Grow your idea

Update | June 2021: UKRI Research England funding ended in June 2021. Whilst we no longer provide opportunities to progress technologies through Grow MedTech, we are still committed to delivering learning and developing opportunities through Translate until the end of the year.

If you are an academic, industry representative or healthcare professional looking for innovation funding, we recommend using the Yorkshire and Humber Academic Health Science Network website to view the latest opportunities.

Grow MedTech provided a technology innovation manager based at each of our partner universities, which provided academics with in-house support and resources to innovate, helping them to develop, validate and commercialise new medical technologies.

Only academics from our partner universities were able to apply for one of our grants, although academic and industrial collaborators, from the UK or overseas, have often been members of the project teams. Some of our funding has been earmarked for projects that involve an industry partner, where the ideas are commercially inspired.

Collaborate for success

Most successful applicants have been part of a wider collaboration. Our aim has been to help academics engage more effectively with companies, clinicians and patients and to understand their needs, enabling them to develop stronger funding proposals through these collaborations and ensure impact from their research.

Funding

We have provided funding to support technologies at three stages of the innovation process. This ensured we supported technologies through from initial concepts at Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 2 and 3 through proof of commercial concept and beyond at TRL 5+, and helped them to leverage additional funding from other sources.

Funding is no longer available but detail on the opportunities that were available during the funded phase of Grow MedTech can be explored below.

If you are an academic, industry representative or healthcare professional looking for innovation funding, we recommend using the Yorkshire and Humber Academic Health Science Network website to view the latest opportunities.

 

 

Grow MedTech is accelerating and enhancing innovative medical technologies with significant commercial potential.

We offer:

  • Up to £5k proof of market to define market opportunity and clinical need
  • Up to £20k proof of feasibility to prove initial technical or commercial feasibility
  • Up to £80k proof of concept to prove complete technical or commercial concept

This funding is available to our partner universities. As well as companies interested in the potential of medtech through their academic expertise to develop and de-risk new technologies.

Successful applications will be supported by a Grow MedTech Innovation Manager providing advice and assistance to take your technology to market.

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