TSB: Grants for manufacturing high value chemicals through industrial biotechnology

Funding opportunity

The UK Technology Strategy Board is running a competition to fund the development and commercialisation of processes to generate high value chemicals though industrial biotechnology. Up to £2.5 million will be invested and applications are invited for both feasibility and collaborative research and development projects.

Projects should look at how industrial biotechnology can be competitively applied to the production of high value chemicals. All applicants must show how their project will make an overall positive contribution in terms of economic, environmental and social impacts, taking into account the full product life cycle.

The competition opens on October 12, 2010. Proposals for collaborative R&D projects should be business-led and include an end-user. Proposals for feasibility projects may be from business-led consortia or single companies.

Further information about the competition will be available from the Competitions page of the Technology Strategy Board website http://www.innovateuk.org/competitions/competitionsearch.ashx