UK-Singapore CRD 2026
Description
Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), will invest up to £3 million. This is subject to a sufficient number of high quality applications being received.
The aim of this competition is to fund business-led collaborative research and development (CR&D) projects focused on industrial research.
Your proposal must focus on one of the following sectors:
- Advanced Manufacturing
- Clean Energy
- Life Sciences
- Digital and Technologies, specifically the frontier technologies including: Semiconductors, Quantum, Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Advanced Connectivity Technologies and Engineering Biology
UK registered businesses must collaborate with at least one Singapore non-linked registered business applying under the equivalent Enterprise Singapore programme.
UK registered organisations must apply through the Innovation Funding Service (IFS) portal to Innovate UK.
Your Singapore partner will not receive any funding from Innovate UK.
Singapore partners must apply to and will be funded by Enterprise Singapore for the Singapore component of the project set out in this application.
In applying to this competition, you are entering into a competitive process. This competition has a funding limit, so we may not be able to fund all the proposed projects. It may be the case that your project scores highly but we are still unable to fund it.
Our experience from similar competitions suggests that you could have a 15% chance of success.
We consider a range of factors when determining whether to provide funding to applicants. This includes an assessment of prior conduct, such as any outstanding payments owed to Innovate UK or UKRI. Such factors may influence the funding decision, potentially resulting in a refusal of funding or an award subject to additional scrutiny.
We also reserve the right to adjust funding allocations for any of our competitions. This may be in response to changes in policy, portfolio funding considerations or broader government funding decisions.
This competition closes at 11am UK time on the deadline stated in this Innovate UK competition brief. We cannot guarantee other government or third party sites will always show the correct competition information.
The project must be independently selected by both Innovate UK and Enterprise Singapore to be awarded funding.