FOI2023/00217: Smart Grants: October 2022
Case reference FOI2023/00217
Published 1 August 2023
Request
Request Received: 19 April 2023
I would be very grateful if you could please provide the below information on the Innovate UK Smart Grants: October 2022 funding competition for both:
Stream 1 projects (6-18 months duration, eligible project costs between £100K-£500K), and Stream 2 projects (19-36 months duration, total eligible project costs between £100K-£2M). The information I would like to request is as follows:
1. The total number of applications submitted and
a. the number of those that were assessed (i.e. deemed eligible for funding)
2. The overall number of applications awarded funding and
a. a breakdown of how many of these were first-time applications and
b. how many were resubmissions
3. The total number of applications within each innovation area and the number of those that were successful in each area
4. The average grant request and project size of the applications successfully awarded funding
5. The funding thresholds and average scores of successful applications
6. The percentages of successful applications that were Industrial Research and Experimental Development
7. The number of successful Industrial Research and Experimental Development projects that were (i) single applicant/partner, (ii) 2 partners, (iii) 3+ partner
8. The total funding allocated in this competition round
9. How many projects awarded went to project set up
Response
Response Sent: 11 May 2023
Full details of this response are provided in the attached document.
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