Our Roadmap to 2030UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £2m for feasibility projects to develop new industrial digital technologies leading to a more productive, resilient and sustainable sector.
Apply by 2 July 2025
As part of the Made Smarter Innovation Challenge (MSI), Innovate UK will invest up to £2 million in innovation projects to examine the feasibility of developing new industrial digital technologies. These are for micro, small or medium sized enterprise (SME) manufacturers to improve their energy or resource efficiency that would lead to a more productive, resilient and sustainable sector.
The aim of this competition is to examine the feasibility of developing new industrial digital technologies (IDTs). The IDTs will improve the resilience, productivity, flexibility and sustainability of UK micro, small or medium sized enterprise (SME) manufacturers by improving energy or resource efficiency.
Your project
Your project must focus on the innovation of a unique digital application relating to one or more of the energy or resource efficiencies listed in the Specific Themes section, and must be:
- affordable
- easy to use
- scalable across SMEs
There is no limit to the number of processes or technology solutions you may address in your proposal and there is no advantage in using more than one.
Energy or resource efficiency innovations that use processes other than that listed will also be considered.
Planned outputs from the study must:
- have a clear indication of how your innovation might improve energy or resource efficiency in a manufacturing environment
- clearly indicate how your innovation will result in a solution that will be sufficiently affordable, easy to use and scalable
- have technical, operational, and financial feasibility
- include potential patents
- include targeted market and scale up plans