Up to £900,000 for UK-Singapore Innovation Projects – Innovate UK

The UK-Singapore Collaborative R&D 2026 competition supports UK businesses working with Singapore companies to develop innovative industrial research projects with strong commercial potential.

Here’s what you can expect:

• £100,000–£900,000 in Innovate UK grant funding per project

• Up to £3 million available for UK participants overall

• Funding for collaborative industrial research

• Up to 70% of eligible costs for micro and small businesses

• Up to 60% for medium-sized businesses

• Up to 50% for large businesses

• Research organisations undertaking non-economic activity can receive up to 100% of eligible costs, while academic institutions can receive 80% FEC, subject to consortium limits

• Projects can focus on Advanced Manufacturing

• Clean Energy

• Life Sciences

• Digital and frontier technologies including AI, semiconductors, quantum, cybersecurity, advanced connectivity and engineering biology

• Projects must demonstrate a clear route to commercially exploiting their results.

Who can apply?

• The lead applicant must be a UK-registered business of any size

• UK businesses, academic institutions and Research and Technology Organisations can collaborate

• The consortium must include at least one separate Singapore-registered business

• The Singapore partner applies separately through Enterprise Singapore and does not receive Innovate UK funding

• UK and Singapore participants must make meaningful technological contributions

• No single country or project partner can account for more than 70% of the total project costs

• The majority of project activity must take place in the UK and Singapore

• UK partners must intend to exploit the project results from or within the UK.

Deadline: 16 December 2026 at 11:00am UK time.