Innovate-Uk

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Frontier AI Benchmarking Datasets 2026: Historical Innovate UK Competition for UK AI Benchmark and Dataset Projects

Innovate UK ran a closed 2026 competition for collaborations creating benchmark datasets, curated annotated datasets, and evaluation harnesses for priority AI missions in health, life sciences, and advanced materials.

Status: Historical Type: Grant Amount: Share of up to £4.5 million; minimum £4.5 million allocated across the competition Deadline: Historical reference Location: United Kingdom

Full ADOPT Grant: Round Eight

An open Innovate UK ADOPT competition for established farming, growing or forestry businesses in England to fund collaborative on-farm trials with total project costs between £50,000 and £200,000.

Status: Deadline Passed Type: Grant Amount: Up to £5,000,000 total competition funding Deadline: Aug 12, 2026 Location: England and United Kingdom

Future offshore wind technologies: industrial research (research organisations)

Historical Innovate UK competition for UK-registered business collaborations undertaking industrial research in offshore wind. The competition closed on 3 June 2026 and offered a share of up to £10 million across both strands.

Status: Historical Type: Grant Amount: Up to £10,000,000 across both strands Deadline: Historical reference Location: United Kingdom

Growth Cohorts: Next generation low carbon concrete cohort entry

Historical Innovate UK stage-one entry competition for UK-registered businesses developing solutions to decarbonise concrete. The closed round offered a £50,000 grant to develop an innovation and growth plan, with a possible route to a later invite-only stage two.

Status: Historical Type: Grant Amount: £50,000 stage-one grant request Deadline: Historical reference Location: United Kingdom

Innovate UK Quantum Computing Applications for Large Scale Impact: £13 Million for Collaborative Quantum Software Projects Worth £300,000 to £4 Million, Closing 16 September 2026

Innovate UK is investing up to £13 million in collaborative R&D projects that build and validate quantum computing software for real industrial and public sector problems, with grant requests between £300,000 and £4 million, projects of 24 to 36 months, and applications closing at 11:00am UK time on 16 September 2026.

Status: Open Type: Grant Amount: £300,000 to £4,000,000 grant per project, capped at £1,000,000 per organisation, from a total … Deadline: Sep 16, 2026 Location: United Kingdom

Innovate UK Scaling Performance of Quantum Computing Hardware CR&D 2026: Share of £33 Million for Fault-Tolerant Quantum Hardware

Innovate UK is investing up to £33 million in collaborative R&D grants of £1 million to £3.5 million to develop device-level hardware and software for universal fault-tolerant quantum computers, with applications closing 18 September 2026.

Status: Open Type: Grant Amount: Up to £33 million total; £1 million to £3.5 million grant request per project Deadline: Sep 18, 2026 Location: United Kingdom

Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP): 2026 to 2027 Round 2

A closed Innovate UK competition that offered UK knowledge bases up to £10 million for strategic innovation projects with UK businesses; the round closed on 24 June 2026.

Status: Historical Type: Grant Amount: Total fund £10,000,000. Individual projects typically have eligible costs of £8,500 per month Deadline: Historical reference Location: United Kingdom

Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP): 2026 to 2027 Round 2 — Historical Reference

Historical reference for Innovate UK’s closed Knowledge Transfer Partnership round 2 for 2026 to 2027, which offered a share of a £10 million budget to UK knowledge bases working with UK businesses on strategic innovation projects.

Status: Historical Type: Grant Amount: up to £10,000,000 competition budget Deadline: Historical reference Location: United Kingdom

Medicines Manufacturing: Labs of the Future 2026: Up to £1.5 Million for UK SME Automation Projects

The 2026 Innovate UK competition is closed. It offered UK registered businesses a share of up to £7.5 million to develop and use digital, automated and robotic technologies for pharmaceutical process development and manufacturing.

Status: Historical Type: Grant Amount: Up to £7.5 million total fund; eligible project grant requests from £500,000 to £1.5 million Deadline: Historical reference Location: United Kingdom

National Materials Innovation Programme: Feasibility Studies Round 2

Historical reference for Innovate UK's closed National Materials Innovation Programme feasibility-studies competition, which offered up to £2 million for UK materials innovation projects.

Status: Historical Type: Grant Amount: Up to £2,000,000 total competition fund Deadline: Historical reference Location: United Kingdom