Powerpoint slide presentation from "Connected digital additive manufacturing" competition briefing in London on 7 June 2016. Including: - Introduction to Innovate UK - Description of competition scope - Description of application process

1. Connected digital additive
manufacturing
Competition Briefing
07th June 16

2. Health & Safety

3. Welcome & Introductions
• Barry Shaw – Competitions Manager, Innovate UK
• Sarah Vodden – Head of Pre Award, Innovate UK
• Robin Wilson – Lead technologist - High Value Manufacturing, Innovate UK

4. Morning Agenda
• Introductions
• Innovate UK
• Competition scope / Background
• Q&A (Scope)
• Application criteria
Break
• Funding
• Your project costs
• Submitting your application using the Innovation Funding Service
• Q&A (Process)

5. Afternoon Agenda
12:30 Introduction to the KTN
12:45 Question and Answer Session
13:00 Lunch and Networking/Partnering opportunities
14:00 Setting the Scene for Industry 4, 4 x Extended pitches of case studies
relating to Industry 4.0
14:30 Industry 4.0 - Q and A session, led by Robin Wilson
14:45 Project need/offer pitches
15:15 Partnering opportunities
16:00 Wrap up and close

6. By the end of the briefing you should..
• Understand the scope and objectives of the competition
• Understand the competition process and criteria
• Understand the application requirements
• Be clear on the timelines & deadlines
All presentations will be available on the competition webpage

7. The UK’s
Innovation Agency

9. The UK’s innovation agency
We know that true innovation disrupts. It will create new products, services and
industries that we don’t even know about yet.
It’s our vision to help the UK economy grow head and shoulders above other nations
by inspiring and supporting pioneering UK businesses to create the industries of the
future.
We already have a strong track record of driving growth, by working with companies
to de-risk, enable and support innovation.

11. A new phase
• The start of a new Spending Review period, 2016-20
• The government plans to publish a National Innovation
Plan in 2016.
• Part of this will be Innovate UK’s new strategy,
describing our aims over the next four years.
• Meanwhile our Delivery Plan explains what we are
doing in the first year of this new phase – the financial
year 2016/17.

12. “Whether you have a small or
large business or are involved in
any way in innovation, this plan
will explain how we are working
this year to accelerate its pace -
and ultimately increase UK
productivity and growth.”
Ruth McKernan, Chief Executive

13. Important changes
We are:
• aligning our programmes into new simpler sector groups
• changing our sector funding competitions to be simpler and broader in
scope
• enhancing our innovation networks - nationally and regionally
• piloting competitions for new innovation finance products
• Introducing a new online competition applications system –
the Innovation Funding Service.

14. 5-point plan
Working with the research community and across Government to
turn scientific excellence into economic impact
Accelerating UK economic growth, nurturing small, high-
growth companies with strong productivity and export success
Building on innovation excellence throughout the UK,
investing locally in areas of strength
Developing Catapults within a national innovation network
Evolving our funding models; helping public funding go further

15. Sector focus to accelerate growth
Emerging and Enabling Technologies
Identifying and investing in technologies and capabilities that
will lead to the new products, processes and services of
tomorrow
Health and Life Sciences
Focused on agriculture and food and healthcare, underpinned
by bioscience and medical research and enabled by engineering
and physical sciences
Infrastructure Systems
Optimising transport and energy systems and integrating them
with other systems such as health and digital
Manufacturing and Materials
Advancing manufacturing readiness so R&D and technology
developments increase productivity and capture value in the UK

16. New simplified Innovate UK competitions
Expected open date
Manufacturing and Materials 9 May 2016
Open 6 Jun 2016
Infrastructure Systems 4 Jul 2016
Health and Life Sciences 12 Sep 2016
Emerging and Enabling Technologies 3 Oct 2016
We will also run competitions in partnership with other organisations.
For all competitions see the Delivery Plan or www.innovateuk.gov.uk

17. Connecting: strengthening our networks
• We help businesses grow by connecting: linking them with academics,
government, new partners and funding opportunities.
• We provide direct guidance and help business navigate all the support
opportunities that exist.
• This year we will build support through the Knowledge Transfer
Network (KTN) and Enterprise Europe Network (EEN), helping
innovative businesses nationally and regionally.

18. Our budget
Official Sensitive

19. The Innovation Funding Service:
Welcome to “Private Beta”

20. Find out more
www.innovateuk.gov.uk

21. Competition briefing:
Connected Digital Additive Manufacturing
7 June 2016
Robin Wilson
Lead Technologist

22. COMPETITION AIMS AND SCOPE
What this competition is about
£4.5 million funding for Connected
Digital Additive Manufacturing –
opened 23 May 2016

23. Competition aims
1. To stimulate and broaden innovation in additive
manufacturing equipment and processes
2. To enable companies to explore new sources of
value and competitive advantage, within and
beyond the immediate AM process chain, by
harnessing the power of connected digital
manufacturing

24. Competition scope – the ‘must haves’
• Projects must have a significant innovation step in
both of the following complementary areas:
– additive manufacturing
– connected digital manufacturing
• Scope of the Additive Manufacturing area is defined
by 4 topics – you need to address 1 or more of these
• Scope of the Connected Digital Manufacturing area is
defined by 5 capabilities – you need to address 1 or
more of these

25. Competition scope – the ‘must haves’
1) Additive manufacturing topics in scope
1. novel additive manufacturing build process with a viable route to market
for UK-based machine platform manufacture
2. large-scale build platforms with a build size in metres with a viable route to
market for UK-based machine platform manufacture
3. automation, predictability and cost reduction in the pre and post-process
material supply and finishing activities. Projects must show a significant
improvement to the overall AM process chain productivity
4. innovative hybrid or interrupted AM processes and/or their integration
with the adjacent process(es)
Your project must focus on one or more of these 4 priority topics.

26. Scope clarification
– more detail on key points
• Viable route to market for UK-based platform manufacturer
– “platform” includes AM build machines and pre/post processing machines and
associated equipment/hardware.
– “platform” also includes System Integrators, ie: companies providing an integrated
suite of equipment and/or services to the end user. If this has to include some non-UK
sourced equipment, we will consider the application, if all the project innovation
activity is done in the UK. Please send outline of such proposals to our Helpdesk
before 13 July so we can advise on scope fit.
• Automation, predictability and cost reduction in the pre and post-process
material supply and finishing activities.
– this describes the physical/hardware/material activities, pre and post AM build.
– includes material characterisation and handling, but project must be focused on
innovating actual (physical) production and supply/distribution capability.
• Development of new materials is out of scope, but if a small amount of material
development is required to support the main innovation in equipment and
processes, it can be included.

27. Competition scope – background
Why connected digital?
When is the 4th Industrial Revolution happening?
What are the benefits of Industry 4.0 ?

28. Competition scope – background
Why connected digital?
• AM equipment market is rapidly growing (42% cgr) but build platforms and
pre/post processing facilities are still configured for prototype or job-shop
operations, not series production.
• This may be OK for today, but will not be in 5-10 years’ time.
• The journey from “specialist prototyping facilities” to the required “integrated
production system architectures” is unclear.
• The system architectures for maximising the business potential of AM are
unlikely to look like mass production factories, today or tomorrow.
• Innovative sources of value capture and competitive advantage beyond the
immediate build platform/ build expertise need to be discovered and exploited.
Our response
Through the structure of this competition and focused networking activities
between additive and digital communities, Innovate UK and the KTN are seeking to
help companies and academia to explore and exploit this journey.

29. Competition scope – background
When is the 4th Industrial Revolution happening?
NOW !
IMAGE COURTESY OF MTC

30. Competition scope – background
What are the benefits of Industry 4.0 ?
• simple, effective and powerful brand name
• an agenda for change, for competitive advantage
• helps anchor expertise and production capacity
• people say it’s all about getting more value from data
• forum to help people explore what it means to them
For the purpose of this competition, we have called it
“Connected Digital Manufacturing” and defined its scope
by 5 dimensions or capability statements

31. Competition scope – the ‘must haves’
2) Connected digital capabilities in scope
1. interoperability: ability of internet-enabled machines, devices, sensors and
people to connect and share data with each other securely (and seamlessly)
without the need for specialist technical expertise on the part of the user
2. enriched modelling - integration of raw, operational data from sensors into
elements of models and simulations to improve the accuracy and completeness
of their predictions and to aid visualisation and decision-making
3. autonomy: ability of machines and systems to make decisions and perform tasks
with limited human assistance/intervention and to learn from experience and
data
4. real-time insights: capability to collect and analyse data from manufacturing
operations and provide the derived insights to support decision-making in real or
near-to-real time
5. modularity: engineering of flexible and modular systems, components and
services that can be adapted, added, removed and interplayed to meet changing
requirements
Your project must innovate in at least one of these 5 connected digital manufacturing capabilities.

32. • Technology can enable innovation, but the success of
any product, service or process innovation ultimately
depends on human motivations and behaviour.
• Customers don’t buy technology, they buy what
technology does for them.
• Use early-stage design process to better understand
and respond to customer wants and needs.
• Well designed solutions are not only feasible, but
also desirable, beneficial and easy to use.
Design – Better experiences, not just styling

33. • We are keen to support projects that demonstrate
excellent, early-stage design process.
• A strong application should reference the actions you
will undertake to gain customer insight and convert
that insight into better experiences.
• You may wish to budget for subcontracting of design
activities within your project as an allowable cost.
• Find out more and connect with designers via the
KTN, Design Council, Service Design Network, BIDA.
Design – Better experiences, not just styling

34. Standards
• We know that development of Standards is critical for successful
commercialisation.
• Standards can include Design, Materials, Production Processes, Product
Function, Data and Data Exchange, System Interoperability, etc
• Innovate UK is unable to fund standards development activity as such.
• However, we can fund work which leads to the development of standards, if
that work is closely associated with the main, funded innovation activity
• In this competition we encourage consortia to include work leading to the
development of standards, provided it is closely associated with the innovation
activity, either around the additive manufacturing or the digital elements or
both. Such activity should be limited to no more than 10% of total project cost.

35. Competition scope – the ‘should not haves’
• In this competition, we won’t fund
– incremental innovation or development of existing (commercially
available) machine platforms.
– development of products made on standard, commercially-available AM
machine platforms using existing or new materials
– atomic layer deposition
– bio-printing
– rapid prototyping and tooling machine platforms and related
applications (ie: machine platforms which are only suitable for prototyping and
tooling applications)
– connected digital manufacturing activity that’s unrelated to the AM
innovation project content

36. Funding allocations
• We have allocated up to £4.5 million to fund industrial research projects in
this single stage competition. You could get funding of up to:
– 70% of your eligible project costs if you are a small or micro business
– 60% of your eligible project costs if you are a medium sized business
– 50% of your eligible project costs if you are a larger business
• Projects must be led by a UK-based business and involve at least one other
company, this is to encourage supply chain development and SME
participation.
• We expect projects to last 1 to 3 years. They must range in size from total
costs of £500,000 to £1.5 million.
• We also encourage academic organisations to take part where needed.
But you can allocate no more than 30% of your total project costs for
research organisation funding.
• You must allocate at least 70% of your total project costs to the additive
manufacturing topics. You must allocate between 15% and 30% to the
connected digital manufacturing capabilities.

37. New: Innovation Funding System (IFS)
• This Connected Digital Additive Manufacturing competition is the “private beta
test” for IFS.
• Applicants will use the on-line application system, details to follow later this
morning, highlights include:
– Lead applicant completes on-line application form
– Menu-driven approach eg: Companies House look-up data
– Same 10 questions used as in previous years (may change in future)
– Lead applicant invites partners via IFS system
– Partners complete their sections of the application
– IFS calculates project costs from your input data
– IFS saves as you go, only press “submit” once, at end when fully completed
• If you have difficulty using IFS please get in touch with the competition Helpdesk
straight away, this will enable us to address any user or system issues as quickly
as possible.

38. And finally …
• Competition briefing events:
– London 7 June
– Liverpool 14 June
• Registration by 20 July, submit by 27 July, noon.
• Competition Support Helpline
– Please direct all enquiries through our helpline process (phone or
email) – details on Gov.UK
– The support team in Swindon were briefed on this competition
recently
• Any answers we give to questions you ask us today should be
regarded as indicative only (ie: please use Helpdesk route).

39. Find out more
www.innovateuk.gov.uk
Details of this competition are at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/funding-
competition-connected-digital-additive-manufacturing

41. Questions & Answers

42. Application Process

43. FUN IND EXP
Market readiness
Research
Councils
Commercial Investment
Venture Capital
Innovate UK and its co-funders funding
Blue sky
Feasibility
Technology Demo
System Dev.
System Qual.
Technology Development
Prod. Prototype
Commercialisation
Types of project

44. Competition eligibility
Type of Competition & Research
Category
Single Stage,
Industrial Research
Project composition
Collaborative – must
include at least 2
businesses
Funding available Up to £4.5m
Project Size Between £500k and £1.5m
Approx % Funding for business
70% Small / 60% Medium /
50% Large
Anticipated Project length Between 1 – 3 Years
Application form 10 marked questions
Notifications
Assessment and moderation panel
Submit your application

45. Key Dates
Time line Dates
Competition Opens 23rd May 2016
Briefing Event 7th June 2016
Registration Closes Noon 20th July 2016
Submission Deadline Noon 27th July 2016
Decision to applicants October 2016

46. Competition Page

47. Application Form

48. Application
Structure

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Application details

50. 50
Project Summary
This is an opportunity to provide a short summary of
the key objectives and focus areas of the project. It is
important that this summary is presented in reference
to the main outline of the project, with sufficient
information to provide a clear understanding of the
overall vision of the project and its innovative nature.
This summary is not marked, but provides a summary
of your proposal for the benefit of the Assessors.

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Public Description
If your application is successful, Innovate UK will
publish the following brief description of your
proposal. Do not include any commercially
confidential information, for example Intellectual
Property or patent details, in this summary.
Whilst this section is not assessed, provision of this
public description is mandatory. Funding will not be
provided to successful projects without this.

52. This part of the application is marked Yes or No
Gateway Question: Scope
How well does the project fit the competition?

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The application questions
Each question is equally weighted with 10 marks per question

54. Q1: Business Opportunity
What is the business opportunity that your project
addresses?
You should describe:
• the business opportunity you have identified and how you plan to take
advantage of it
• the customer needs you have identified and how your project will meet
them
• the challenges you expect to face and how you will overcome them

55. Q2. Potential market
What is the size of your potential market?
Describe the size of the potential market for your project, including:
• details of your target market, for instance, how competitive and profitable
it is
• the current size of the market, with actual and predicted growth rates
• the market share you expect to achieve and the reasons for this estimate
• the wider economic value you expect your project to add to the UK and/or
the EEA (European Economic Area)
• Tell us what return on investment you expect your project to achieve. You
should base this estimate on relevant industry data and tell us how you
have calculated this.

56. Q3: Project exploitation
How will you exploit and market your project?
• Describe the potential outputs of the project, such as:
– products or services
– processes
– applications
• Describe how you will exploit these outputs, such as:
– the route to market
– protection of intellectual property rights
– reconfiguration of your organisation's value system
– changes to business models and processes
– any other methods of exploitation and protection

57. Q4 What economic, social and environmental
benefits do you expect your project to deliver and
when?
Describe all the benefits you expect your project to deliver including:
• Economic
• Social
• Environmental

58. Q5: Economic benefit: What technical approach will
you use and how will you manage your project?
• describe your technical approach including the main objectives of the work
• explain how and why your approach is appropriate
• how you will make sure that the innovative steps in your project are
achievable ?
• describe rival technologies and alternative R&D strategies
• explain why your proposed approach will offer a better outcome
APPENDIX
You may also upload a project plan (in PDF format) with your answer to this
question. This will show the assessors how you plan to run the project.

59. Q6: Innovation: What is innovative about your
project?
You should show how your project will:
• push boundaries beyond current leading-edge science and technology
• apply existing technologies in new areas
• Explain the novelty of the research in an industrial and/or academic
context.
• Provide evidence that your proposed work is innovative. This could
include patent search results, competitor analyses or literature
surveys. If relevant, you should also outline your own intellectual
property rights.
APPENDIX
You may upload a pdf file in support of your answer to this question

60. Q7: Risks: What are the risks (technical, commercial
and environmental) to your project's success? What
is your risk management strategy?
• identify the project's main risks and uncertainties
• detail specific technical, commercial, managerial and environmental risks
• list any other uncertainties such as ethical issues associated with the
project
• provide a detailed risk analysis
• rate the main risks as high, medium or low
• show how you'll limit the main risks
• identify the project management resources you'll use to minimise
operational risk
• include arrangements for managing the project team and its partners

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Q8. Project Team: Does your project team have the
skills, experience and facilities to deliver this
project?
You should show your project team:
• has the right mix of skills and experience to complete the project
• has clear objectives
• would have been formed even without Innovate UK investment
Describe the benefits of the collaboration.
APPENDIX
You may upload a pdf file in support of your answer to this question

62. Q9: Funding: How much will your project cost?
• show how your budget is realistic for the scale and complexity of the
project
• make sure the funding you need from Innovate UK is within the limit set
by this competition
• justify any significant costs in the project, such as subcontractors
• show how much funding there will be from other sources
• provide a realistic budget breakdown
• describe and justify individual work packages

63. 10: Adding Value: How does financial support from
Innovate UK and its funding partners add value?
• will the Innovate UK investment increase the amount of Research and
Development undertaken in the UK?
• have you explained and justified why you are not fully funding the project
yourselves?
• have you explained how the project would be undertaken differently with
Innovate UK investment?
• what are the implications of the Innovate UK funding? What does it mean
to the project, idea and exploitation?

64. All applications are assessed by independent
reviewers drawn from industry and academia
Application Assessment
What do they look for?
• Clear and concise answers
• The right amount of information
• not too much detail
• no assumptions
• Quantification and justification
• That the applicant has the right people with the right bright idea and
the means to exploit its potential

65. Submission Summary
Type of Competition Single Stage
Project Composition Collaborative
Project Size (indicative) Between £500k - £1.5m
Anticipated Project length 1 – 3 years
Application form 10 marked questions
Appendices Yes
J-eS output document (if applicable) Yes

66. Funding

67. Funding rules
- Types of organisation
• Business
• Research Organisations
• Public Sector Organisations & Charities
- Collaborative projects
• Definition of collaboration
• Levels of participation
• Minimum grant

68. Types of Organisation
• Business – Small/Micro, Medium or Large (EU definition)
• Research Organisation (RO):
- Universities (HEIs)
- Non profit distributing Research & Technology Organisation (RTO)
- Public Sector Research Establishments (PSRE)
- Research Council Institutes (RCI)
- Catapults
• Public sector organisations and charities doing research activity

69. Grant dependent upon type of research and type of participant
Organisation /
Type of Activity
Industrial Research Notes
Business
(economic activity)
Micro/Small – 70%
Medium – 60%
Large – 50%
Research Organisation
(non-economic
activity)
Universities – 100%
(80% of Full Economic
Costs)
Other research
organisations can claim
100% of their project
costs – see note:
Other research organisations must:
• be non-profit distributing and
• disseminate the project results &
• explain in the application form how this will be done
Public Sector
Organisation or
Charity
(non-economic
activity)
100% of eligible costs Must be:
• Be performing research activity &
• disseminate project results & explain in the application
form how this will be done
• ensure that the eligible costs do not include work / costs
already funded from other public sector bodies

70. Levels of participation
• The aim of our State Aid scheme is to:
- optimise the level of funding to business and
- recognise the importance of research base to project
• At least 70% of total eligible project costs must be incurred by business
• The maximum level (30% of project costs) is shared by all research
organisations in the project

71. What is collaboration?
In this competition projects must contain:
• at least two business collaborators
• a business-led consortium, which may involve both business and the
research base and
• evidence of effective collaboration (see guidance)
- we would expect to see the structure and rationale of the collaboration
described in the application.

72. Minimum Grant
If partner wishes to collaborate but does not wish to claim a grant:
• role and work should be in application as for all other partners
• partner name and total costs (contribution to the project) must be
included in the finance summary table.
- Enter zero grant requested in finance summary table
• no partner finance form required
• not named in the offer letter if your project is successful

73. Worked example – £500k total cost project:
Project costs for 5 partners (2 SME, 1 University, a Catapult and 1 large), doing
industrial research.
Total Funding Limits
Total Eligible
Project Costs
Maximum % of
eligible costs
which may be
claimed as a grant
Innovate UK
Grant
Project
Contribution
Business Medium £130,000 60% £78,000 £52,000
Business Medium £90,000 60% £54,000 £36,000
Business Large £130,000 50% £65,000 £65,000
University HEI (80% FEC) £75,000 100% £75,000 nil**
Catapult RTO £75,000 100% £75,000 nil
Total £500,000 £347,000 £153,000
** 20% FEC not to be shown as a contribution
Research Base Costs £150,000
Research base % of Total Eligible costs (cannot exceed 30%) 30.00%

74. Project Costs
• Business & non-academic partners
– Eligible Project Costs
• Academics
– Je-S

75. Eligible Project Costs
(applicants / non-academic partners)
 Labour Costs
 Administration Support Costs
 Materials
 Capital Equipment Usage
 Sub-Contracts
 Travel & Subsistence
 Other Costs
- non-admin overheads that are directly incurred as a result of the project
- Other eligible direct costs not included in the above headings
 IP filing costs up to £7,500 (SME only)

76. Your Project Costs

77. Labour Costs
Eligible:
-Staff working
directly on project.
-Paid by PAYE
-NI, pension, non-
discretionary costs.
Ineligible:
-Dividends
-Bonuses
-Non productive
time

78. Administration Support Costs
• Enter other eligible overheads into
“Other Costs”
• All overheads must be verified as
being incurred as a result of
delivering the project

79. Ineligible overheads
Eligible overheads must be verified as being incurred as a result of
delivering the project.
x Indirect production of or service delivery costs – any costs associated
with the way in which the company makes its money. This would include
all items used to calculate gross margin and cost of sale.
x Indirect staff costs - non productive time or non-chargeable time of
technical or support personnel
x New IP protection costs (from other projects)
x Any headings that are being charged for directly within the project –
such as training, T&S

80. Material Costs

81. Capital Equipment usage
Eligible:
-Used in the project or
shared with day-to-day
production
-Re sale value

82. Sub-Contract costs
Eligible:
-Justified and
quantified

83. Travel & Subsistence Costs
Eligible:
Directly linked to the
project

84. Other Costs
Costs that could not be added under
previous headings.
Do not double count

85. Costs which are not eligible
Χ Recoverable input or output VAT
Χ Interest charges, bad debts, profits, advertising, entertainment
Χ Hire purchase interest and associated service charges
Χ Profit earned by a subsidiary or by an associate undertaking work sub-
contracted out under the project
Χ Inflation and contingency allowances
Χ The value of existing assets such as IPR, data, software and other
exploitable assets that are contributed to the project by any collaborator
Χ Independent Accountant’s Report Fees

86. Project Costs
• Business & non-academic partners
– Eligible Project Costs
• Academics
– Je-S

87. Academic costs
Input the TSB reference and
academic finance resources into the
table

88. Academic costs
Upload the Je-s form as
a .pdf document

89. Normal Je-S Application Elements
Not just the financials
- E.g. Justification of resources
- E.g Pathways to impact
• Full details on the Je-S system
• Queries about Je-S via the Je-S Helpdesk
- JeSHelp@rcuk.ac.uk
- 01793 44 4164

90. 90
Finances Summary

91. Levels of participation

92. Submission Summary
Feasibility Studies
Type of Competition Single Stage
Project Composition Collaborative
Project Size (indicative) Between £500k - £1.5m
Anticipated Project length 1 – 3 years
Application form 10 marked questions
Appendices Yes
J-eS output document (if applicable) Yes

93. Key Dates
Time line Dates
Competition Opens 23rd May 2016
Briefing Event 7th June 2016
Registration Closes Noon 20th July 2016
Submission Deadline Noon 27th July 2016
Decision to applicants October 2016

94. Innovation Funding Service
Demo

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Innovate UK Successful Applicant
The Project may not start until the organisation has received and returned
signed acceptance of the Grant Confirmation Letter
Conditional offer
letters will be
issued 3 – 4 weeks
after notification
Return documents
stated in
conditional offer
letter
Submit financial
forecast and
detailed project
plan
Financial cost
review and viability
checks
Issue Grant
Confirmation Letter
Sign & return Grant
Confirmation Letter
with project start
date
Existing process: successful projects

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New process with IFS: Project Setup

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Project set-up

98. Tips
• This is a beta version. Please be patient if not everything works first time!
– Our Customer support desk are waiting to help you
• Your collaboration partners must enter their own project costs
• There is no conditional offer letter for your grant. You are agreeing to
Innovate UK’s conditions of the grant when submitting your application.
The lead partner signs the final Grant Offer Letter at the end of the project
set up process.
• Don’t leave your submission to the last minute. The service performs
validation checks on all of your inputs before you can submit.
• Let us know how you get on! We appreciate your feedback

99. Questions & Answers

100. Competitions Helpdesk
Tel: 0300 321 4357 (Monday-Friday, 9am-5:30pm)
E-mail: support@innovateuk.gov.uk