UKRI Translation: Impact Acceleration Accounts 2027
Flexible early-stage funding for research organisations to progress research impact.
Impact Acceleration Accounts (IAAs) are strategic awards for research organisations to respond to impact opportunities in flexible, responsive and creative ways. They support translation of outputs from curiosity-driven research across the breadth of relevant council remits.
Funding supports a wide range of impact activities, including proof of concept projects, commercialisation, market validati…
IAAs provide early-stage support for progressing research outputs towards the next stages in the impact pipeline, including proof of concept projects, commercialisation, market validation, and activities targeting policy, business and the third sectors. They cannot fund new, fundamental research; project lead or project co-lead time; indirect costs or estates; Intellectual Property protection costs; equipment with a value of £25,000 or more; contributions to Knowledge Transfer Partnerships; or non-specific public engagement and general science communication.
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