Summary of the latest funding competitions and support for Digital and Creative startups and SMEs.

1. CREATIVE, DIGITAL
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March 2018
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3. Main Feature
Innovate UK funding calls
Funding Competitions
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Investment
Latest News
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Immerse UK are over half way there with their case
study programme featuring best in class UK
immersive tech content, applications and services.
Focusing on ground-breaking innovation and
showcasing best practice approaches, their case
studies demonstrate how immersive technologies
have the potential to transform businesses across
all sectors
Immerse UK Case Studies

5. VoTech Seed 2018
Closes: 14 March 2018
Funding
Grants of up to £50,000 are available for innovative digital
projects that have the potential to change the face of
vocational education
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6. Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund Expression of Interest
Closes: 18 April 2018
Funding
Innovate UK are inviting ideas for the third wave of
societal and industrial challenges to tackle as part of
government's Industrial Strategy. The four challenges
are : artificial intelligence and the data economy, clean
growth, the future of mobility and meeting the needs of
an ageing society
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7. Support for SMEs to evaluate innovative medical
technologies
Closes: 21 March 2018
Funding
The Office for Life Sciences (OLS) in partnership with Innovate
UK is to invest up to £1 million to support developers of
innovative medicines, medical devices, diagnostics and
regulated digital technology to evaluate their product in a real
world clinical setting.
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8. January 2018 sector competition: Strand 2 - Emerging and
Enabling Technologies
Closes: 28 March 2018
Funding
The aim of this emerging and enabling strand is to help
businesses to innovate in order to find sources of revenue from
new products, processes or services.
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9. Improving Health Through Digital Innovations
Closes: 18 April 2018
Funding
Innovate UK has up to £8 million to invest in new technologies
through the digital health technology catalyst. The catalyst was
set up under the government’s Industrial Strategy Challenge
Fund to address challenges around the development of digital
health innovations.
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10. Digital Health Technology Catalyst Round 2
Closes: 18 April 2018
Funding
Funded through the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund, the Digital
Health Technology Catalyst (DHTC) is a £35 million fund, being run over
4 years. The DHTC is an important element of the government’s plans to
implement the Accelerated Access Review (AAR).
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11. March 2018 Sector Competition
Closes: 09 May 2018
Funding
UK businesses can apply for a share of £19 million for game-changing
innovations with strong commercial potential that will significantly
impact the UK economy
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12. Connected and Autonomous Vehicles Simulation:
Collaborative R&D
Closes: 02 May 2018
Funding
The Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CCAV), in
partnership with Innovate UK, is investing up to £15 million in industry-
led projects. These will use holistic simulation and modelling systems to
develop approval mechanisms and standards.
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13. GovStart Programme
Closes: 30 April 2018
Funding
GovStart is a sixth-month growth-programme to help tech startups
transform the public sector. Startups of a variety of sizes and industry
focuses are welcomed to apply. The programme will provide them with
the tailored support, strategy and networks they need to succeed in the
public sector market.
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14. Machine Learning Intelligence Garage
Closes: 22 April 2018
Funding
Machine Intelligence Garage is a programme ran by the Digital Catapult
that helps businesses access the computation power and expertise they
need to develop and build machine learning and artificial intelligence
solutions.
CLICK TO FIND OUT MORE

15. Upcoming Events
Thurs 22 March, Liverpool
Digital Business Drop-In
Wed 21 March, Belfast
Proposed £20m ISCF Next
Generation Services workshops
Wed 21 March - Thur 22 March,
London
Smart IoT - InnOvaTe Launchpad
Exhibition
Tues 27 March, Farnborough
Innovation South Showcase
Wed 21 March, London
KTN and Innovate UK Innovation
Day with Magna
Wed 28 March, Birmingham
ISCF Healthy Ageing: Behavioural
Science and Design Networking
Workshop: Expression of Interest

16. Upcoming Events
24 April, Peterborough | 25 April,
Ipswich | 26 April, Chelmsford
3D Printing Week 2018
5-7 April, London
Future Tech Now
Thurs 29 March, London
Digital Business Drop-In

17. Investment
Digital Refer now includes more than 250 organisations that provide
private investment to Digital and Creative businesses in the UK,
including:
Accelerator Programmes
Business Incubators
Start-up Studios
Venture Capital Funds
Angel Investor Networks
Corporate Venture Capital firms
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Private Investment Directory

18. Latest News
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January 2018 sector
competition: Strand 2 -
Emerging and Enabling
Technologies
Through a wide range of sectors -
applications of satellite data and signals
are playing an increasingly important
part in our lives, and in the growth of UK
business. You could be eligible for
funding in the Innovate UK Health & Life
Sciences and Emerging & Enabling
Technologies competition

19. Latest News
Innovation Nation: Bruce
McClelland on making
cities smarter
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Urban living: what does it mean? Easy
access to theatres and nice restaurants?
Or transport chaos and a shortage of
decent schools? Urban Living Specialist,
Bruce McLelland, works closely with
cities to help identify common and
regionally-specific challenges. View his
podcast and join the conversation.

20. Latest News How to bring an emerging
wearable technology to
the market
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Now in its fifth year, the Wearable
Technology Show is the largest event for
anyone working in or around wearables
and augmented reality. Over 6,000
attendees and 300 speakers will come
together to exchange views, network and
do business at the show.

21. Latest News UK Participation in Horizon
2020: overview with Q&A
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The European Council formally agreed on
15 December that sufficient progress had
been made to move on to the second
stage of Brexit negotiations and the UK
and EU have committed to translating
the Joint Report into a legally-binding
Withdrawal Agreement as soon as
possible.

22. Latest News Open Active
Accelerator Programme
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If you have an innovative idea that uses
open opportunity data to help people
discover and take part in physical
activities, you can apply for the Open
Active Accelerator programme ran by the
Open Data Institute (ODI)

23. Latest News CAP-AI
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CAP-AI is a knowledge transfer program
designed to support research intensive
data driven start ups which use Machine
Learning or other computational
methods to deliver commercial products.
This is an ERDF funded program ran by
Capital Enterprise with aim to help
support and grow London’s prominent
A.I. cluster.