FOI release

FOI2020/00014: Smart Grant July 2019 Competition Statistics

Case reference FOI2020/00014

Published 8 July 2021

Request

Request Received: 14 January 2020

Please could you help me out by providing the below information, regarding Innovate UK's 'July 19' Smart Competition. (This competition had a deadline of 16/10/19. Applicants were notified of the outcomes of the competition on 10/01/20.)

Please could you provide the below information for both [A] Projects 18 months or less in duration, with total project cost of £500k or less; [B] Projects either over 18 months in duration and/or £500k project costs.

1. How many applications were submitted

2. How many applications were assessed by assessors (i.e. not deemed out of scope)

3. How many of the applications were resubmissions

4. Number of successful applications within each innovation area

5. The overall number funded

6. The average grant request of funded projects

7. The largest grant request of a funded project

8. The average score of successful applications

9. The lowest score of a successful application

10. The percentage of successful applications that were Industrial Research and the percentage that were Experimental Development.

In case this isn't a usual request, please notice that there is a difference between 'project costs' and 'grant'."

Response

Response Sent: 11 February 2020

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