Innovate UK (The Technology Strategy Board) is the UK’s innovation agency. Our goal: to accelerate economic growth by stimulating and supporting business-led innovation.

Innovate UK helps business to innovate faster and more effectively than would otherwise be possible. Bringing together business, research and the public sector, we support and accelerate the development of innovative products and services to meet market needs, tackle major societal challenges and help build the economy of tomorrow.

Innovate UK offers innovation support, through a variety of competitions and programmes, for companies of all sizes. These include Smart grants for prototype or proof of concept work; Knowledge Transfer Partnerships enabling businesses to work with universities on innovation projects; SBRI, which is a pathway to developing innovative products and services for the public sector, and other competitions for funding to enable small and large businesses to work together on collaborative research and development projects. We also offer a range of dynamic Knowledge Transfer Networks where business can find advice, information and collaborators.

In everything it does, Innovate UK seeks to help move ideas for innovative products and services more rapidly towards commercialisation.