UK-Singapore CRD 2026

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. Funding type Grant Project size UK partners grant funding request can be between £100,000 and £900,000 per project. Accessibility and Inclusion We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and are committed to making our application process accessible to everyone. This includes making reasonable adjustments for people who have a disability or a long-term condition and face barriers applying to us. You can contact us at any time to ask for guidance. We recommend you contact us at least 15 working days before this competition’s closing date to allow us to put the most suitable support in place. The support we can provide may be limited if you contact us close to the competition deadline. You can contact Innovate UK by email or call 0300 321 4357. Our phone lines are open from 9am to 12pm and 2pm to 5pm UK time, Monday to Friday (excluding bank holidays). Contains public sector information from Find a grant, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Your project Your project must: have a grant funding request of between £100,000 and £900,000 last between 24 and 36 months not start before 1 May 2027 end by 30 April 2030 The majority of the project work must be undertaken in the UK and Singapore. UK project partners must carry out the majority of their project work in the UK and intend to exploit the results from or in the UK, and spend most of the funding within the UK. The consortium must include at least one business registered in Singapore that is a separate legal entity and not linked to the UK partners. This is to ensure that projects encourage genuine international collaboration, not internal company research. Linked companies are considered a single entity under the parent company. Your project must demonstrate a balanced technological contribution by the participants from both countries and must be equally significant to all participants. No one country or project partner can represent more than 70% of the total project cos...