000 and £5m in round two. Applications have to be submitted by the end of August, and you can find more information on the Gov.uk website.