FOI release

FOI2021/00377: SMART Grants Jan 2021

Case reference FOI2021/00377

Published 18 October 2021

Request

Request Received: 16 August 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 January 2021 (Competition closed: Thursday 27th May 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 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

Response

Response Sent: 7 September 2021

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

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