FOI release

FOI2025/00229: Innovate UK Smart grants: July 2024

Case reference FOI2025/00229

Received 21 February 2025

Published 20 March 2025

Request

FOI2025/00229: Request Received: 21 February 2025

For Innovate UK’s Innovate UK Smart grants: July 2024 competition both the <18 month <£500k and >18 month streams, please could you release the following information:

1. The number of applications.

2. The number of assessed applications.

3. The number of successful applications.

4. The success rate.

5. The minimum successful score.

6. The maximum successful score.

7. Maximum score of failed applications.

8. Average grant fund value per project.

9. Average score of funded projects.

10. The score distributions of the applications (e.g. % (or number) of applications which scored <70, 70.1-75, 75.1-80, 80.1-85, 85.1-90, 90.1-95, 95.1-100).

11. The count of assessed applications by innovation area.

12. The count of successful projects by innovation area for each strand.

13. The count of assessed applications by research category (feasibility studies, industrial research, experimental development).

14. The count of successful projects by research category.

15. The number of unsuccessful applications, if any, which scored above the minimum funded score.

Response

Response Sent: 20 March 2025

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