UK Innovation Funding

What are Blended Funding Schemes?  

Blended or public-private funding schemes combine grants with private investor moneyto support innovative companies in various industries. Private investors collaborate with the government funding agencies in the process of selecting and allocating the funding to promising SMEs, following targeted and sector-focused competitions. 

At Winnovart, we believe t...

This is a new blended funding opportunity for private investors and SMEs on the UK market. 

Programme name: Transforming food production: series A investor partnership.

Innovate UK (IUK) offersGBP 7 million in grants-funding for a new Investor Partnership Programme in the UK Transforming Foundation Industries/ Investor Partner selection 2020. 

Private investors have a new funding opportunity to partner with Innovate UK for the healthy ageing investor partnership programme that is looking to invest in high growth potential small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) that aspire to find solution addressing the issues associated with ageing well.

Public-Private funding schemes or blended schemes combining private funding and grants have the potential to change the grants-funding market space in the UK (and Europe).

It is the start of a new decade for us all in general, and this partly applies to the grants-funding marketspace in Europe, too (funding cycles are actually a bit shorter than a decade).

Digitalisation of funding advisory services with Winnovart. In 2018 we have started a digitalisation process in the way we are delivering our services. Our clients and partners have now access anytime and anywhere to valuable content and insights, relevant for the projects we are collaborating on. This is helping us accelerate the process, while offering our clients a more enjoyable collaboration...

Only 20% of UK small and medium enterprises eligible to receive tax refunds for innovation apply. These 20% received £1.3 billion in the 2015-2016 tax year alone. Altogether, SMEs and large enterprises have received nearly £3 billion in this period. For more information on the R&D Tax Credits you could also read our summary of the statistics on the R&D Tax Credits in the UK pulished by HMRC,...

At Winnovart, our focus has always been grants-based funding programmes, such as the ones from Innovate UK, EC/ Horizon 2020 or similar. Although under different terms, the Reaserch & Develpment (R&D) Tax Credit scheme offered by HMRC represents a way faster and less competitive alternative for R&D performing / innovative companies in the UK to receive a “funding-type” support. Or, for those...

Up to GBP 8 million to be invested in innovative partnership projects between the UK and China, that use cutting-edge technologies to solve agricultural challenges in China. Projects should address challenges related to agricultural technologies in one or more of these three sectors: