- Competition opens: Monday 6 November 2023
- Competition closes: Wednesday 20 December 2023 11:00am
SBRI open competition for organisations to apply for a share of up to £800,000 to develop and demonstrate the feasibility of innovative solutions for plant health.
This is a Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) competition delivered by Innovate UK part of UKRI, supported by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and the Biotechnology Biological Science Research Council (BBSRC). Your project’s total costs must be between £20,000 and £150,000, inclusive of VAT.
Scope
This competition aims to accelerate the effective development of innovative solutions, technologies, or practices that enhance plant health and biosecurity activities. With a focus on regulated pests, diseases and of future operational deployment.
Your project can deliver innovation focused research activities to progress solutions towards one or more of the challenges listed for this competition. This can include establishing the feasibility of an idea, to demonstrating principle, or developing a prototype.
Your project outputs will be expected to outline quantitative potential improvements in effectiveness or efficiency savings of your solution.
Projects which address the challenges by exploring a biological question or applying bioscience or biotechnology to advance the needs of solution users are encouraged.
Your project must demonstrate:
- the development and operational feasibility of innovative technologies or practices
- how you have taken the needs of intended users into consideration in your product or service development
- a credible and practical route to use in an operational environment and commercialisation
- knowledge transfer and exchange between the solution providers and solution users
We encourage collaboration and co-design between solution developers and real-world solution users. This can include a solutions provider working with UK horticultural, forestry, agricultural growers, importers and exporters of plants and plant products, or working directly with the UK Plant Health Service Inspectorate.
This SBRI competition is open to both technical feasibility studies and prototype development and evaluation.
Your project can work closely with stakeholders to develop a solution. You can include prototyping, demonstrating, piloting, testing and validation of new or improved products, processes or services in environments representative of real-life operating conditions.
For full infomation and to apply visit the competition page.