FOI2020/00371: Smart Grants: January 2020
Case reference FOI2020/00371
Published 17 June 2021
Request
Request Received: 2 November 2020
You have previously received a request, reference FOI2020/00197, for information about the Innovate UK Smart Grants competition of January 2020.
At the time of your final response in July 2020, you did not have all the information requested available because the assessment process had not been completed. I would be grateful if you could now provide the information originally requested. Please could you provide the following information in regard to the Smart Grants: January 2020 Competition:
1. Total number of applications
2. Number of assessed applications (not disregarded due to being deemed out of scope etc)
3. Number of applications funded
4. Number of applications funded per 'innovation area'
5. Average funding amount per project
6. Smallest and largest amount of funding per project
7. Average score
8. Success threshold
9. Decision-making process based on portfolio (i.e. why higher scoring projects might not get funded and lower scoring project get funded).
I believe it is in the public interest for this information to be published, ensuring that UKRI / Innovate UK are held accountable for their utilisation and allocation of public money.
Response
Response Sent: 6 November 2020
Full details of this response are provided in the attached document.
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