Grants by country and industry

Semiconductors grants in the United Kingdom

Explore Semiconductors grants for companies in the United Kingdom. This list brings together funding for chip design, fabrication, packaging, photonic and power electronics from UK innovation agencies, research funders and foundations, international programs open to applicants in the United Kingdom, and competitions any company can enter, with the deadline, award size and eligibility on every listing. Grants aimed at Semiconductors in the United Kingdom come first.

Showing 1-24 of 245 grants

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council logo
Open

UKRI Translation: Impact Acceleration: CHERI IKC

🇬🇧EPSRC · United Kingdom

Establish an Innovation and Knowledge Centre for CHERI adoption and commercialisation.

CybersecurityHardware+1
£7.7MSep'26
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council logo
Open

Future computing paradigms Network Plus

🇬🇧EPSRC · United Kingdom

Build a multidisciplinary network for future computing paradigms.

AIHardware+4
£2.8MOct'26
Innovate UK logo
Open

National Materials Innovation Programme: CR&D Rd1

🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom

Funds UK-registered businesses collaborating on industrial research into advanced materials, covering up to 70% of project costs from a £12 million pool.

Advanced MaterialsMedtech+1
£500K – £1MOct'26
UK Research and Innovation logo
Open

Transformative sustainable AI technologies

🇬🇧UKRI · United Kingdom

Funding for speculative, high-risk research on sustainable AI technologies.

AIHardware+2
£603KNov'26
Innovate UK logo
Open

UK-Singapore CRD 2026

🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom

Funding for UK-Singapore industrial research collaborations.

AIBiotech+7
£100K – £900KDec'26
Ministry of Defence logo
Open

Defence Innovation Loans/27 — Next

🇬🇧MoD · United Kingdom

Funds companies with strong defense applications through development loans and advisory support for advanced innovation.

DefenseHardware+5
£100K – £1M
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council logo
Open

EPSRC standard research grant: responsive mode

🇬🇧EPSRC · United Kingdom

Research grants for excellent discovery led research within EPSRC’s remit.

AICybersecurity+5
Innovate UK logo
Open

Eurostars Call 11 (UK)

🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom

Funds United Kingdom firms in multinational innovation consortia for export readiness.

AIBiotech+8
£360K
Innovate UK logo
Open

Innovate UK Themed Competitions

🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom

Funds sector-themed innovation competitions in the United Kingdom for hydrogen, manufacturing, agri-tech, health, and AI.

AgritechAI+13
£25K – £5M
HM Revenue and Customs logo
Open

Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS) — Company Certification

🇬🇧HMRC · United Kingdom

Offers United Kingdom start-up founders investment support through certified tax relief for early innovation and development.

AIBiotech+14
£250K
Scottish Enterprise logo
Open

SMART: SCOTLAND

🇬🇧Scottish Enterprise · United Kingdom

Funds Scottish SMEs conducting high-risk feasibility studies to prove out novel technologies through Scottish Enterprise R&D grants.

BiotechClimate Tech+6
£100K
CS
Between cycles

CSconnected Supply Chain Development Programme

🇬🇧CSconnected · United Kingdom

Funds compound-semiconductor supply chain projects in the Cardiff Capital Region.

Semiconductors
£50K
HM Revenue and Customs logo
Between cycles

Enhanced R&D Intensive Support (ERIS) — Scheme

🇬🇧HMRC · United Kingdom

Provides enhanced tax relief for loss-making United Kingdom companies with intensive innovation spending.

AIBiotech+12
HM Revenue and Customs logo
Between cycles

Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) — Company Certification

🇬🇧HMRC · United Kingdom

Offers United Kingdom startups with certification support tied to investor incentive access for high growth innovation.

AIBiotech+14
£10M
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council logo
Between cycles

EPSRC ACT Proof of Concept

🇬🇧EPSRC · United Kingdom

Supports United Kingdom researchers by turning high-risk ideas into proof of concept through translational innovation pilots.

CybersecurityIoT & Edge+2
£100K – £500K
HM Revenue and Customs logo
Between cycles

Patent Box — 10% Corporation Tax Rate on IP Profits

🇬🇧HMRC · United Kingdom

Offers United Kingdom innovation firms an improved tax route on qualifying intellectual property income.

BiotechHardware+8
HM Revenue and Customs logo
Between cycles

R&D Tax Relief — Merged RDEC (Scheme)

🇬🇧HMRC · United Kingdom

Administers United Kingdom tax-research support claims through HMRC filing workflows connected to corporate innovation activity.

AIBiotech+14
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council logo
Closed

EPSRC Network Plus: Materials Innovation Programme Coordination

🇬🇧EPSRC · United Kingdom

Supports United Kingdom materials innovators through networked collaboration and shared innovation roadmaps.

Advanced MaterialsEnergy Tech+3
£1.4M
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council logo
Closed

EPSRC Prosperity Partnerships Round 7

🇬🇧EPSRC · United Kingdom

Supports United Kingdom business-academia teams through partnerships that build strategic innovation in priority sectors.

AIQuantum+7
£500K
Innovate UK logo
Closed

Innovation Loans Round 23

🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom

Funds United Kingdom late-stage ventures with long-term patient government loans.

AIBiotech+8
£100K – £5M
Innovate UK logo
Closed

National Materials Innovation Programme: Feasibility Studies

🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom

Funds UK registered businesses conducting feasibility studies in advanced materials innovation through Innovate UK grants under the National Materials Innovation Programme.

Advanced MaterialsSemiconductors+5
£50K – £100K
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council logo
Closed

Pre-announcement: Open-source semiconductor security platform development

🇬🇧EPSRC · United Kingdom

One-year research projects to inform an open-source hardware security platform.

SemiconductorsCybersecurity+1
Innovate UK logo
Closed

Scaling Supply Chains for Quantum Enabled Sensing and PNT

🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom

Funds UK business-led consortia developing supply chains for quantum enabled sensing and positioning, navigation and timing technologies.

QuantumHardware+4
£4M – £6M
Innovate UK logo
Closed

UK-Switzerland Collaborative R&D

🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom

Funds UK businesses doing joint R&D in specific technology areas with Swiss partners through Innovate UK bilateral competition rounds.

AIBiotech+10
£450K

Browse by Category