Launchpad Competition to support Health Technology Innovation Cluster in West Yorkshir (UK)

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.

• 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

Specific Themes

• 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

Funding Information

• Your project’s grant funding request must be between £25,000 and £100,000.
• Projects they will not fund
  • They are not funding projects that:
    • do not contribute to innovation activity in the health technology cluster in West Yorkshire
    • are within scope of the Cluster management strand of this Launchpad competition
    • request grant funding of less than £25,000 or more than £100,000
  • They cannot fund projects that:
    • involve primary production in fishery and aquaculture
    • involve primary production in agriculture
    • have activities relating to the purchase of road freight transport
    • are not allowed under De minimis regulation restrictions
    • are not eligible to receive Minimal Financial Assistance
    • are dependent on export performance, for example giving an award to a baker on the condition that they export a certain quantity of bread to another country
    • are dependent on domestic inputs usage, for example if they give an award to a baker on the condition that they use 50% UK flour in their product

Eligibility Criteria

• Your project
  • 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
• Lead organisation
  • To lead a project 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
  • have a demonstrable ambition for business growth
• Subcontractors
  • Subcontractors are allowed in this competition. Their contribution must add to the innovation led growth of the cluster.
  • Subcontractors can be from anywhere in the UK and you must select them through your usual procurement process.
  • They expect all subcontractor costs to be justified and appropriate to the total eligible project costs.
• Number of applications
  • A business can lead on only one MFA strand application for this competition.

For more information, visit Innovate UK.