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Innovation Funding

UCL Innovation & Enterprise work with all academic disciplines to promote knowledge exchange and help engagement with the wider world. Find out what funding is available.

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  • My knowledge exchange funding applications

    See your applications that in progress and those that have been submitted

  • Apply for Early Stage Commercialisation/Proof of Concept funding

    Pre-Commercialisation HEIF funding is for knowledge exchange that supports and develops a broad range of interactions between universities and the wider world, bringing economic and social benefit to the UK.

  • Apply for General Knowledge Exchange and Innovation Fund

    Find out about IAA (Impact Acceleration Account) funding from the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Knowledge Exchange and Innovation Fund. EPSRC, STFC IAA funding is available and
    HEIF funding is for knowledge exchange that supports and develops a broad range of interactions between universities and the wider world, bringing economic and social benefit to the UK.

  • Apply for EPSRC IAA Discovery-to-use funding

    Find out about UCL’s EPSRC IAA (Impact Acceleration Accounts) 'discovery-to-use' funding for engineering and the physical sciences, and how to apply for it.

  • Apply for EPSRC IAA: Secondments funding

    Find out about the EPSRC IAA (Impact Acceleration Accounts) funding for secondments and how to apply for it.

  • Apply for Innovation Networks funding

    Innovation networks are a way to engage with multiple external stakeholders, nurture partnerships and form an interdisciplinary ecosystem.
    They usually focus on a particular technological market segment or problem-oriented topic and can involve a broad range of knowledge exchange activities.

  • Apply for BBSRC IAA Early Stage Commercialisation funding

    Early Stage Commercialisation funding is for knowledge exchange that supports and develops a broad range of interactions between universities and the wider world, bringing economic and social benefit to the UK.