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Innovation Grant Applications

Eligibility checks, a pipeline of funding calls, applications written to the scoring criteria, collaborative bids, and the claims, records and reports that keep an innovation grant paid in full.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

Then open the Marketplace in the app, search for Innovation Grant Applications, and click Install. It goes into your own files, and works offline from then on.

Before you start: this plan is general information to help you organise your own money decisions. It is not financial, investment, tax or legal advice. Check decisions that matter with a qualified, licensed adviser in your country, and remember that investing and trading can lose money.

What it installs.

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Pillar

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Area

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Projects

197

Starter tasks

💰 Fundraising & Investor Relations

Innovation Grant Applications

Finding and applying for government and agency grants for innovation and research and development, from eligibility checks to reporting.

  1. Innovation grant eligibility self-check
  2. Innovation funding landscape map
  3. Grant opportunity pipeline tracker
  4. One-page innovation project summary
  5. State of the art and novelty statement
  6. Grant application content library
  7. Funding portal registrations and identifiers
  8. Match funding and grant cash flow plan
  9. Go or no-go rule for grant competitions
  10. Record of public support and subsidy limits
  11. Weekly funding call scan
  12. Grant deadline and submission calendar
  13. Grant project timesheet routine
  14. Grant claims and cost reconciliation
  15. Monitoring officer meetings and progress reports
  16. Grant evidence and audit file
  17. Assessor feedback log
  18. Grant terms and conditions obligations register
  19. Annual innovation funding strategy review
  20. Post-project impact and benefits reporting
  21. Reading a competition brief and scoring guidance
  22. Writing answers to the assessor's criteria
  23. Work plan with work packages and milestones
  24. Eligible cost budget for a grant application
  25. Project risk register for grant applications
  26. Market and commercialisation case for a grant
  27. Public project summary and lay description
  28. Additionality and value for money argument
  29. Grant, R&D tax relief or equity for one project
  30. Choosing a bid writer or grant consultant
  31. Finding a research partner for a collaborative bid
  32. Lead applicant or partner decision
  33. Collaboration agreement and IP ownership terms
  34. Resubmitting an unsuccessful application
  35. Grant project change request
  36. Final week before a grant submission
  37. Grant interview or assessment panel
  38. Grant offer acceptance and project kick-off
  39. Pre-award financial checks by the funder
  40. Final project report and closing claim
  41. Grant audit or independent claim review
  42. First grant for a pre-revenue founder
  43. Grant bidding alongside running a small business
  44. Proof of concept funding for a research spinout
  45. Academic partner on an industry-led bid
  46. Phased small business research programme
  47. International innovation funds for small-economy founders
  48. Leading an international consortium bid
  49. Running several grant awards at once
  50. Innovation procurement and challenge contracts

Where it starts.

Each project arrives with its purpose, milestones and first tasks written out. Here is how the first three read.

Innovation grant eligibility self-check

Before reading a single competition brief, find out which doors are open to you. Innovation agencies test the same handful of things: where the company is registered, whether it meets the small and medium enterprise definition once linked and partner companies are counted, how long it has traded, and whether the work is genuine research and development rather than routine product building.

First tasks

  • Write down headcount, turnover and balance sheet total from the last accounts
  • List any shareholder owning 25 percent or more and check whether they count as linked or partner enterprises
  • Describe the work to be funded in two sentences and compare it with a published R&D definition
  • Email the agency helpdesk any eligibility question the guidance does not answer

Innovation funding landscape map

Public innovation money comes from more places than most founders realise: the national innovation agency, research councils, regional development bodies, sector ministries, development banks and international programmes. Mapping who funds what, at which stage and for how much, turns grant hunting from luck into a short list you can watch.

First tasks

  • Search your national innovation agency's website for every open and recurring programme
  • Ask your regional business support body which innovation funds it runs
  • Record award size, intervention rate and deadline type for each programme
  • Mark the five programmes that best fit your project and stage

Grant opportunity pipeline tracker

Funding calls open and close on their own timetables, and briefs often go live only six to eight weeks before the deadline. One tracker holding every call you are watching, with status, deadline, likely amount and the go or no-go decision, means a good competition is never discovered the week it closes.

First tasks

  • Create a tracker with funder, programme, dates, amount, fit and status columns
  • Enter every programme from the funding landscape map
  • Set a status against each call
  • Name the person who owns and updates the tracker

Make it yours.

Install Innovation Grant Applications, then tell Aurum the date you're aiming for. It checks whether the plan fits the weeks you actually have.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

Blueprints are general information to help you organise your own work. They are not medical, financial, legal or other professional advice. See the Terms.