Advanced Connectivity Technologies
Innovate UK funding competition for connectivity technology projects.
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Which small businesses can now bid for £500,000 in connectivity funding?
Timeline for Advanced Connectivity Technologies
Opened with up to £500,000 on offer for micro and small businesses
UK Startups and Innovation: Innovate UK keeps its funding calendarBackground
Advanced Connectivity Technologies is an Innovate UK competition that opened on Wednesday 15 July 2026, offering up to £500,000 to micro and small businesses developing connectivity technology projects, with a deadline of 9 September.
Innovate UK runs the scheme alongside its wider industrial research competition calendar, targeting smaller firms that would struggle to compete for larger awards such as the £10m Createch competition, which closed applications the same week.
The scheme's focus on micro and small businesses reflects an effort to widen access to public innovation funding beyond the larger companies that typically dominate bigger competition rounds.
