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FOI2021/00052: SMART Grants August 2020

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Case reference FOI2021/00052

Published 23 June 2021

Request

Request Received: 8 February

Innovate UK Smart Grants: August 2020 (Competition opened: 28/08/2020, Competition closed 25/08/2020).

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 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 questions 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: 8 March 2021

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