UK-registered micro and small businesses can apply for funding from Innovate UK for activities that support innovation in the marine and maritime cluster within the Great South West. The initiative aims to help businesses develop affordable, adoptable and investable innovations that contribute to economic growth in the Great South West, which includes Cornwall and Isles of Scilly, Devon, Somerset and Dorset.
Your project must focus on one or more of the following:
- marine autonomy
- clean maritime
- digital ocean technologies
The funding is for innovative businesses with new products, processes or services that are significantly ahead of others currently available, or with an innovative way of using existing products, processes or services.
You can apply for between £25,000 and £50,000: your total project costs must equal your grant funding request (projects costing more than £50,000 are not eligible). Projects need to start after 1 October 2025 and end by 31 May 2026.
Focus of fund/fund aims:
Grants for innovation in the marine and maritime sector in the Great South West
Application deadline:
2 July 2025