Events and opportunities
We're creating new ways to connect, collaborate and access the support you need to innovate.
funding
Unit M & IBIC
IBIC Cluster / Network Building Scheme
Funding between £500 and £5,000 to cover a variety of network activities including workshops, sandpits, project and skills training to fill gaps, scoping exercises, showcases, demonstrations, knowledge exchange and public engagement
Unit M & IBIC
IBIC Secondment Exchange Scheme
Funding of up to £60,000 to support secondments between university partners and businesses, focussing on developing specific commercial industrial biotechnology research outputs whilst extending the culture and skills for business engagement at university partners.
Unit & IBIC
IBIC Proof of Concept Scheme
Funding of up to £30,000 to support early evaluation prototypes or demonstrators, initial trials or scoping exercises.
Unit M & IBIC
IBIC Relationship Development Scheme
Seed funding of up to £10,000 to help build relationships between industry and academics, and supporting market discovery.
Unit M & IBIC
IBIC Commercial Development Fund
Commercial development grants of up to £50,000 for researchers to support essential market and competitive landscaping, technology evaluation and external engagement to drive start-up, spin-out and licensing opportunities.
Translation Manchester, UKRI, MRC & UAA
Translation Manchester — Confidence 4 Translation
Fund of up to £75,000 to allow researchers to unlock translational bottlenecks.
Innovation Factory
UKRI IAA Commercial Development Fund
Fund of up to £50,000 to support the development of the evidence base required to drive spin-out and licensing opportunities.
Business Engagement Team
UKRI Harmonised Impact Acceleration Account (IAA)
Grants of up to £60,000 to support research and innovation in developing wider impacts from research.
Unit M
Ideas with Impact
Competition to win £20,000, £50,000 or £100,000 for ideas which help solve the world's biggest issues.
Masood Entrepreneurship Centre
Eli and Britt Harari Graphene Award
Competition to win £20,000 and £50,000 to help establish new companies involving graphene or other 2D materials.
Masood Entrepreneurship Centre
Venture Further Awards
Competition to win £15,000 - £100,000 to showcase the latest ventures.
Masood Entrepreneurship Centre
Kickstarter Award
Grants of up to £2,000 to explore and test new ideas in the market.
Henry Royce Institute & Innovate UK
Royce Proof of Market
Competition for up to £10,000 to bridge the gap between research and commercialisation by enabling researchers to assess market viability and develop robust commercialisation insights.
Henry Royce Institute
Analysis 4 Innovators (A4I)
Competition for £15,000 - £100,000 for small collaborative innovation projects working with Innovate UK's A4I partners to solve existing analysis and measurement problems related to products, services and processes owned or used by the company.
Henry Royce Institute
Metamaterials Industrial Collaboration Programme
Grant funding from £50,000 - £130,000 for research, development and innovation sprints for metamaterials.
Henry Royce Institute
Industrial Collaboration Programme
Grant funding from £50,000 - £130,000 for R&D and innovation sprint projects that address national materials challenges.
Henry Royce Institute
Researcher & Student Equipment Access Scheme
Funding for access to equipment
programmes
Health Innovation Manchester
Health Innovation Accelerator — DEVOTE
Prohramme focussing on Development and Validation of Technology for Time Critical Genomic Testing, brings together academia, industry and clincal partners to deliver enhanced genomic diagnostics
Health Innovation Manchester Innovate UK GM Innovation Accelerator
Health Innovation Accelerator — Advanced Diagnostics Accelerator (ADA)
Accelerator which brings together academia and industry to focus on GM's major morbities with advanced diagnostics, digital and data.
AccelerateME
AccelerateME
A 12 week accelerator progamme to give students everything they need to get their start-up off the ground
TIC
Incubator
A six month programme to support dounders through the early months of a new venture, focussed on founders and pre-seed deeptech startups
TIC ConceptionX
Venture Programme
Helping PhD students translate ideas into deeptech startups
MEC
Venture Builder
A 12 week programme helping to test, refine and build to get closer to market ready
MEC
Get Pitching
A programme to allow businesses to master the art of pitching, elevate ideas and delivery
GEIC
Bridging the Gap
A programme to allow SMEs to allow them to overcome challenges and apply graphene and other advanced 2D materials in a range of applications and markets