Sector Calls and Timetable

Sector Calls and Timetable

From April 2017, Innovate UK will align its KTP funding into four key sector groups, plus an ‘open’ approach.

They will run two broad competitions per year in each sector group plus two ‘open’ funding competitions per year for applications from any sector.

Themed sector groups are:

• Emerging and Enabling Technologies: identifying and investing in technologies and capabilities that will lead to the new products, processes and services of tomorrow – all with the potential to disrupt existing markets.
• Health and Life Sciences: focusing on agriculture and food and healthcare. The sector is underpinned by technologies developed in bioscience and medical research and enabled by expertise in engineering and physical sciences
• Infrastructure Systems: covering major global market opportunities optimising transport and energy systems and integrating them with other systems such as health and digital in an urban context
• Manufacturing and Materials: focusing on advancing manufacturing readiness so R&D and technology developments can be delivered at scale across a range of sectors to increase productivity and grow to capture the value in the UK
• Open: funding competitions and programmes open to all innovative businesses, regardless of the technology or sector in which they are working. This enables businesses to address high-growth opportunities when their concept or idea might not fit one of the Innovate UK sectors or is at the interface of multiple themes with differing scopes

For more information download Innovate UK’s priority areas for each of the sectors (specific reference to pages 12-24)