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Biomedical Catalyst 2025: Industry led R&D small projects

Who it is for

This competition is open to single applicants and collaborations.

To work alone or lead a collaborative project, your organisation must be a UK-registered micro, small or medium-sized enterprise (SME) claiming grant funding in this application.

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)

Your project must:

• have total project costs up to £1 million
• not exceed a grant funding request of £500,000
• have at least 50% of the total project costs shared by the micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), if collaborative
• last between 6 months and 24 months
• start by 1 July 2026
• end by 28 June 2028

Support you can get

This competition aims to support micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in developing innovative health and healthcare solutions with strong commercial potential. 

This competition is split into two strands:

• Industry led R&D small projects: up to £500,000 grant funding (this strand)
• Industry led R&D large projects: up to £2 million grant funding

For industrial research projects, you can get funding for your eligible project costs of:

• up to 70% if you are a micro or small organisation
• up to 60% if you are a medium-sized organisation
• up to 50% if you are a large organisation

For experimental development projects which are nearer to market, you can get funding for your eligible project costs of:

• up to 45% if you are a micro or small organisation
• up to 35% if you are a medium-sized organisation
• up to 25% if you are a large organisation

Support organisers

• Innovate UK

Contact

Innovate UK

Email

support@iuk.ukri.org

Phone:

0300 321 4357

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