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Innovate UK

Current ministers, official publications and departmental history, exactly as published.

§ Ministers

Recorded ministerial post holdings

0 recorded
No ministerial post holdings are recorded against this organisation's official GOV.UK URL yet.
§ Publications

Other official publications

17 recorded
notice · 2026-04-24
Countering Illegal Use of UAS Around Prisons and Sensitive Sites
Transparency release · 2025-07-23
Clean maritime demonstration competition winners
notice · 2023-11-22
Earth observation investment
notice · 2022-10-05
Immersive Technology Investment Accelerator phase 2 competition SME projects: investor partners
notice · 2020-06-08
Competition guidance for using digital technology to provide psychological support (SBRI competition)
notice · 2020-03-05
Competition guidance for EUREKA collaborative R&D: advanced materials, March 2020
notice · 2020-01-06
Competition guidance for SBRI rail demonstrations: first of a kind 2020
notice · 2019-11-20
Competition guidance for SBRI: innovation in railway platform end and edge technology
notice · 2019-11-20
Competition guidance for SBRI: innovation in automated survey processing for railway structure gauging, phase 1
notice · 2019-11-11
Competition guidance: UK-Israel open collaborative R&D competition 2019
correspondence · 2019-10-28
End of survey
notice · 2019-10-22
Competition guidance for driving the electric revolution: building regional centres of excellence
notice · 2019-10-16
Competition guidance for SBRI: modernising energy data access, phase 1
Government response · 2018-03-29
Category B driving licence derogation for alternatively fuelled commercial vehicles
Independent review · 2017-01-09
Low carbon truck and refuelling infrastructure trial: final report
government response · 2016-08-05
Innovate UK welcomes extension of funding for Newton Fund
Independent review · 2015-07-30
Low carbon truck trial: executive summary 2014
§ Timeline

Departmental lifecycle events

17 recorded
  1. 2026-04-24 · publication
    Countering Illegal Use of UAS Around Prisons and Sensitive Sites
    Seeking low-collateral solutions to counter hostile Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS), used for contraband delivery, surveillance near prisons and sensitive sites
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  2. 2025-07-23 · publication
    Clean maritime demonstration competition winners
    Research and development match-funding to support the design and development of clean maritime solutions towards commercialisation.
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  3. 2023-11-22 · publication
    Earth observation investment
    The government has announced up to £47 million to boost activity and innovation in the UK earth observation sector this financial year (2023 to 2024), building on the investment package of almost £200 million announced in 2022.
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  4. 2022-10-05 · publication
    Immersive Technology Investment Accelerator phase 2 competition SME projects: investor partners
    UK businesses doing R&D in immersive technology can apply for a share of up to £2 million grant funding alongside private equity investment. The grant funding is from the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund.
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  5. 2020-06-08 · publication
    Competition guidance for using digital technology to provide psychological support (SBRI competition)
    Organisations can apply for a share of up to £345,000 (including VAT) to develop new solutions using digital technology to provide psychological support.
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  6. 2020-03-05 · publication
    Competition guidance for EUREKA collaborative R&D: advanced materials, March 2020
    UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £1 million for advanced materials R&D projects partnering with EUREKA country organisations, including South Korea.
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  7. 2020-01-06 · publication
    Competition guidance for SBRI rail demonstrations: first of a kind 2020
    Businesses from the UK, EU or EEA can apply for a share of up to £9.4 million, including VAT, to develop demonstrators for sustainability, customer experience, operations or maintenance.
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  8. 2019-11-20 · publication
    Competition guidance for SBRI: innovation in automated survey processing for railway structure gauging, phase 1
    Businesses can apply for a share of £720,000, plus VAT, to develop a demonstrator for automated railway structure gauging processing.
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  9. 2019-11-20 · publication
    Competition guidance for SBRI: innovation in railway platform end and edge technology
    Opportunity for businesses to apply for a share of £1.08 million, plus VAT, to develop solutions to detect and deter trespass at railway platform ends and edges.
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  10. 2019-11-11 · publication
    Competition guidance: UK-Israel open collaborative R&D competition 2019
    UK businesses can apply for a share of up to £1.5 million to develop innovative technologies targeting global markets in partnership with Israeli companies.
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  11. 2019-10-28 · publication
    End of survey
    Thank you for taking the time to participate in our survey.
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  12. 2019-10-22 · publication
    Competition guidance for driving the electric revolution: building regional centres of excellence
    Up to £30 million is available to create regional centres of excellence for the development, prototyping and scale up of power electronics, machines and drives technologies. This funding is from the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund.
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  13. 2019-10-16 · publication
    Competition guidance for SBRI: modernising energy data access, phase 1
    In this first phase applicants can apply for a share of up to £480,000 for modernising energy data access. This is being funded by Innovate UK, as part of UK Research and Innovation, in collaboration with BEIS and Ofgem.
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  14. 2018-03-29 · government_response
    Category B driving licence derogation for alternatively fuelled commercial vehicles
    Changes to regulations to support the take-up of alternatively fuelled light commercial vehicles.
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  15. 2017-01-09 · publication
    Low carbon truck and refuelling infrastructure trial: final report
    The findings of the low carbon truck trial, including key data, issues identified and lessons learned.
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  16. 2016-08-05 · publication
    Innovate UK welcomes extension of funding for Newton Fund
    The UK's innovation experts welcome the news that the funding for international Newton Fund for innovation has been extended to 2021
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  17. 2015-07-30 · publication
    Low carbon truck trial: executive summary 2014
    Outlines the progress of low carbon truck trial projects in their second year and outlines issues identifies and lessons learnt.
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