The Technology Strategy Board is to invest up to £2m in feasibility studies to stimulate innovation across the space industry, ensuring that small and micro businesses in the UK are well-equipped to respond to society’s greatest current and future challenges.
Feasibility studies should last up to three months and each cost no more than £33,000 in total. We will fund 75% of the project cost (up to £25,000). Projects may be collaborative or carried out by a single company.
This competition will focus on feasibility studies that:
-accelerate the development of innovative commercial technologies for space
-lead to new services which exploit data gained from space-based systems
-lead on to identifiable commercial opportunities or will position UK organisations to access other public/ private funding where this is required for further development.
The competition is co-funded by South East England Development Agency (SEEDA) which will co-fund collaborative projects that:
-have at least one industrial partner in the SEEDA region
-demonstrate the potential for significant impact in the south east of England.
Each project will culminate in a short report and, where relevant, a demonstrator. Projects will also present their achievements at a public ‘Collaboration Nation’ event to be held in autumn 2011. This competition activity complements three feasibility studies competitions being run concurrently in the areas of technology-inspired innovation, digital services and nanoscale technologies.
Opens 10 January
Briefing day 19 January
Closes (single stage) 10 February
£2m available
Feasibility Studies for Innovation in Space pdf available here.