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FOI2021/00474: Statistics on SMART grant May 2021 competition

Case reference FOI2021/00474

Published 5 January 2022

Request

Request Received: 1 November 2021

I am writing to request the following information with regard to the below Innovate UK competition to better understand the funding assessment process. For the following competition, please can you kindly provide: SMART May 2021 (Competition closed: Wednesday 25th August 2021).

1. Total number of applications

2. Total number of successful applications

3. Total number of applications ineligible for assessment

4. Total number of applications considered a resubmission of a previous application

5. Total number of successful applications which were considered a resubmission of a previous application

6. The score of the lowest scoring funded project

7. The score of the highest-scoring funded project

8. The average (mean) score of funded projects

9. The average number of Assessors indicating that they recommend a project for funding per application

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

11. The number of applications funded per 'Innovation area', split out by Stream 1 and 2

Response

Response Sent: 12 November 2021

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

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