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FOI2021/00204: Smart Grants: November 2020

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Case reference FOI2021/00204

Published 1 July 2021

Request

Request Received: 15 April 2021

For the Innovate UK Smart Grants November 2020 competition, for both the <18 month (<£500k) and >18 month (up to £2 million) streams:

1. The number of applications

2. The number of successful applications

3. The success rate

4. The minimum successful score

5. The maximum successful score

6. Maximum score of failed applications

7. Average grant fund value per project

8. Total funds allocated

9. The score distributions of the applications (e.g. % and number of applications which scored 0 - 70, 70.1 - 75, 75.1 - 80, 80.1 - 85, 85.1 - 100)

10. The count of successful projects by innovation area for each strand.

I would also like to request the number of (if any):

• Unsuccessful applications, which scored above the minimum successful score

• Applications awarded funding that scored below the minimum successful score

• Unsuccessful applications that were followed up with complaints/disputes about assessor scoring quality, of which;

o How many of these had scores increased following complaint and scoring recalculation

o How many had scores increased so that they were then above the minimum successful score

Response

Response Sent: 23 April 2021

Full details of this response are provided in the attached document.

Documents

• FOI_Response_Letter_FOI2021_00204_Redacted.pdf (519.8 KB)

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