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Royal Society Brian Mercer Award for Innovation and Feasibility Awards

Status

Usually opens in April and May and June

Projected from the months this call usually opens — not a date the funder has confirmed.

Closed

Projected from the pattern of past calls — confirm on the funder's page before planning around it.

Amount
£250,000

The Brian Mercer Award for Innovation is worth up to around GBP 250,000; Brian Mercer Feasibility Awards are smaller (historically up to around GBP 30,000) to test commercial viability of a scientific idea.

Funder

The Royal Society

private · national

Deadline: One call a year — Historically an annual call with a spring or summer deadline.

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

For scientists at UK universities or research institutes seeking to commercialise research.

Related reading: How grant deadlines actually work · The Companies House number, explained

Apply on the funder's site

Source. https://royalsociety.org/grants/ · not human-checked

Verified on 14 August 2026

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

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