FOI2026/00046: Innovate UK Grant Data 2022-2025
Case reference FOI2026/00046
Received 22 January 2026
Published 1 April 2026
Request
Request received: 22nd January 2026
By application deadline date, for the each of the calendar years 2022; 2023; 2024; and 2025 can I please request:
1) The total amount (monetary value) of Innovate UK funding awarded through a competitive application process (ie. the awared through applications submitted on IFS or equivalent awards - ie. to specific individual projects (rather than budget within UKRI directly allocated to IUK Buiness Connect funding / Catapults etc).
2) The total number of competitions this was awarded through.
4) The average success rate of all competitions
3) The total number of competitions which were "invite-only" ie. had eligibility criteria such must have been invited to this competition, or soft eligibility criteria such as "We are not funding projects that: have not been invited by Innovate UK into this competition" - typically these are not advertised on the apply for funding IFS page, but are sent as individual links to the eligibale applicants.
4) The budget / total amount awarded to these "invite-only" competitions, and the average success rate for these competitions.
5) The budget / total amount awarded to the subset of competitions which were NOT invite-only (as defined in 3) and the average success rate for this (5) subset of competitions.
Response
Response sent: 19th February 2026
Full details of this request are provided in the attached response.
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