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FOI2021/00179: SMART November 2020

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Case reference FOI2021/00179

Published 29 June 2021

Request

Request Received: 26 March 2021

For the following competition, please can you kindly provide:

Innovate UK Smart Grants: November 2020 (Competition opened: 02/12/2020, Competition closed 20/01/2021).

1. Total number of applications (data broken down by stream)

2. Total number of successful applications (data broken down by stream)

3. Total number of applications ineligible for assessment (data broken down by stream)

4. Total number of applications considered a resubmission of a previous application (data broken down by stream)

5. Total number of successful applications which were considered a resubmission of a previous application (data broken down by stream)

6. The score of the lowest scoring funded project (data broken down by stream)

7. The score of the highest-scoring funded project (data broken down by stream)

8. The average (mean) score of funded projects (data broken down by stream)

9. The average number of Assessors indicating that they recommend a project for funding per application (data broken down by stream)

10. The number of projects with an outlying assessor score, which was removed

11. The number of projects against which an assessor marked that they would not recommend the project for funding

12. Please could you provide score raw data for each application question including Q1 through Q10

13. The exact programmed metrics used to route a project to 'ineligible' (i.e. the chain of pre-programmed questions/tick boxes the application is compared against within the system)

14. The number of projects deemed to be ineligible for reasons relating to UID

Response

Response Sent: 19 April 2021

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

Documents

• FOI_Response_Letter_FOI2021_00052_Redacted.pdf (198.8 KB)
• FOI_Response_Letter_FOI2021_00179_Redacted.pdf (299.6 KB)

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