There are specific requirements in the application form of R&D Grants, summarised here:
- Problem / Solution / Impact: An overview of your business/organisation, the problem you are attempting to address, your solution and the potential impact of your solution
- Innovation: Details on the work you have done to date, the current state of the art solution in the market and how your solution goes beyond that current state of the art to disrupt/innovate
- Team: Your expertise, experience, consortium, advisors, etc
- Market & Route to Market: The market you are targeting with your completed solution, along with your approach to commercialising the innovation (ideally globally)
- Impact: The impact grant funding will have on your business/organisation, your partners, your supply chain, the wider economy, citizens, government policy, etc
- Funding Need: The justification for grant funding from the government and why you cannot raise the funds from elsewhere (grant funding is defined as a “funder of last resort”)
- Project Plan: Details about how you will deliver your project
- Project Budget: The project costs, broken down into categories
- Annexes: Supporting documents to back up claims made in the main application.
R&D Grant applications can range in length from 20 pages (EIC Pathfinder, Innovate UK Smart Grant) to 50 pages (EIC Accelerator, Eurostars), and collaborative R&D grant applications can be over 150 pages in total.