Innovation & Technology Grants

College Business Partnerships

CBP is a UK wide pilot DTI scheme that brings together SMEs and Further Education Colleges.  It involves people recently qualified at NVQ level 4 or equivalent undertaking a year long project as an Associate in an SME involving technology that is both relevant and appropriate to the business. Each CBP Project is part-supported by a DTI grant to the FE Partner with additional contributions from the company....more info

Fraday Partnerships

A Faraday Partnership brings together a network of organisations that share a common sector or technology interest and is aimed at promoting improved interactions between the UK science and engineering base and industry....more info

Foresight Programme

The UK's Government-led Foresight programme brings people, knowledge and ideas together to look ahead and prepare for the future. Business, the science base, Government, the voluntary sector and others work through thirteen Foresight panels to think about what might happen in the future and what we can do about it now to increase prosperity and enhance the quality of life for all....more info

Foresight / Link Awards

The Awards support collaborative research projects between business and research base organisations. This provides opportunity for new technologies to be explored with a view to enhancing competitive success for business in current and new markets....more info

Invest to Save Budget

The Invest to Save Budget (ISB) is a cross Government scheme jointly administered by HM Treasury and Cabinet Office. It provides financial support to projects that bring together two or more public service bodies in an innovative way to improve services to local people or to reduce costs....more info

Management of Innovation Initiative

Is a DTI sponsored programme that aims to benefit the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) industries and ultimately their customers. It supports collaborative research into advanced information and communication technologies, products and systems for countering fraud, improving security and safeguarding privacy....more info

Research and Development (R&D) Tax Credit

This programme encourages small and medium sized firms in R&D....more info

Shell Technology Enterprise Programme (STEP)

STEP is a national programme designed to help SMEs and community organisations develop their potential by making use of the skills of undergraduates, and also to encourage undergraduates to consider a career in smaller firms....more info

TCS - Access to knowledge

TCS enables firms to take advantage of the wealth of scientific, engineering, technological and business management skills and knowledge available in universities and other research and technology-based organisations (the 'knowledge base')....more info

Technology Partnership Initiative

TPI is a government initiative which aims to give firms in developing, industrialising and emerging countries better access to environmental technologies and techniques widely adopted in the UK. TPI is administered by the Joint Environmental Markets Unit (JEMU)....more info

University Challenge

The purpose of University Challenge is to enable universities to establish seed funds, which will assist the successful transformation of good research into good business....more info