Collaborative Research and Development

Solutions for Business

Solutions for Business. Funded by Uk governmentSolutions for Business is a suite of highly targeted, publicly funded products and services offering solutions to real business needs and tackling market failure. Designed to drive qualifying businesses forward, it helps them to grow and succeed by providing help in a number of areas. These include starting up, understanding finance, developing people, environment and efficiency, exploiting ideas, international sales and marketing and growing your business. Solutions for Business helps you make the most of business opportunities and challenges. By targeting public money at real business needs, it helps businesses create sustainable success.

Collaborative Research and Development

Collaborative Research and Development provides grant support to
innovative, business-driven research and development (R&D) projects
in the East Midlands.

Grants are awarded to collaborative partnerships drawn from business,
Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and other research organisations for R&D of enabling technologies with real commercial potential.

The grants are for business-driven, pre-competitive R&D of enabling
technologies and large scale demonstrator projects of innovative
products, processes and technologies.

Which projects are eligible for grants?

Collaborative Research and Development grants are awarded to projects in four key sectors through industry-led innovation Networks (iNets) established by emda:

Business-driven technology projects in other sectors may also be eligible for Collaborative Research and Development grants awarded by emda.

What are the benefits?

By aligning with the needs of innovative companies, HEIs and other research organisations will undertake R&D which supports businesses to become more profitable.

Collaborative Research and Development also ensures businesses harness the region’s knowledge base so that more new products and services are brought to market sooner.

Businesses will also benefit from:

How to apply

Contact an iNet if your project falls within one of these key sectors:

Healthcare and bioscience
0115 912 4332
info@healthcare-inet.org.uk
www.eminnovation.org.uk/health

Food and drink
0845 521 2066
info@foodanddrink-inet.org.uk
www.eminnovation.org.uk/food

Sustainable construction
01604 892 836
Info@construction-inet.org.uk
www.eminnovation.org.uk/construction

Transport
01509 635 270
info@transport-inet.org.uk
www.eminnovation.org.uk/transport

Contact emda for more information about Collaborative Research and Development for projects in other sectors

East Midlands Development Agency
0115 988 8300

Collaborative Research and Development brochure [PDF, 300 KB]