Innovate UK Analysis for Innovators enables innovation and improves productivity and competitiveness for UK businesses.
UK businesses can apply to access cutting-edge R&D expertise and work with world-leading scientists and research facilities, to solve technical analysis or measurement problems that are holding back innovation.
The programme is led by Innovate UK, in partnership with NPL and other laboratories. This popular funding programme is launching its fourteenth round and has so far funded more than 500 projects.
Round 14 is now closed.
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Analysis for Innovators is an investment from Innovate UK and NPL to fund small collaborative innovation projects with the Analysis for Innovators partners:
Together, the funding partners run some of the most advanced facilities, techniques and technologies available in the world. Analysis for Innovators matches the best UK scientists and facilities with companies that have analysis or measurement problems.
The Analysis for Innovators programme differs from other funding competitions, targeting competitiveness and productivity head on it offers cutting edge R&D, expertise and facilities to UK companies that want to solve an analysis or measurement problem from within their existing business.
You must be a UK registered company with any type of measurement or analysis problem to apply. The programme is expected to appeal to manufacturing companies, especially those involved in complex supply chains, but companies applying may be from any sector.
As the UK's National Metrology Institute, our expertise and innovations can provide creative solutions, reduce the need for in-house resources, lower technical risk and can deliver revenue, time and cost savings for businesses across many different industries.
Tapping into the great depth of expertise at NPL has been invaluable in helping us understand the measurement challenges we are faced with, and enabled us to incorporate some significant improvements into system design.
Michael Gois - Chief Technical Officer, Senceive
The A4I project has been invaluable in unlocking world-leading facilities and expertise which would have otherwise been inaccessible to us. The knowledge gained helped us overcome a problem in our manufacturing process, improving the durability of our fuel cell and making it a much more competitive technology.
Erik Engebretsen - Head of Engineering, Bramble Energy
Analysis for Innovators has helped 235 UK companies to better understand their problems since 2017, helping them to:
Analysis of the programme tells us that:
Do you want to solve an issue that is impacting your productivity and sales? Is it a problem with product reliability, manufacturability/cost of product or product lifetime?
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Read our Analysis for Innovators case studies to find out how NPL has helped customers improve productivity, accelerate innovation and save on resources.
NPL characterised the surface composition of Echion Technologies lithium-ion electrodes for use in green applications.
Find out moreNPL helps to reduce the cost of green hydrogen
Find out moreNPL helped inform the modelling of Oxford HighQ's novel instrumentation for particle analysis
Find out moreNPL helps to uncover new applications for Paragraf’s graphene-based Hall sensors through extreme condition testing
Find out moreUnderstanding how the surface chemistry of functionalised graphene affects the properties of nanocomposites.
Find out moreAdaptix has developed a solution to the combined shortcomings of existing technologies: a novel X-ray source that allows low-cost, truly portable 3D scans.
Find out moreETC worked with NPL to explore techniques for measuring material erosion during the testing process.
Find out moreThere are a small number of piston ring manufacturers in the world for these types of ring and they struggle to meet global demand.
Find out moreNPL measurements improve model used to ensure that composite aircraft structures and wind turbine blades meet design specifications.
Find out moreA promising new application of MRI is Arterial Spin Labelling (ASL), which provides measures of perfusion, the rate of blood flow to an organ.
Find out moreNPL helps AgPlus solve materials chemistry challenge, unblocking the route to mass producing its diagnostic devices.
Find out moreAdaptix are developing low-dose, affordable 3D imaging and worked with NPL as part of the Analysis for Innovators initiative. Find out how they benefited from the relations built with NPL.
See how Analysis for Innovators and NPL scientists worked with The Imagination Factory to help fast track new technology to market and provide a positive impact on millions of train travellers. Find out how Analysis for Innovators can help your company.
Learn how Analysis for Innovators helped solved a key production challenge for Fleet Bio with a fully funded 3-month project.
Hear how Analysis for Innovators funding has helped Smith & Nephew solve an analytical problem occurring in a new microbial wound dressing product.