1. Name Job Title @xxxxxxx
Funding Opportunities for the
Rail Supply Chain through InnovateUK
Presentation title
Name Job Title @xxxxxxx
Kelvin Davies
Innovation Lead Rail, Innovate UK
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2. Topics Covered Insight into the objectives of InnovateUK.
Review of future funding opportunities.
Highlights of previous successful applications.
Strategies for submitting a successful proposal.

3. Insight into the Objectives of Innovate UK
Innovate UK drives productivity and economic growth by supporting businesses to develop and realise the potential of new ideas.
We connect businesses to the partners, customers and investors that can help them turn ideas into commercially successful products and services and business growth.  
We fund business and research collaborations to accelerate innovation and drive business investment into R&D.  Our support is available to businesses across all economic sectors, value chains and UK regions.

4. Innovate UK ‘Fund & Connect’
Innovate UK drives productivity and economic growth by supporting businesses to develop new ideas.
We connect businesses to the people that can help them, and fund businesses and research collaborations in all economic sectors, value chains and UK regions to accelerate innovation.
‘Fund & Connect’
Innovate UK drives productivity and economic growth by supporting businesses to develop and realise the potential of new ideas.
We connect businesses to the partners, customers and investors that can help them turn ideas into commercially successful products and services and business growth.  
We fund business and research collaborations to accelerate innovation and drive business investment into R&D.  Our support is available to businesses across all economic sectors, value chains and UK regions.

5. Benefiting everyone through knowledge, talent and ideas.
Arts and Humanities Research Council
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
Economic and Social Research Council
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
Medical Research Council
Natural Environment Research Council
Science and Technology Facilities Council
Innovate UK
Research England
Benefiting everyone through knowledge, talent and ideas.
UK Research and Innovation brings together the 7 Research Councils, Innovate UK and Research England.
As part of UK Research and Innovation, Innovate UK drives productivity and economic growth by supporting businesses to develop and realise the potential of new ideas including those from the UK’s world-class research base.

6. Competitions for Other Customers

7. Catapult Centres Fostering innovation to drive economic growth
established and overseen by Innovate UK
part of a network of technology and innovation centres
bridge the gap between businesses, academia, research and government
transforming the UK’s ability to create new products and services
ensure global opportunities for the UK and sustained economic growth for the future
Catapult Centres
Fostering innovation to drive economic growth

8. Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN)
Find markets. Find solutions. Find funding.
KTN is a network partner of Innovate UK. It helps businesses get the best out of creativity, ideas and the latest discoveries to strengthen the UK economy and improve people’s lives.
KTN links new ideas and opportunities from all sectors with expertise, markets and finance through a network of businesses, universities, funders and investors.
KTN supported clean-tech company FeTu

9. 8,500 £18bn £6-7 9 jobs 70,000 11,000 £2.5bn £4.3bn Investment of
since 2007
Industry match funding taking the total value of projects above
£4.3bn
Up to
£18bn
in added value to the economy
Up to
£6-7
for every £1 we’ve invested
We’ve funded around
11,000
projects
8,500
unique organisations involved
9 jobs
for each organisation involved
70,000
jobs created in total

10. Review of Future Funding Opportunities
Innovate UK drives productivity and economic growth by supporting businesses to develop and realise the potential of new ideas.
We connect businesses to the partners, customers and investors that can help them turn ideas into commercially successful products and services and business growth.  
We fund business and research collaborations to accelerate innovation and drive business investment into R&D.  Our support is available to businesses across all economic sectors, value chains and UK regions.

11. Becoming a world leader in shaping the future of mobility
Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund: Grand Challenges
AI and data economy
Ageing
society
Clean growth
Future of mobility
Putting the UK at the forefront of the artificial intelligence and data revolution
Harnessing the power of innovation to help meet the needs of an ageing society
Maximising the advantages for UK industry from the global shift to clean growth
Becoming a world leader in shaping the future of mobility
Information:
Documents:
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12. Wave 1 challenges Ageing society AI and data economy
Future of mobility
Medicines manufacturing technologies
Satellites and space technology
Self-driving vehicles
Batteries for clean and flexible energy storage
Manufacturing and materials of the future
Robots for a safer world

13. Wave 2 challenges Ageing society AI and data economy Clean growth
Data to early diagnosis and precision medicine
Healthy ageing
Audience of the future
Quantum technology
Next-generation services
Energy revolution
Transforming construction
Transforming food production

14. Smart Grants For businesses in any sector
Smart grants enables businesses to apply for grant funding regardless of technical or industrial area of focus
funding is offered to businesses that submit the best proposals in a competitive application process
5 competitions run in 2018/19, each offering £20 million funding
Current competition :
Paul Holt, founder, Photocentric

15. RSSB Opportunities Ageing society AI and data economy Clean growth
Data to early diagnosis and precision medicine
Healthy ageing
Audience of the future
Quantum technology
Next-generation services
Energy revolution
Transforming construction
Transforming food production
Data Sandbox+, £650k demonstrator projects, closes 5h Jul and 6th Dec
RSSB R&D Home Page:
Sandbox Information:
Call document:

16. Innovate UK Opportunities
All InnovateUK opportunities are listed at:
funding.service.gov.uk/competition/search
Highlights:
Smart grants (open) competition, rolling programme of competitions at ~£20M
Competitions delivered as part of ISCF activities
Circa competitions open at any one time, typically with each open for ~2 months
Future rail competitions will be listed here
Other competitions may be equally relevant
Cross-sector activities are welcomed

17. Innovate UK Opportunities
Summary: How to keep informed
Monitor
Register for ISCF Updates
Subscribe to Knowledge Transfer Network Updates

18. Highlights of Previous Successful Applications
Innovate UK drives productivity and economic growth by supporting businesses to develop and realise the potential of new ideas.
We connect businesses to the partners, customers and investors that can help them turn ideas into commercially successful products and services and business growth.  
We fund business and research collaborations to accelerate innovation and drive business investment into R&D.  Our support is available to businesses across all economic sectors, value chains and UK regions.

19. Innovate UK – Rail Competitions (2017 – present)
Department for Transport Funded
2017 Accelerating Innovation
in Rail
First of a Kind Round 1: Tomorrow’s Trains Today
First of a Kind Round 2: Tomorrow’s Stations Today
De-carbonising the railway
First of a Kind Round 3 Infrastructure Resilience
Operational Resilience
Freight
Noise and Environment
Low-cost High-Value Rail
Customer experience in stations
Minimising disruption to Train Services
Intelligent trains

20. Innovate UK – Rail Competition Highlights to Date
Rapport: an approach to get emergency services to incidents and casualties more rapidly and to help minimise network disruption.
New seating approach to maximise train passenger capacity: compact seating for commuter services.
CloseRFIT: releasing unoccupied reserved seats.
Transreport Passenger Assist System: a real-time system for the disability community to request travel assistance.
Journeys Unlocked: audio-based accessibility to support navigation to a specific reserved seat on a train for poorly-sighted customers.
Innovation in Novel (TRAIN) Battery Technologies: an approach for rapidly recharging battery trains at stations.

21. InnovateUK – Rail Projects Awarded Funding
Accelerating Innovation in Rail Round 4
Accelerating Innovation in Rail Round 5
First of a Kind Round 1
First of a Kind Round 2

22. A Successful Proposal
Innovate UK drives productivity and economic growth by supporting businesses to develop and realise the potential of new ideas.
We connect businesses to the partners, customers and investors that can help them turn ideas into commercially successful products and services and business growth.  
We fund business and research collaborations to accelerate innovation and drive business investment into R&D.  Our support is available to businesses across all economic sectors, value chains and UK regions.

23. Application Assessment
All applications are assessed by independent assessors drawn from industry and academia
Each application will be reviewed by several assessors to provide an average score.
What do the assessors look for?
Clear and concise answers
The right amount of information
not too much detail
no assumptions
Quantification and justification
That the applicant (team) has presented a viable opportunity for growth, a level of innovation that necessitates public sector investment and an appropriate team and approach to take it forward
After we receive your applications they are assessed by independent assessors who are experts in their field.
Assessors are drawn from business and academia.
It’s important that your application is clear for the assessors so they understand your project without making assumptions.
Get somebody else to read it for you as a detached viewer as what’s clear to you might not be clear to the assessors.

24. Review of Assessor Scores
InnovateUK Assessment Process
Ranking
1st Application
2nd Application
3rd Application ……
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nth Application
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xth Application
yth Application
zth Application
Assessor 1
Score 1
Assessor 2
Score 2
Application
Assessor 3
Score 3
Overall Score
Assessor 4
Score 4
Review of Assessor Scores
Assessor 5
Score 5

25. InnovateUK Assessment Process
Ranking
1st Application
2nd Application
3rd Application ……
…..
nth Application
.....
xth Application
yth Application
zth Application
Target Zone
Fundable projects and budget available
Fundable projects but insufficient budget available
Projects not scored sufficiently high for funding

26. InnovateUK Assessment Process
Funding Limit

27. What not to do Typical Application Errors
Incomplete application / blank sections on application
Inappropriate Budget
Wrong collaborators
Wrong Application Format
Late application
Not innovative

28. What to do Read the questions Answer the question that is asked
Answer all questions with equal attention
When you have finished your application, re-read the competition documents
Explain why the project is within scope
Explain why the project is innovative
Be realistic in your ambition
Make it clear that you are interested to get to market

29. Thank You