BBSRC: Business and academia prosperity partnership

11/04/2024

20/12/2024

The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council invites applications for its business and academia prosperity partnership call. This supports business-led research that arises from an industrial need, with the work being co-delivered between the business and academic partners. The opportunity is aimed at supporting excellent, world-leading discovery research and innovation, which has clear benefit to the businesses involved, resulting in accelerated impact arising from the new knowledge, innovations or technologies. The research carried out by the partnership should be relevant to stimulating innovation aimed at tackling major problems faced by the UK and the world and drive capability in key technologies and scientific advancements. The full funding amount of at least £17 million will be delivered in a single round with projects being up to five years in length. BBSRC funding is at 80% full economic costs with exceptions for skills and talent training costs (100% full economic cost). (Forecasted date for next call).

The topic of the research and innovation programme is primarily focused on bioscience and biotechnology within BBSRC's remit. Multidisciplinary projects are welcomed and funding from other UKRI councils may be sought as long as more than 50 per cent of the work lies within BBSRC's remit.

Eligibility Note Applications must be led by the business partner at the outline stage. Business leads must be UK-based businesses or have UK-based research activity. They must be a business in the private sector driven by profit, or from an organisation with a commercial arm which generates independent revenue and able to contribute to the UK national prosperity through increasing their investment in research and development activities and subsequent product, service or technology development in the UK. Research organisations can act as academic leads in partnerships if they are eligible to receive research council funding. UK HEIs, research council institutes, UKRI-approved independent research organisations, public sector research establishments and NHS bodies with research capacity are eligible.