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News Release from: Technology Strategy Board | Subject: GBP100M TSB funding
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 09 November 2007
GBP100M to be invested in innovation in
the UK
Businesses are invited to submit proposals for collaborative research and development in innovation and new technology, to obtain a share of the GBP100M Technology Strategy Board funding
Speaking at the Innovate07 conference in London, John Denham, the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, announced a new competition for proposals for collaborative research and development, representing a Government investment, through the Technology Strategy Board, of around GBP100 million The competition, which covers eight technology areas and which will be phased over 6 months, is designed to generate innovative proposals in which businesses work together and with research communities on research and technology projects to deliver successful new products and services
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 11 Dec 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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Proposals with potential applications across several business sectors, which build on links between academic and business research and which involve SMEs would be especially welcome.
The eight technology areas for which submissions are invited in Phase 1, opening 8 November 2007 are: Materials for Energy; High Value Manufacturing; Cell Therapy.
In Phase 2, opening 19 December 2007 the areas will be: Low Carbon Energy Technologies; Advanced Lighting, Lasers and Displays; Technologies for Health.
Phase 3, opening 30 January 2008 will cover: Gathering Data in Complex Environments; Creative Industries.
The Technology Strategy Board is a business-led executive non-departmental public body, established by the government.
Its mission is to promote and support research into, and development and exploitation of, technology and innovation for the benefit of UK business, in order to increase economic growth and improve the quality of life.
It is sponsored by the Department of Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS).
The Collaborative Research and Development Programme is investing directly in new and emerging technologies and has been designed to help businesses work with each other or with academic partners to develop technologies that will underpin products and services of the future.
Since 2004, the programme has supported over 700 projects across 40 technology areas with a combined business and government investment worth over GBP1 billion.
For further information please visit www.technologyprogramme.org.uk and www.dius.gov.uk.
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