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Innovation Loans Future Economy Competition: Round 7

UK registered businesses can apply for loans for innovative projects with strong commercial potential to significantly improve the UK economy.

Competition opens: Thursday 10 November 2022

Competition closes: Wednesday 11 January 2023 11:00am

Innovate UK is offering up to £25 million in loans to micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Loans are for highly innovative late-stage research and development (R&D) projects with the best potential for the future. There should be a clear route to commercialisation and economic impact.

Your project must lead to new products, processes or services that are significantly ahead of others currently available or propose an innovative use of existing products, processes or services. It can also involve a new or innovative business model.

Innovate UK are particularly interested in projects that focus on the future economy areas included in the Innovate UK plan for action.

You must be able to show that you:

  • Need public funding
  • Can cover interest payments
  • Will be able to repay the loan on time

You can apply for a loan of between £100,000 and £2 million to fund your project's eligible costs.

For further information visit: Competition overview - Innovation Loans Future Economy Competition: Round 7 - Innovation Funding Service (apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk).

About the Author

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Paul Newbold

Partner
After qualifying with KPMG where he gained significant audit experience, Paul joined Torgersens in 1991 and became the firm’s audit partner in 2000. Paul employs his broad range of financial skills to provide commercial and accounting advice to a range of owner-managed businesses in the independent retail, education and professional services sectors. He also has extensive experience dealing with charities, Registered Social Landlords and not-for-profit organisations and co-operatives.   Outside of work, Paul likes to visit Eastern France and South-West German and read novels by David Morrell, Michael Blake and Harper Lee. He also likes watching films, his favourite is The Shawshank Redemption.

To get in touch please e-mail paul.newbold@torgersens.com.

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