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ELP US SOLVE THE BIGGEST UNMET NEEDS IN ASTHMA WITH TECHNOLOGY

NIHR, EPSRC and Asthma UK and the British Lung Foundation have come together to launch a £3M+ fund to support the development and adoption of asthma health technologies. This fund has been designed to support innovation from concept stage through to scaling in the NHS.

Learn more about the unmet need and potential impact of this fund from someone with asthma

Vision of the fund:

We see health technology as a scalable and effective solution to some of the greatest areas of unmet need in asthma which affects 5.4m people in the UK alone. The intention of this Fund is to support the development and adoption of scalable, user-centred and evidence-based tools for the diagnosis, monitoring or management of asthma.

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Organisations can apply for a share of £160,000 inclusive of VAT to develop a solution which will improve quality of care and outcomes for hip fracture patients.

This is a Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) competition funded by the Scottish Government through Health Innovation South East Scotland.

The aim of the competition is to improve outcomes for hip fracture patients by developing a system using routinely collected health data and data-analytics techniques.

The system must optimise complex patient care pathways to deliver hip fracture care according to national care standards.

This is phase 1 of a potential 2-phase competition. A decision to proceed with phase 2 will depend on the outcomes from phase 1 and assessment of a separate application into a subsequent phase 2 competition.

Only successful applicants from phase 1 will be able to apply to take part in phase 2.

Successful applicants will receive funding, as well as guidance from NHS Lothian, University of Edinburgh and access to the DataLoch repository of health data for South East Scotland.

In applying to this phase 1 competition you are entering into a competitive process.

Any adoption and implementation of a solution from this competition would be subject of a separate, possibly competitive, procurement exercise. This competition does not cover the purchase of any solution.

This competition closes at 11am UK time on the deadline stated.

Scope

The aim of the competition is to improve outcomes for hip fracture patients by developing a system using routinely collected health data and data analytics techniques.

The system must optimise complex patient care pathways to deliver hip fracture care according to national care standards.

Your project can focus on one or more of the following:

data analytics
machine learning
Artificial intelligence (AI)
analysis of risk
software development
computerised decision-support/ integrate care pathway development

In phase 1 you must:

gather clinical needs and care pathway requirements
develop current and future state maps of hip fracture services
demonstrate the technical feasibility of your proposed innovation
establish ongoing collaboration between technical and clinical members of the project team
formalise any required ethical approvals, data sharing agreements and contracts
begin working with clinical data
develop a technical specification which describes in detail how a proposed phase 2 ‘Technology Development’ will be completed

At this stage contracts will be awarded for phase 1 only. You must define your goals and outline your plans for phase 2. This is part of the full commercial implementation in your phase 1 proposal.

You must demonstrate a credible and practical route to market, so your application must include a plan to commercialise your results.

In phase 2 we will ask successful applicants from phase 1 to:

develop and evaluate a prototype of your solution
test the prototype on real-world data and systems within NHS Lothian to establish clinical utility
develop a business plan for full commercial exploitation

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ISCF will work with Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, to invest up to £22 million in innovation projects. These will be to support the government’s green industrial revolution in transport, energy and industrial sectors.

The aim of this competition is to facilitate the UK's niche and volume supply chain and manufacturing capability growth in power electronics, machines and drives (PEMD).

Your proposal must help the UK to achieve the objectives of the Driving the Electric Revolution challenge and have a significant impact on the PEMD supply chain in the UK to support the UK’s drive towards net zero.

In applying to this competition, you are entering into a competitive process. This competition closes at 11am UK time on the deadline stated.

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Scope

The aim of this competition is to address key research and development opportunities in the UK power electronics, machines, and drives (PEMD) supply chain to support the UK’s drive towards net zero. This is to facilitate UK niche and volume supply chain and manufacturing capability growth in PEMD.

By niche supply chain we mean low volume, high value. By volume supply chain we mean high volume, high efficiency.

Up to £22 million will be invested in business-led, supply chain focused, innovation projects that enable future improvements in:

productivity
capacity
quality
efficiency

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Projects must:

start by 1 February 2022
be industry led
be collaborative

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Your project outputs should ideally have potential for cross-sector impact. Your outputs must:

show a demonstrable benefit to a UK PEMD supply chain
be exploitable through future activities
demonstrate a credible return on investment

We want to see a range of project sizes and durations from £500,000 to £5 million and from 18 months to 36 months duration.

We want to fund a portfolio of projects across multiple sectors.

The Challenge Director reserves the right to make sure that the portfolio of successful projects will have the greatest positive impact to the UK’s PEMD supply chain.

Specific themes

Your project can focus on the following areas:

Manufacturing process development, such as:

innovations and approaches to improve manufacturing productivity
implementation of an innovative new tool into a process line
automation of a specific process
reconfiguring a process line in an innovative way to improve productivity or flexibility

Design for manufacture, such as:

designing, redesigning, prototyping a product where the focus is on how you manufacture it more efficiently and cost effectively
specification of a manufacturing process
virtual process development (VPD) including improvements in modelling and simulation software
developments which enable products to be manufactured with recycling taken into consideration

Innovative end-of-line testing and product validation processes:

scale-up and/or automation of testing and validation processes, with an aim of increasing productivity
supply chain improvements

Circular economy, including:

scale-up of processes for the recycling and recovery of materials from end-of-life PEMD products
lifecycle and embedded carbon analysis with a view of process improvement
waste reduction and process energy efficiency improvements

This list is not intended to be exhaustive. Other PEMD supply chain improvements may be in scope. To discuss the scope of your project with us please email us at support@innovateuk.ukri.org at least 10 days before the close date of this competition

Research categories

We will fund industrial research projects and experimental development projects, as defined in the guidance on categories of research.

Projects we will not fund

We are not funding:

fundamental research, feasibility studies or proof of concept projects
projects that are not collaborative
projects that are not industry led
projects that focus on product development which do not focus on design for manufacture and supply chain development
projects that do not develop capability that will enhance UK PEMD supply chains
projects that do not demonstrate a credible return on investment
projects focussed around batteries
projects dependent on export performance
projects dependent on domestic inputs usage

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