Analysis for Innovators (A4I) competition: round 13

UK businesses can apply for a share of up to £1 million to resolve productivity and competitiveness issues by working with top scientists and research facilities.

Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, will invest up to £1 million in small collaborative innovation projects working with their Analysis for Innovators (A4I) partners:

• the National Physical Laboratory
• the National Measurement Laboratory
• the National Engineering Laboratory
• the Science and Technology Facilities Council
• Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
• National Gear Metrology Lab
• Newton Gateway to Mathematics
• Advanced Sustainable Manufacturing Technologies
• Henry Royce Institute

The competition aims to help businesses address their existing analysis and measurement problems. These are problems that can be best explored by scientists and cutting-edge facilities available in the UK.

Your proposal must describe a measurement or analysis problem where you are seeking a solution to improve your business' productivity or competitiveness. You must provide an estimate of the value to your business of solving it.

This is stage 1 of a 2-stage competition. No funding is awarded at this stage.

If successful at this stage, you will be invited to brokerage consultations with relevant A4I partners. These will focus on potential approaches to solving your problem. You will work together to propose joint projects to develop solutions and apply for the stage 2 competition to request funding.

Following assessment, successful stage 2 applications will be grant funded, to work with the relevant A4I partner organisations.

Find out more about the A4I competition.

First published 19 March 2024