Key Features
Organisations can apply for a share of £6 million, inclusive of VAT, to develop or repurpose platform technologies. These technologies can be used as clinical tools to enable the bio-marker guided development of transformative dementia therapies.
Programme: Innovate UK
Award: Share of up to £6 million
Opens: 24th Jul 2023
Closes: 4th Sep 2023
This is a Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) competition funded by Innovate UK.
The aim of the competition is to accelerate innovations in dementia biomarker detection to transform the clinical development of precision therapies. These technologies will enable the discovery, validation and implementation of a suite of decision-enabling biomarkers. Your project can involve exemplar biomarkers that can be adapted towards a broader range of clinically actionable dementia markers.
This will be achieved by the development of or repurposing of technologies that will enable the robust detection of emerging dementia clinical biomarkers.
The application of innovations in wet biomarkers, data, and tools and services, will feed into and support the aims of the UK government’s Dame Barbara Windsor dementia mission.
Your project must:
Innovate UK are especially interested in technologies that enable detection during early stage of the disease.
Contracts will be given to successful applicants.
You must demonstrate a credible and practical route to market, so your application must include a plan to commercialise your results.
Innovate UK want to fund a variety of projects across different themes, technologies, technological maturities and platform technologies for dementia. We call this a portfolio approach.
Your project can focus on one or more of the following:
Innovate UK are particularly looking for minimally invasive wet biomarker solutions including, but not limited to, blood, saliva, urine or breath sampling.
Technologies applying cerebrospinal fluid, neuroimaging or digital tools that augment, integrate and support clinical biomarker decision support can be included as part of your project.
Initial technical development
This means planned research or critical investigation to gain new knowledge and skills for developing new technologies, tools, processes or services.
You must:
Projects must:
Applicant
To lead a project, you can:
This competition will not fund any procurement, commercial, business development or supply chain activity with any Russian or Belarusian entity as lead or subcontractor. This includes any goods or services originating from a Russian or Belarusian source.
You are responsible for entering your project costs and completing your Project Impact questions in the application.
Contracts will be awarded to a single legal entity only. However, if you can justify subcontracting components of the work, you can engage specialists or advisers. This work will still be the responsibility of the main contractor.
Subcontractors can be from anywhere in the UK and you must select them through your usual procurement process.
You can use subcontractors from overseas but must make the case in your application as to why you could not use suppliers from the UK.
You must provide a detailed rationale, evidence of the potential UK contractors you approached and the reasons why they were unable to work with you. We will not accept a cheaper cost as a sufficient reason to use an overseas subcontractor.
All subcontractor costs must be justified and appropriate to the total project costs.
Innovate UK are specifically looking to advance the platform tools that can be used in the clinical validation of biomarkers being developed within the dementia mission.
Innovate UK will not fund projects that:
A total of up to £6 million, inclusive of VAT, is allocated to this competition.
The feasibility study R&D contracts will range from £100,000 up to £1 million, inclusive of VAT, for each project for up to 12 months. We expect to fund up to 10 projects.
The total funding available for the competition can change. The funders have the right to:
The contract is completed at the end of the competition and the successful organisation is expected to pursue commercialisation of their solution.
Value Added Tax (VAT)
You must select whether you are VAT registered before entering your project costs.
VAT is the responsibility of the invoicing business. We will not provide any further advice and suggest you seek independent advice from HMRC.
VAT registered
If you select you are VAT registered, you must enter your project costs exclusive of VAT. As part of the application process VAT will be automatically calculated and added to your project cost total. Your total project costs inclusive of VAT must not exceed £1 million.
Not VAT registered
If you select you are not VAT registered, you must enter your project costs exclusive of VAT and no VAT will be added. You will not be able to increase total project costs to cover VAT later should you become VAT registered. Your total project costs must not exceed £1 million.
Research and development
Your application must have at least 50% of the contract value attributed directly and exclusively to R&D services, including solution exploration and design. R&D can also include prototyping and field-testing the product or service. This lets you incorporate the results of your exploration and design and demonstrate that you can produce in quantity to acceptable quality standards.
R&D does not include:
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