Advanced Connectivity Technologies
Innovate UK funding competition for connectivity technology projects.
Advanced Connectivity Technologies opened on 15 July 2026, offering up to £500,000 to micro and small businesses working on connectivity projects, five days before Innovate UK closed its larger Createch competition.
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Advanced Connectivity Technologies is an Innovate UK funding competition for connectivity technology projects, aimed specifically at micro and small businesses rather than the larger firms that tend to dominate bigger competition rounds. It opened on 15 July 2026 offering up to £500,000, with applications due by 9 September.
The scheme opened five days before Innovate UK closed Createch, its much larger £10m platform competition, evidence that the agency is running competitions at multiple ticket sizes at once rather than concentrating its calendar around a single flagship round.
Its eligibility limit to micro and small businesses marks it out from bigger Innovate UK competitions that smaller connectivity specialists would otherwise struggle to win outright.
