Digital Innovation Fund

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Support to help you transform your manufacturing business

Made Smarter Innovation - Smart Manufacturing Data Hub (SMDH) provided three different funding opportunities to support manufacturing small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) on their smart manufacturing journey.

These opportunities included:

Lighthouse funding - aimed to develop already proven digital products and processes into readily accessible solutions which meet the needs of manufacturing SMEs. Grant funding of up to £150,000 per project. 

Virtual testbed funding - aimed to provide financial support and opportunities  to bring pre-existing testbeds to the SMDH community and enable SMEs to utilise them.  Grant funding of up to £100,000 per project. 

Rapid Demonstrators funding - aimed to support SMEs with sensor installation, data analysis or similar to enable levelling-up the opportunities for SMEs to exceed and expand. Grant funding of up to £50,000 per project. 

All funding calls have now closed.

Find out more about the SMDH Digital Innovation Fund.

First published 3 October 2023