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.
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UKRI Translation: Impact Acceleration: CHERI IKC
🇬🇧EPSRC · United Kingdom
Establish an Innovation and Knowledge Centre for CHERI adoption and commercialisation.
Future computing paradigms Network Plus
🇬🇧EPSRC · United Kingdom
Build a multidisciplinary network for future computing paradigms.
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.
Transformative sustainable AI technologies
🇬🇧UKRI · United Kingdom
Funding for speculative, high-risk research on sustainable AI technologies.
UK-Singapore CRD 2026
🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom
Funding for UK-Singapore industrial research collaborations.
Defence Innovation Loans/27 — Next
🇬🇧MoD · United Kingdom
Funds companies with strong defense applications through development loans and advisory support for advanced innovation.
EPSRC standard research grant: responsive mode
🇬🇧EPSRC · United Kingdom
Research grants for excellent discovery led research within EPSRC’s remit.
Eurostars Call 11 (UK)
🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom
Funds United Kingdom firms in multinational innovation consortia for export readiness.
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.
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.
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.
CSconnected Supply Chain Development Programme
🇬🇧CSconnected · United Kingdom
Funds compound-semiconductor supply chain projects in the Cardiff Capital Region.
Enhanced R&D Intensive Support (ERIS) — Scheme
🇬🇧HMRC · United Kingdom
Provides enhanced tax relief for loss-making United Kingdom companies with intensive innovation spending.
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.
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.
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.
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.
EPSRC Network Plus: Materials Innovation Programme Coordination
🇬🇧EPSRC · United Kingdom
Supports United Kingdom materials innovators through networked collaboration and shared innovation roadmaps.
EPSRC Prosperity Partnerships Round 7
🇬🇧EPSRC · United Kingdom
Supports United Kingdom business-academia teams through partnerships that build strategic innovation in priority sectors.
Innovation Loans Round 23
🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom
Funds United Kingdom late-stage ventures with long-term patient government loans.
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.
Pre-announcement: Open-source semiconductor security platform development
🇬🇧EPSRC · United Kingdom
One-year research projects to inform an open-source hardware security platform.
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.
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.