The investments will build on the Technology Strategy Board's ongoing programme of activity to stimulate and support business-led innovation across the UK, through funding to aid the development of new technologies and a range of activity that fosters and encourages collaboration and knowledge sharing in a wide range of technology areas and business sectors across the UK.
The three new competitions are Energy Materials (£3m), Design for Future Climate (£2.4m) and ICT for high value manufacturing and construction (£7m) (please see brief details in the Notes to Editors).
In addition to the new competitions, the Department for Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has offered to support a recently-launched funding competition by providing an additional £500,000 for innovative research and development projects. The Nutrition for Life funding competition, which opens on 9 May, is intended to encourage the development of innovative processes and technologies with an emphasis on providing "healthy" and "safe" food and drink, and will support both feasibility studies and collaborative research & development projects.
Further information about the three new competitions will be available shortly on the competitions page of the Technology Strategy Board website – www.innovateuk.org
