Launchpad: Health Technology, West Yorkshire – R1 CR&D (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.

Your project can focus on one or more of the following:

• medical devices
• diagnostics, including In-Vitro Diagnostics (IVD)
• digital health, including data driven health technologies and artificial intelligence (AI)

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

• Project size: Your project’s total grant funding request must be between £150,000 and £1 million.
• Projects we 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 £150,000 or more than £1 million
  • They cannot fund projects that are:
    • dependent on export performance, for example giving a subsidy to a baker on the condition that it exports a certain quantity of bread to another country
    • dependent on domestic inputs usage, for example giving a subsidy to a baker on the condition that it uses 50% UK flour in their product

Eligibility Criteria

• Your project
  • Your project must:
    • last between 6 and 18 months
    • intend to exploit the results from or in the UK
    • start at the earliest on 1 April 2024
    • end by 31 March 2026
• Lead organisation
  • To lead a project your organisation must:
    • be a UK registered business of any size
    • be or involve at least one grant claiming micro, small or medium-sized enterprise (SME)
    • collaborate with other UK registered organisations
    • be active or growing your work activities in the health technology innovation cluster in West Yorkshire
    • have a demonstrable ambition for business growth
• Project team
  • 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)
• Non-funded partners
  • Your project can include partners that do not receive any of this competition’s funding, for example non-UK businesses. Their costs will count towards the total project costs.
• 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.
  • All subcontractor costs must be justified and appropriate to the total project costs.
• Number of applications
  • A business can lead on only one CR&D strand application for this competition, but can be included as a collaborator in any number of applications.
  • If an organisation is not leading any application, it can collaborate in any number of applications.

For more information, visit Innovate UK.