It is important for us to enhance our offer so that more high-potential and scaling businesses can become investment-ready and crowd in growth capital. a scaled-up programme of Investor Partnerships, providing grant funding for research and development projects to investment-ready small and medium enterprises with aligned private sector-led risk capital through equity investment. Grants are provided where the company is also able to secure equity investment, and brokerage between applicants and investors is provided Horizon Europe is the largest ever European funding programme for research and innovation. The budget for the programme is €95.5 billion and will run from 2021 until 2027. UK businesses, researchers and scientists have access to EU funding on equivalent terms as organisations in EU countries. We therefore strongly encourage researchers, businesses and other innovators in the UK and worldwide to continue to work together in establishing global consortia to bid for funding.

continue to provide grant funding for high-potential early-stage innovation ideas on the route to commercialisation through expanding our Smart competitions In 2022, we will launch the No Limits mission, aimed at uniting regional and national change makers with a shared ambition: for UK innovators and the UK innovation ecosystem to represent UK society. continue to expand our delivery, enabling a significant increase in the number of UK businesses we support to make global success a key part of their innovation-driven growth and scaling journey by 2024 to 2025, through our global growth programmes such as the Global Business Innovation Programme, Global Incubator Programme and Global ExplorerOur delivery approach is built on 5 strategic themes and a set of 6 strong foundations that are central to all our activities.

build the capacity of UK innovators working with our private sector partners to build better boards and to make use of non-executive directors as a strategic growth tool Innovate UK is the UK’s innovation agency. We are working towards greater productivity and economic growth by supporting businesses to develop and realise the potential of new ideas, including those from the UK’s world-class research base. Cross-functional collaboration can help ensure end-user involvement throughout the development process. At many companies, marketing’s role is to champion the interests of end users as development teams evolve products and to help ensure that the final result is what everyone first envisioned. But this responsibility is honored more often in the breach than in the observance. Other companies, meanwhile, rationalize that consumers don’t necessarily High-performing innovators work hard to develop the ecosystems that help deliver these benefits. Indeed, they strive to become partners of choice, increasing the likelihood that the best ideas and people will come their way. That requires a systematic approach. First, these companies find out which partners they are already working with; surprisingly few companies know this. Then they decide which networks—say, four or five of them—they ideally Growth and commercialisation support through Innovate UK EDGE for high-potential scaling businesses. World-class innovationWe will explore opportunities for Catapults to do more to stimulate and leverage private sector investment in innovation and enhance access to Catapults for small and medium enterprises through our EDGE growth support programme. Demonstrable experience in delivering results in a fast-paced, multi-stakeholder programme environment across different sectors and international cultures. Ideally with a partial/full Project Management qualification. Our ambition is to constantly survey the horizon and respond intelligently to emerging research, technologies, and innovation trends. There are also a range of focused brokerage events to help you find new international business opportunities and the key information you need on markets and sectors.