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Grants

NIHR Invention for Innovation programme

NIHR Invention for Innovation (i4i)

Status

Open continuously

No deadline — apply whenever you are ready.

Always open
Amount
Not published

Product Development Awards fund late-stage development of medical devices, diagnostics and digital health technologies; awards have commonly ranged from around GBP 500,000 to GBP 2 million. The i4i Connect strand funds smaller earlier-stage projects for SMEs.

Funder

National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR)

public · national

Deadline: One call a year — i4i runs recurring competition rounds with published deadlines, historically two to 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
quick

Quick — mostly identity and bank details.

Who can apply

UK-based SMEs, NHS organisations and universities; industry-academia collaboration is usually required.

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Apply on the funder's site

Source. https://www.nihr.ac.uk/funding/invention-for-innovation-i4i · not human-checked

Verified on 14 August 2026

Source: www.nihr.ac.uk

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