Innovate UK: ISCF Commercialising quantum technologies: feasibility studies round 3

03/02/2022

09/03/2022

Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, will invest up to £6 million in innovation projects. This funding is from the ISCF Commercialising quantum technologies challenge. The aim of this competition is to advance the commercialisation of quantum technologies in the UK and to address one or more of the technical challenges: - connectivity - seeing the invisible - positioning, navigation and timing - computing Your proposal must identify a clear market opportunity and an innovative project which exploits it. Your project’s total eligible costs can be up to £500,000.

Your proposal must identify a clear market opportunity and an innovative project which exploits it. Your project must: - exploit second generation quantum techniques - demonstrate how the technology will contribute towards the commercialisation of quantum technologies in or from the UK - outline the investment from industry that you will generate.

Lead organisation To lead a project or work alone your organisation must: - be a UK registered business of any size - involve at least one grant claiming SME - Academic institutions and research organisations cannot lead or work alone. Project team To collaborate with the lead, your organisation must be one of the following UK registered: - business of any size - academic institution - charity - not-for-profit - public sector organisation - research and technology organisation (RTO) Each partner organisation must be invited into the Innovation Funding Service by the lead to collaborate on a project. Once accepted, partners will be asked to login or to create an account and enter their own project costs into the Innovation Funding Service.If collaborating the lead and at least one other organisation must claim funding by entering their costs during the application. Your project can include partners that do not receive any of this competition’s funding, for example non-UK businesses. Their costs will count towards the total eligible project costs.