Advanced Manufacturing grants in the United Kingdom

Between cycles

Funds NIST partnership research across metrology, nanotechnology, AI and advanced manufacturing, open to almost any non-federal organisation except individuals.

Between cycles

Funds Minnesota angel investors through a refundable credit for investments in high-technology startups.

Between cycles

Pays up to $10,000 to photonics startups pitching at Photonics West 2027.

Between cycles

Offers Creative Destruction Lab cohorts with mentorship, customer discovery, and venture readiness to help startups scale.

Closed

Awards 15,000 Euro plus exhibition space and mentoring to the winning early-stage company at the ACHEMA Start-up Award 2027, for new ventures in chemistry, process engineering or biotechnology.

Closed

Pays $180,000 in cash prizes to developer and robotics teams that train an AI model to solve a real electronics-assembly cable-handling problem on Intrinsic's platform.

Closed

Gives selected applied-AI startups a live pitch slot at XTC's AI:360 Summit plus investor and partner introductions.

Closed

Awards equity-free cash prizes and strategic investment access to ConTech startups pitching to a consortium of ten construction-industry corporate venture arms.

Closed

Funds global teams developing diagnostic devices and screening tools that cost approximately $1 per test or near-zero incremental cost per person screened for deployment in low-income countries.

Closed

Pays a 100,000-euro equity-free grand prize to early-stage deep tech startups globally.

Closed

Funds researchers at companies including startups doing R&D aimed at commercialization under JST's Global Startup Campus initiative.

Closed

Runs a nine-month, government-backed accelerator that helps foreign-founded startups enter and scale in Korea, with prize money for the top 20 teams and further commercialisation grants for the top 8.

Closed

Funds companies developing mobility technology across air, ground and sea, with emphasis on autonomous systems and critical domestic supply-chain components.

Closed

Funds three to five teams from a $58 million pool to build defense-grade RF systems that use optical timing instead of conventional microwave generation.

Open

Funds partnerships of universities, research institutes and businesses to jointly run doctoral training programmes for early-career researchers.

Open

Pays SMEs a fixed EUR60,000 grant to run a six-month market feasibility project testing whether their innovation can be commercialised in a target country in Africa, the Americas, Asia or Oceania.

Open

Awards women founders and co-founders across three prize categories, from EUR 20,000 up to EUR 100,000, for leading breakthrough European innovations.

Open

Pays SMEs and startups a 60,000-euro grant to test whether their solution is viable in a target overseas market.

Scheduled

Funds cross-sector consortia building 'talent ecosystems' that connect researcher training with employer needs to make early research careers more attractive.

Scheduled

Funds consortia running youth science-engagement programmes or researcher-public dialogue events under one of two chosen tracks to boost trust in science.

Scheduled

Funds a group of 3-6 cities to jointly run a year-long 'Science comes to town' public-engagement programme, including the EUCYS and EU TalentOn competitions.

Scheduled

Funds part of the cost of talent-recruitment programmes that give postdoctoral researchers a two-phase path to a stable research career in Europe.

Scheduled

Funds part of the cost of running new or existing doctoral training programmes at universities and research organisations.

Scheduled

Funds city and regional authorities to run living labs that scale up circular-economy solutions across Europe.