Apply for UKRI proof of idea funding to help the commercialisation of analysis to allow spinouts or social ventures, licencing or different commercialisation pathways.

Purposes from any disciplines are welcomed. No pre-existing UK Analysis and Innovation (UKRI) funding is required. The programme is not going to help discovery-driven analysis. You have to be based mostly at a UK analysis organisation.

The total financial price (FEC) might be as much as £250,000 for 12 months length with a minimal of £100,000 for six months. UKRI will fund 80% FEC.

The intention to submit is a compulsory step and the deadline is 3 March 2025 at 4:00pm (UK time).

This can be a pre-announcement, and the data could change. The total funding alternative will open on 12 March 2025. Extra data shall be out there on the UKRI web site by then.

Who can apply

Solely UKRI eligible analysis organisations can apply.

Your utility must be supported by your analysis organisation. Solely a particular variety of purposes are eligible per analysis organisation relying on the variety of energetic analysis employees.

The next are eligible to use to this funding alternative:

  • researchers together with post-doctoral researchers, analysis assistants or associates, head of teams, fellows
  • help employees together with, technicians, specialists, analysis and innovation associates together with expertise switch or data trade employees (when employed immediately by the eligible organisation)

Goal

The UKRI Proof of Idea funding alternative goals to help and speed up the event of recent or improved applied sciences, merchandise, processes, and providers arising from analysis actions at eligible UK analysis organisations, for instance, universities, analysis institutes, amenities and centres.

Scope

The UKRI Proof of Idea funding alternative helps early-to-mid stage commercialisation actions that validate the event of ideas that arose from analysis. That is to help and allow the industrial utility of current analysis alongside assorted commercialisation pathways akin to licensing or firm creation (spinouts or social ventures) or some other commercialisation routes.

Purposes are welcomed from throughout all analysis disciplines and analysis councils’ remit (AHRC, BBSRC, EPSRC, ESRC, MRC, NERC and STFC) together with cross and multi-disciplinary approaches.

Funding out there

The FEC of your challenge might be as much as £250,000 with a minimal quantity of £100,000.

UKRI will fund 80% of the FEC.

Assets to entry specialised experience pertinent to your particular commercialisation journey akin to additional mental property technique growth, authorized requirement, knowledgeable enterprise recommendation and investor enter, user-centric design, regulatory necessities or requirements are an eligible price however shall be assessed as a part of the useful resource justifications in your utility.

Collaborations between analysis organisations throughout the R&D system and notably entry to specialised amenities or infrastructures required to additional the event of analysis towards its commercialisation objectives are welcomed together with with these amenities supported by UKRI (catapults, analysis institutes, campuses and clusters, amenities and centres) however not solely.

You may see full data on the UKRI web site. You have to submit intention by third March to be eligible to submit a full utility later within the 12 months.