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Grant Grant Scottish Enterprise R&D Grant
Scottish Enterprise
Discretionary R&D grant support from Scottish Enterprise for ambitious Scottish-based businesses undertaking commercially-relevant R&D with significant Scottish economic impact. Account-managed relationship-led process — not an open competition. Suited to growth-stage Scottish companies already known to (or worth knowing to) Scottish Enterprise.
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Grant South of Scotland Enterprise Grants
South of Scotland Enterprise
South of Scotland Enterprise Grants is a UK funding programme. Businesses in Dumfries & Galloway and the Borders accessing SOSE-backed funding for growth and innovation. Funding: Programme-dependent. South-of-Scotland businesses. It is published as a standard listing — verify current rounds and full criteria on the official source before applying.
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Grant Accelerated Knowledge Transfer (aKT)
Innovate UK
Accelerated Knowledge Transfer (aKT) is a UK funding programme. UK businesses partnering with an academic to deliver a 4-month feasibility-style KTP. Funding: Up to £35k. SMEs accessing rapid academic feasibility support. It is published as a standard listing — verify current rounds and full criteria on the official source before applying.
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Grant Advanced Propulsion Centre Collaborative R&D
Advanced Propulsion Centre UK
Advanced Propulsion Centre Collaborative R&D is a UK funding programme. UK automotive supply chain consortia developing low-carbon propulsion technologies. Funding: £5m–£25m typical. UK automotive R&D consortia. It is published as a standard listing — verify current rounds and full criteria on the official source before applying.
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Grant Advanced Propulsion Centre Funding
Advanced Propulsion Centre
Funding for low-carbon automotive R&D. Funding competitions supporting R&D in low-carbon automotive propulsion and zero-emission vehicle technologies in the UK. It is aimed at Automotive R&D collaborations. Eligibility typically requires UK-based automotive supply chain R&D projects. Competition-specific criteria. Application: Competition rounds.
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Grant Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI) SME Programme
Offers funding for civil aerospace research and technology development in the UK.
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Grant Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI) Strategic Programme
Funding for research and technology development to maintain and grow the UK’s competitive positions in civil aerospace.
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Grant Aerospace Technology Institute Programme
Aerospace Technology Institute
The Aerospace Technology Institute programme is a long-running UK aerospace R&D fund jointly delivered by DBT, Innovate UK, and the ATI. It funds substantial, multi-year, industry-led collaborative R&D projects aligned with the ATI's published technology strategy — typically zero-carbon flight, advanced systems, structures, and propulsion. Project costs commonly run from low millions to tens of millions; intervention rates follow standard subsidy control rules. Not appropriate for early-stage start-ups working in isolation or projects with no clear path to a UK aerospace supply chain.
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Grant Aerospace Technology Institute Programme — Strategic R&T Portfolio
Aerospace Technology Institute
The Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI) Programme co-invests with industry in UK civil aerospace R&D, with delivery in partnership with DBT and Innovate UK. Funding supports collaborative research projects from technology development through to demonstrator stages. A long-term UK government–industry co-investment in civil aerospace R&D. Eligibility typically requires UK aerospace businesses and academic partners with qualifying collaborative R&D projects. Funding is typically Match-funded aerospace R&D grants.
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Grant Automotive Transformation Fund
Advanced Propulsion Centre UK
Automotive Transformation Fund is a UK funding programme. UK strategic investments in electric vehicle supply chains: battery, motor, hydrogen and power electronics gigaprojects. Funding: Multi-million capital. Strategic UK EV supply-chain investors. It is published as a standard listing — verify current rounds and full criteria on the official source before applying.
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Grant Better Business Finance - UK
Free, quick and easy access to a directory of approved finance suppliers for UK businesses.
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Equity BGF Growth Capital
BGF (Business Growth Fund)
BGF Growth Capital is a UK funding programme. UK and Irish SMEs with turnover £1m+ raising minority growth equity (£1m–£15m initially). Funding: £1m–£15m. Profitable UK SMEs raising £1m–£15m minority equity. It is published as a standard listing — verify current rounds and full criteria on the official source before applying.
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Equity British Design Fund
British Design Fund
Equity and mentoring for UK product design startups. Private investor-led fund providing equity investment and mentoring for UK product design and manufacturing startups. It is aimed at UK product design/manufacturing startups. Eligibility typically requires UK product/design-led startups seeking equity investment. Selection criteria apply. Application: Cohort intakes.
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Grant Centre for Process Innovation — Open Calls
Centre for Process Innovation
Centre for Process Innovation — Open Calls is a UK funding programme. UK process manufacturers accessing CPI capability via Innovate UK competition and CPI-led projects. Funding: Project-dependent. UK process and biotech manufacturers. It is published as a standard listing — verify current rounds and full criteria on the official source before applying.
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Grant Compound Semiconductor Applications Catapult Open Calls
Compound Semiconductor Applications Catapult
Compound Semiconductor Applications Catapult Open Calls is a UK funding programme. UK companies developing applications of compound semiconductor technology. Funding: Varies. CS-application SMEs prototyping next-generation electronics. It is published as a standard listing — verify current rounds and full criteria on the official source before applying.
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Grant DRIVE35 Funding Programme
Capital and R&D funding for the UK automotive industry in the design, development and manufacturing of zero-emission vehicles and their supply chain.
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Grant Energy Entrepreneurs Fund
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
A competitive DESNZ grant fund for UK SMEs developing prototype low-carbon technologies — typically efficiency, heat, storage, or generation — where the business case is plausible but the technology is not yet bankable. Projects normally combine grant for prototype build or pilot deployment with structured incubation support. Run as discrete competition rounds rather than continuously, and orientated around tangible energy-system impact rather than pure research.
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