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Grants

NIHR Invention for Innovation (i4i) Product Development Awards

Status

Status not published

Runs to published competition cut-offs, historically two or three per year.

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Amount
£2,000,000

No formal cap but awards are typically GBP 500,000 to GBP 2 million over 12-36 months for medical devices, diagnostics, digital health and regenerative medicine at TRL 3-6.

Funder

National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR)

public · national

Deadline: Fixed cut-off dates — Runs to published competition cut-offs, historically two or three per year.

Your odds
Not published

This funder does not publish a success rate. We rank it using the rate observed across similar programmes and label it as an estimate rather than implying we know.

Effort
moderate

Moderate — a form and supporting documents.

Who can apply

Consortium must include an SME and an NHS or academic partner; the innovation must have a clear NHS adoption route.

How to apply

  1. Check remit and TRL fit with the i4i team
  2. Submit a stage 1 application by the competition deadline
  3. Committee shortlisting
  4. Stage 2 full application and interview
  5. Funding decision and contracting

What you will need

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Apply on the funder's site

Source. https://www.nihr.ac.uk/ · not human-checked

Verified on 14 August 2026

Source: funder's homepage — the programme page was not found

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