Launchpad: health technology, West Yorkshire
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £2m to grow activities in the health technology innovation cluster in West Yorkshire.
Opportunity Details
When
Registration Opens
30/10/2023
Registration Closes
13/12/2023
Award
MFA strand: single organisations only. Your project’s grant funding request must be between £25,000 and £100,000, which can cover up to 100% of costs. CR&D strand: collaborative projects only. Your project’s total grant funding request must be between £150,000 and £1m, which can cover up to 70% of costs depending on business size.
Organisation
Innovate UK
Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, is to invest up to £2 million in innovation projects led by businesses. Your business must be active or growing work activities in the health technology innovation cluster in West Yorkshire.
This Launchpad competition supports the Government’s goals in the Levelling Up White Paper. The projects will contribute to West Yorkshire’s ambitions for innovation in health technologies.
This competition is split into three strands:
- Launchpad: health technology, West Yorkshire, Round 1 Minimal Financial Assistance (MFA)
- Launchpad: health technology, West Yorkshire, Round 1 Collaborative Research and Development (CR&D)
- Launchpad: West Yorkshire, Cluster Management
The MFA strand is open to single organisations only, and your project’s grant funding request must be between £25,000 and £100,000. This can cover up to 100% of costs.
The CR&D strand is for collaborative projects, and your project’s total grant funding request must be between £150,000 and £1 million. This can cover up to 70% of costs depending on business size.
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To lead a project in the MFA strand, your organisation must:
- be a UK registered micro, small or medium-sized enterprise (SME)
- be active or growing your work activities in the health technology innovation cluster in West Yorkshire
A business can lead on only one MFA strand application for this competition.
To lead a project in the CR&D strand, your organisation must:
- be a UK registered business of any size
- be or involve at least one grant claiming micro, small or medium-sized enterprise (SME)
- collaborate with other UK registered organisations
- be active or growing your work activities in the health technology innovation cluster in West Yorkshire
- have a demonstrable ambition for business growth
A business can lead on only one CR&D strand application for this competition, but can be included as a collaborator in any number of applications.
If an organisation is not leading any application, it can collaborate in any number of applications.
If you apply to the MFA strand of this competition, as well as this CR&D strand, each project must be clearly distinctive and separate. We will monitor closely for this separation if you are awarded funding in both competition strands.
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For the MFA strand, your project must:
- have a total grant funding request of between £25,000 and £100,000
- last between 6 and 12 months
- intend to exploit the results from or in the UK
- start at the earliest on 1 April 2024
- end by 30 April 2025
For the CR&D strand, your project must:
- be collaborative
- have a total grant funding request of between £150,000 and £1 million
- last between 6 and 18 months
- intend to exploit the results from or in the UK
- start at the earliest on 1 April 2024
- end by 31 March 2026
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The aim of this competition is to support outstanding innovation projects led by businesses. Your business must be active or growing work activities in the health technology innovation cluster in West Yorkshire.
The geographical requirement is set to align this competition to the Government’s goals in the Levelling Up White Paper.
Your project must focus on health technology innovation.
Your project can focus on one or more of the following:
- medical devices
- diagnostics, including In-Vitro Diagnostics (IVD)
- digital health, including data driven health technologies and artificial intelligence (AI)
- other health technology innovations that can be shown to be in scope
Your project must lead to increased investment into research and innovation. It must contribute to growing business activities and economic impact in the cluster.
Your proposal must explain how your team and project will contribute to equality, diversity and inclusivity (EDI) in the cluster.
In support of the Government’s Levelling Up goals, we reserve the right to prioritise projects that:
- are shorter in duration
- significantly advance innovation in health technology
- are led by businesses already based in the innovation cluster
- have greater levels of activity outside the Greater South East
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Your project can focus on one or more of the following themes:
- overcoming health inequalities
- global net zero challenges in healthcare
- major health conditions
- the prevention of disease
- earlier and better detection and diagnosis of disease
This list is not exhaustive. Where you can show your proposal fits within the scope of this competition you can focus on other themes.
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Innovate UK held an online briefing event on Wednesday 8 November: click here to watch the recording.
If you would like help to find a project partner, contact Innovate UK KTN’s Health team.
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In considering the eligibility of your proposal you are encouraged to review:
- West Yorkshire innovation framework
- UK Major Conditions Strategy
- Medical technology strategy – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
- West Yorkshire Health Technology Strategy
- West Yorkshire Integrated care strategy
- Our Joint Forward Plan 2023: West Yorkshire Health & Care Partnership
Further information about the innovation cluster will be provided in the online briefing event which is now available to view.