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The Industrial Decarbonisation Challenge has supported the UK’s six largest industrial clusters to decarbonise at scale through the development of low carbon technologies and infrastructure, increased industry competitiveness and collaboration and contributed to the UK’s clean growth.
Funding councils:
EPSRCInnovate UK
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Innovate UK Contracts for Innovation (formerly known as the Small Business Research Initiative or SBRI) helps public sector organisations to solve complex challenges by running a competitive funding opportunity, to develop and adopt new solutions and technologies.
Funding councils:
Innovate UK
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The Innovation Accelerator programme invested in £100 million in 26 transformative research and development projects between 2022 to 2025 to accelerate the growth of three high-potential innovation clusters:
- Glasgow City Region
- Greater Manchester
- West Midlands
The programme was boosted by an additional £30 million of public funding for 2025 to 2026 spread equally across the regions.
It’s led by Innovate UK on behalf of UK Research and Innovation and the Department for Science and Innovation (DSIT).
Funding councils:
Innovate UK
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This programme is designed to fund projects demonstrating innovative approaches to environmental monitoring at a sensor or systems-based level. It aims to connect industry and the growing UK environmental monitoring sector, ensuring that the public and private sectors work in partnership to develop new sensing capabilities.
Funding councils:
Innovate UKNERC
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This area of support covers our programmes supporting the decarbonisation of transport and technologies such as connectivity and autonomy.
It includes our investments in automotive, maritime, rail, charging and refuelling infrastructure and heavy goods vehicles.
Funding councils:
Innovate UK
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Innovation loans are for micro, small and medium-sized enterprises that want to scale up by developing new or improved products, processes or services through late-stage research and development projects.
The loans aim to provide flexible and patient capital to support business growth through all stages of innovation.
Funding councils:
Innovate UK
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We aim to develop the solutions needed to embed the values of biodiversity into financial decision making.
We will support researchers from environmental, economic and social science disciplines, at any career stage. We encourage collaboration with relevant finance sector organisations.
Funding councils:
Innovate UKNERC
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The International Science Partnerships Fund (ISPF) is designed to enable potential and foster prosperity.
It puts research and innovation at the heart of our international relationships, supporting UK researchers and innovators to collaborate with peers around the world on the major themes of our time: planet, health, tech and talent.
By working closely with our international partners, we aim to address global challenges, build knowledge, and develop the technologies of tomorrow.
Funding councils:
AHRCBBSRCEPSRCESRCInnovate UKMRCNERCSTFC
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This programme brings together Innovate UK’s use of grant funding, and investor partners’ aligned funding and expertise.
Its aim is to stimulate research and development in micro, small and medium-sized enterprises, while accelerating equity investment into those companies so that they can grow more rapidly through innovation.
Funding councils:
Innovate UK
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The Low Cost Nuclear programme phase two was a research and development programme to further develop the UK small modular reactor power station concept to successfully pass the key regulatory milestone of Generic Design Assessment (GDA) Step two completion by 31 March 2025. It was led by Rolls-Royce SMR Ltd. with UKRI as delivery partner overseeing programme management on behalf of the Department of Energy Security and Net Zero, who were accountable for the project.
Funding councils:
Innovate UK
