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Innovate UK: Delivering successful grant funded projects
Mareike Schmidt – Innovation Lead, Prospering from
the Energy Revolution03 December 2020
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We are the UK’s innovation agency
We connect and fund businesses and research collaborations in
all economic sectors, value chains and UK regions to accelerate
innovation.
Alongside national grant funding competitions we fund:
Enterprise Europe Network
Knowledge Transfer Network
Catapult Network
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Ageing
society
Future of mobility
Industrial Strategy Challenge Funding:
Investing in challenge-led programmes
AI and Data
Economy
Audience of the future
Quantum Technologies
Next generation services
Commercialising Quantum technologies
Digital security by design
Medicines manufacturing
Data to early diagnosisand precision medicine
Healthy ageing
Accelerating detection of disease
Faraday battery
Robotics in Extreme Environments
Future flight
Driving the electric revolution
Clean growth
Prospering from the Energy revolution
Low cost nuclear
Transforming construction
Transforming food production
Manufacturing made smarter
Smart sustainable plastic packaging
Industrial decarbonisation
Transforming foundation industries
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Competitions
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The Smart grant
- Enables businesses to apply for grant funding regardless of
technical or industrial area of focus
- Funding for the best proposals in a competitive application
process
- 4 open competitions per year
- Proposals accepted between £25k - £2m
or open competition
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SBRI: the small businessresearch initiative
Helping government:
SBRI helps government organisations solve toughchallenges by
connecting them with innovative businesses.
Helping businesses:
SBRI offers innovators the chance to win a government contract
to help demonstrate and develop their new technologies.
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Innovation Loans
A pilot programme of competitions to the end of 2020
aiming to ensure that businesses can access funding
for commercialisation
Continuity Loans
Scale up and
commercialization
activities
Late-stage
R&D projects
Delivered by
Innovate UK
Loans Ltd.
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Innovate UK Covid-19 Response
• £750m package announced in April 2020
• Fast Start – 916 businesses support, £43.4m
• Sustainable Innovation Fund – 555 applications approved,
c£90m
• £90m Continuity Grants – 621 applications delivered,
£57.7m
• £210m Innovation Continuity Loans up to £1.6m – 14
applications, 6 completed, £5.7m
• Innovation and Growth Advisory Service (Enterprise Europe
Network), £39m
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www.innovateuk.gov.uk
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How to successfully deliver a grant-funded project?
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Practical tips for delivering grant-funded projects
• Business case development
• Good project management
• Regulatory and Policy Environment
• Investor partnerships
• Procurement process
• Commercial models and roll-out
• Marketing and sales strategy
• Operational capability
• Complexity of energy systems
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Energy Systems Catapult – Local Authority Toolkit
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1Define your drivers,
motivations, benefits and
outcomes
3Explore and evidence local assets, user segments and
systems
2Explore and evidence
technology options
4Explore and evidence system/integration options
5Provide project evidence
and examples for a business case
6Identify the appropriate financial instruments
7Identify and contract the
right partners
8Engage decision
makers with
attractive
propositions
9Upskill your team and stakeholders
Toolkit Phases 1, 2 and 3
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Technology Options Appraisal
Funding and Investment
Partnering
Engaging with Decision Makers
Upskilling
Understand and investigate the
art-of-the-possible for commercially viable local energy
projects
Access information on the available funding, investment and
delivery opportunities
Map the key roles involved in your projects and access relevant
examples of processes and
documents for collaboration
Identify the key decision makers involved at each project step
and strategically address their
stakeholder needs
Provide your team with rapid training on key project aspects,
including energy, commercial,
policy, and regulation
Choose the right projects to deliver your ambitions using real
project case study evidence to support your business case
Quickly and Easily identify the right instruments and approaches
to realising your project
Streamline the process of finding the right partners at the
right times
Know who to talk to at each stage of your project and how to
secure their support
Make sure everyone understands the benefits, risks and details
of your project
Feature Benefit
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Toolkit Phases 1, 2 and 3
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