Advanced Manufacturing & Materials grants
Innovate UK and UKRI funding for process, production and materials innovation
Manufacturing and materials proposals win when they make a measurable difference to cost, yield, quality or carbon, not when they describe a better machine in isolation. Innovate UK Made Smarter, UKRI research councils and Horizon Europe's digital industry cluster all back manufacturing innovation, but each wants a different evidence base.
Funders funding advanced manufacturing & materials
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Programmes that fit advanced manufacturing & materials companies
Innovate UK CR&D competitions
Process innovation, digital manufacturing, advanced materials and robotics for UK SMEs.
Made Smarter Innovation
Digital adoption and industrial digital technology for manufacturers.
Horizon Europe Digital, Industry and Space
Advanced manufacturing, materials and digital industry research at EU scale.
What assessors actually score
- A quantified process improvement against today's baseline
- IP and know-how protection that fits a competitive manufacturing strategy
- Supply-chain and scale-up evidence, not just a prototype
Where we work in advanced manufacturing & materials
Advanced Manufacturing & Materials grants in our directory
Live programmes from the UK grant directory that suit advanced manufacturing & materials projects. Deadlines move between rounds, so each listing links through to the current detail.
Aerospace Technology Institute
ATI Programme (including SME strand)
Co-funded R&D grants supporting companies developing aerospace technology with a UK supply chain benefit.
Innovate UK
Collaborative R&D (CR&D) competitions
Mission-led competitions under the Innovate UK plans (e.g. Clean Energy Superpower Mission) funding partnerships between businesses and research organisations.
Innovate UK
Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTP)
Three-way partnership between a business, an academic institution and a graduate to deliver a strategic innovation project.
Innovate UK
Quantum computing hardware scale-up CR&D
Themed competition funding UK quantum computing hardware development towards commercial scale.
Welsh Government
SMARTCymru
Grant funding for Wales-based businesses undertaking industrial research or experimental development.
Relevant client wins
Grants our team has won for companies solving comparable technical problems.
£452,654
For composite production leap
Mayku
Advanced manufacturing: composites
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£699,030
For robotic polypill manufacturing
FASST
Life sciences: pharmaceutical manufacturing
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