IBIC Cluster / Network Building Scheme

Funding between £500 and £5,000 to cover a variety of network activities including workshops, sandpits, project and skills training to fill gaps, scoping exercises, showcases, demonstrations, knowledge exchange and public engagement

IBIC Secondment Exchange Scheme

Funding of up to £60,000 to support secondments between university partners and businesses, focussing on developing specific commercial industrial biotechnology research outputs whilst extending the culture and skills for business engagement at university partners.

IBIC Proof of Concept Scheme

Funding of up to £30,000 to support early evaluation prototypes or demonstrators, initial trials or scoping exercises.

IBIC Relationship Development Scheme

Seed funding of up to £10,000 to help build relationships between industry and academics, and supporting market discovery.

IBIC Commercial Development Fund

Commercial development grants of up to £50,000 for researchers to support essential market and competitive landscaping, technology evaluation and external engagement to drive start-up, spin-out and licensing opportunities.

Translation Manchester — Confidence 4 Translation

Fund of up to £75,000 to allow researchers to unlock translational bottlenecks.

Ideas with Impact

Competition to win £20,000, £50,000 or £100,000 for ideas which help solve the world's biggest issues.

Eli and Britt Harari Graphene Award

Competition to win £20,000 and £50,000 to help establish new companies involving graphene or other 2D materials.

Venture Further Awards

Competition to win £15,000 - £100,000 to showcase the latest ventures.

Kickstarter Award

Grants of up to £2,000 to explore and test new ideas in the market.

Royce Proof of Market

Competition for up to £10,000 to bridge the gap between research and commercialisation by enabling researchers to assess market viability and develop robust commercialisation insights.

Analysis 4 Innovators (A4I)

Competition for £15,000 - £100,000 for small collaborative innovation projects working with Innovate UK's A4I partners to solve existing analysis and measurement problems related to products, services and processes owned or used by the company.

Metamaterials Industrial Collaboration Programme

Grant funding from £50,000 - £130,000 for research, development and innovation sprints for metamaterials.

Industrial Collaboration Programme

Grant funding from £50,000 - £130,000 for R&D and innovation sprint projects that address national materials challenges.

Researcher & Student Equipment Access Scheme

Funding for access to equipment

SME Equipment Access Scheme

Subsidised access to equipment

Health Innovation Accelerator — DEVOTE

Prohramme focussing on Development and Validation of Technology for Time Critical Genomic Testing, brings together academia, industry and clincal partners to deliver enhanced genomic diagnostics

Health Innovation Accelerator — Advanced Diagnostics Accelerator (ADA)

Accelerator which brings together academia and industry to focus on GM's major morbities with advanced diagnostics, digital and data.

AccelerateME

A 12 week accelerator progamme to give students everything they need to get their start-up off the ground

TIC Engine Room

A six month accelerator programme supporting AI-first scale-ups in GM

Incubator

A six month programme to support dounders through the early months of a new venture, focussed on founders and pre-seed deeptech startups

Venture Programme

Helping PhD students translate ideas into deeptech startups

Startup Weekend

A weekend-long event teaching about how to build a startup

Venture Builder

A 12 week programme helping to test, refine and build to get closer to market ready

Get Pitching

A programme to allow businesses to master the art of pitching, elevate ideas and delivery

Bridging the Gap

A programme to allow SMEs to allow them to overcome challenges and apply graphene and other advanced 2D materials in a range of applications and markets