Innovate UK has up to £200,000 and a package of tailored support to award to businesswomen who have exciting ideas and the potential to become leaders in innovation and deliver significant economic growth.
This is the first women only Innovate UK competition and is part of a new ‘infocus’ initiative to encourage diversity in innovation.
Awards will be spread across the four sector areas supported by Innovate UK:
- manufacturing and materials
- infrastructure systems
- emerging and enabling technologies
- health and life sciences
The competition opened on 1 June 2016 and the deadline for registration is noon on 24 August 2016. The awards are open to any woman in the UK working in business innovation in any of Innovate UK’s four sectors. Applicants can be a company owner, employee or sole trader in any size of business and must be legally and contractually able to use the grant funding on offer.
For further information, visit the website at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/women-in-innovation-apply-for-infocus-funding-award