Innovate UK funding consultancy

From inception to completion and beyond, get tailored support with your UKRI Innovate UK project.

Maximise your chances of success, ensuring efficiency, positive relationships with project partners and comprehensive financial oversight, and ensure you are monetising the work you produce.

5 key considerations

for your INNOVATE UK project

1

  • There are many Innovate UK funding opportunities every year, each with strict eligibility, partnership, and success criteria, alongside a range of time frames, resource requirements and funding limits.

    Ensure you’re choosing the one that fits you, your business, and your current goals.

2

  • Innovate UK applications are renowned for being incredibly long, complicated, and demanding. Work with us to streamline the process.

3

  • It’s vital that your workload is efficiently coordinated, impactful, and utilises the skills of your team and project partners - without draining the resources of the rest of your business.

4

  • One of the most neglected areas of Innovate UK projects, and yet vital to success!

    Ensure you’re grabbing this opportunity and capitalising throughout and beyond the project.

5

  • Looking for investment? Much of the work you produce during your Innovate UK project is proof of your business concept, values, and mission.

    We can advise on how to incorporate this and other documentation into an investor-ready data room.

What can you expect from Vika?

Innovate UK funding project facilitation

Initial ½ day consultation

We’ll workshop the project, your approach, the team, resources and finances you’re able to commit to the project. We’ll establish software and hardware needs, any partnership opportunities, and future exploitation of the project. We’ll also explore the wider needs of your company, to ensure that undertaking the Innovate UK project you are embarking on is beneficial to your goals without compromising your business.

Proposal

We’ll follow up with a proposal, clearly outlining the expected project workload and milestone responsibilities of Vika, yourselves, and other partners within the project. Costings will be presented upfront, so no nasty surprises! 

Project Coordination

We’ll have regular check-ins and workshops, either remotely or in person, to suit you. Vika will continually evaluate any risks to the project, any shortcomings in the workload, and any adjustments needed to realign to project goals. 

Vika will assist in creating project documentation, including the provision where required of templates and the production of supporting spreadsheets and graphics. We will also be actively involved in research and workshopping with potential clients where required.

At specific, pre-agreed milestones we’ll evaluate progress and workload apportioning to ensure efficiency, fair division of labour, and to ensure the success criteria of the grant are met. 

DID YOU KNOW THAT INNOVATE UK WILL PAY FOR PROJECT SUPPORT?

Though it might not feel like it when you’re filling out the application, Innovate UK really do want you to succeed!

Vika’s project coordination support can be included as an expense in the application, meaning your business can cover the majority of costs - whilst becoming much more likely to successfully complete the project and receive the funding you need!

Experienced workshop facilitation gets the best from your team, creatively and productively