Scottish Health and Life Sciences Innovation Workshop The Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund Ian Campbell Innovate UK, Director of Health &Life Sciences Email:Ian.Campbell@innovateuk.gov.uk Twitter: @IanWCampbell
Industrial Strategy Green paper consultation on 10 pillars input now being reviewed Investing in science, research and innovation Upgrading infrastructure Improving procurement Delivering affordable energy and clean growth Driving growth across the whole country Developing skills Supporting businesses to start and grow Encouraging trade and inward investment Cultivating world-leading sectors Creating the right local institutions
National Productivity Innovation Fund (NPIF) Approximately 425 million to be spent in 2017/18 rising to approximately 2bn in 2020-2021 Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund Additional Funding to increase research capacity Science and innovation audits (third wave) Funding to increase university collaboration in technology transfer and working with industry
Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF) The Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF) builds on the UK s worldclass research base and delivers the science that business needs to transform existing industries and create new ones It accelerates commercial exploitation of the most exciting technologies the UK has to offer the world to ensure that scientific investment truly delivers economic impact, jobs and growth right across the country Programmes delivered by the fund will be industry-led and powered by multi-disciplinary research and business-academic collaboration The ISCF is delivered by Innovate UK and Research Councils UK, and eventually, the single voice for the UK s research and innovation landscape
ISCF Wave 1 Challenges Medicines manufacturing technologies Robots for a safer world Batteries for clean and flexible energy storage Self-driving vehicles Manufacturing and materials of the future Satellites and space technology
ISCF Wave 1 Challenges 197M to develop first-of-a-kind technologies for the manufacture of medicines to accelerate patient access to new drugs and treatments 93M to develop AI and Robotic systems that can be deployed in extreme environments such as occur in offshore energy, nuclear energy, space and deep mining 252M to develop world leading batteries, designed and manufactured in the UK, to fully exploit the industrial opportunity of vehicle electrification
ISCF Wave 1 Challenges 38M to develop the AI and control systems need to drive vehicles autonomously through complex environments 26M to develop the next generation of affordable light-weight composite materials for use in aerospace applications 99M to develop next generation launch technologies and manufacturing and testing capabilities that will allow the UK to construct satellites and deliver payloads into orbit
Digital Health Technology Catalyst Digital Health Technology Briefing Catalyst- Round 1 ISCF Wave 1
DHTC 35 million funding programme being funded through the ISCF over 4 yrs Created to provide a sustainable pipeline of digital health products designed to meet NHS needs and support the growth of UK companies, was one of the recommendations in the Accelerated Access Review. Aligns with the National Information Board s aims to: address specific market failures so that the digital health sector can grow deliver transformative, cost-effective technologies to patients more quickly
AIM: to speed up the development of new digital solutions to healthcare challenges and grow the industry. Projects must focus on the feasibility or development of digital health or digitallyenabled medical technologies. These must have the potential to achieve one or more of the following: improve patient outcomes transform healthcare delivery enable more efficient delivery of healthcare Technologies may be designed to be used in both clinical/ non-clinical everyday settings..
DHTC Key Points Feasibility Industrial Research and Experimental Development Total Project Costs 50,000 to 75,000 500,000 to 1m Project Duration Up to one year 1 to 3 years Project Start Date By February 1 st 2018 By February 1 st 2018 Project Type Single SME or collaboration Collaboration Project Lead UK based SME UK based SME Application Process Single written Single written Dates & Timelines Competition opens: 31st July 17 Registration by: 4th Oct 17 Application by: 11th Oct 17
NPIF Skills 250M over the next four years to continue to build the pipeline of high-skilled research talent 1,000 PhD places and support for new fellowships for early and mid-career researchers aligned to the Industrial Strategy Supplemented with targeted investment to attract global talent from overseas to the UK, helping to maintain the UK s position as a world-leader in science and research Ernest Rutherford Fund supporting fellowships from early-career and senior researchers from the developed world and from emerging research powerhouses such as India, China, Brazil and Mexico