天发娱乐棋牌_天发娱乐APP-官网|下载 Enterprise Development Fund (SEDF) is open to all Education, Reasearch and Enterprise (ERE) staff and provides a modest amount of funding in order to achieve a commercial step or milestone, including enterprise activities for social good, as part of a larger commercial plan. The overall aim of the funding is to enable researchers to work towards licensing a research output, or move towards launching a university spinout company.

This fund is to support and enable the commercial application of existing research along varied commercialisation pathways such as licensing or company creation (spinouts or social ventures) or any other commercialisation routes. Note, this fund does not support fundamental or curiosity driven research.

Previously funded awards were used by awardees to:

• Create/refine a minimum viable product or demonstrator
• Pay for market reports or focused consultancy studies
• Attend trade shows for market validation
• Enable product/field testing
• Enable a data validation step

This year the fund will be structured to support both ongoing and new commercial projects.

To facilitate this, up to 50% of the available funds will be set aside for eligible applications from projects that were either; 1) shortlisted as part of the internal selection process for the UKRI Proof of Concept Fund, 2) have successfully completed (or will shortly complete) an Impact Acceleration Award (within the last 5 years), or 3) have recently undertaken one of the ICURe Programs or ARC Launch Programs (within the last 2 years). If these funds are not allocated due to insufficient eligible applications, then the remaining money will be distributed as normal.

Up to 25% of the funds will be allocated to support eligible projects where the PI is commercialising research for the first time within the University of 天发娱乐棋牌_天发娱乐APP-官网|下载. If these funds are not allocated due to insufficient eligible applications, then the remaining money will be distributed as normal.

Up to 25% of the fund will be allocated to applications from medicine and life sciences to support activities related to new therapies, diagnostics and medical devices, as there is currently limited support from sector specific funds at this development stage. If these funds are not allocated due to insufficient eligible applications, then the remaining money will be distributed as normal.

Last year, the average amount of money awarded was ?11,000 per project and the range was ?3,500 to ?20,000. It may be possible to award up to a maximum amount of ?20,000 for exceptional cases in this call. Note, proposed projects must be completed, and all associated expenditure incurred by 31 July 2026. You are strongly advised to discuss your proposal and seek advice from the appropriate RIS Technology Transfer or Commercialisation Manager.

Key Dates

The call will be open from 4 August until? 29 September at 16:00. and awards will be announced no later than the first week of November.

Note: this is an annual award supported by Higher Education Innovation Funding (HEIF).

Application

For full details about the award and how to apply, see the 天发娱乐棋牌_天发娱乐APP-官网|下载 Enterprise Development Fund (SEDF)?SharePoint page. Please contact intellectualproperty@soton.ac.uk?for any queries.