Createch
Innovate UK industrial research competition for commercial digital platforms.
Createch closed to applications on 20 July 2026, offering a share of up to £10m for commercial digital platforms, the same week Innovate UK opened a second scheme five days its junior.
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What did Createch offer UK digital platform businesses before closing?
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Createch is Innovate UK's industrial research competition for commercial digital platforms, run under the agency's regular calendar of grant rounds. It closed to applications on 20 July 2026 with a share of up to £10m on offer, targeting projects with a clear route to market rather than early-stage discovery work.
The closure landed in the same week Innovate UK opened Advanced Connectivity Technologies, a FAR smaller £500,000 scheme for micro and small businesses, evidence that the agency kept a predictable competition calendar running even as it moved in April 2026 to a portfolio-management model in place of open competitions generally.
For applicants, Createch sits at the larger end of Innovate UK's grant ladder: a nine-figure ceiling aimed at platforms ready to scale commercially, rather than the smaller, earlier-stage tickets the agency runs alongside it.
