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NERC-Innovate UK ICURe Engage programme

🇬🇧 United Kingdom·Innovate UK(Government)
Funding
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Deadline
2026.09.07
29d overdue
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Overview

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Funding type: Other · Funders: Innovate UK , Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)

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Technology
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Target stage
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Project duration
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Estimated preparation
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Funding

Award size and how it is paid

Award range
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Currency
GBP
Total programme budget
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Support type
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Co-funding
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Matching fund
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Disbursement
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Note
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Eligibility

Can we actually apply?

Check whether we can applyEnter where you are incorporated, how old you are and how big — we compare it against this announcement and tell you what would unlock it. No sign-in needed.

What is Engage? NERC’s ICURe Engage is a four-week, part-time programme for those projects previously funded by NERC, to be delivered by the SETsquared Partnership, and tailored for researchers and technicians of NERC. This programme aims to identify potential beneficiaries and users of academic research, introduce participants to commercialisation tools, and foster entrepreneurship. Innovate UK’s ICURe (Innovation to Commercialisation of University Research) Programme is a nationwide programme which supports students and researchers to explore the commercial applications and potential impacts of their research. Why attend? Past participants say that having dedicated time to understanding what commercialisation of research means has dramatically changed their perspective on their research, ideas, and innovations. The programme provides the space and opportunity to consider research impact, commercialisation, and entrepreneurship. Who is eligible? This programme is open to those who have previously received NERC funding directly as an individual or been affiliated with NERC-funded programmes, for example studentships, fellowships, research grants. The NERC ICURe Engage programme is open to researchers at all levels of seniority, technicians and students from all disciplines undertaking master’s degrees, PhDs, and post-doc research. You can be based at a university, independent research organisation or one of NERC’s six centres across the UK. You should be interested in entrepreneurship. See a full list of NERC’s centres . This opportunity is available regardless of whether you already have an innovative idea, as the programme introduces you to ICURe and provides the space and opportunity to think about entrepreneurship differently. Your course of study and idea or research must be directly related to the commercialisation of NERC-funded research to solve climate adaptation challenges. It should do this by bringing new or improved technologies, processes, products and services to market to enhance UK’s climate resilience. This ensures physical and social systems are resilient and well adapted to a changing climate. This includes, but is not limited to: • food security • water supply • transport • urban design • large infrastructure resilience • community preparedness and response • physical risks for the finance sector We welcome applications from individuals in: • universities who have not participated in the ICURe programme • universities who do not receiv

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    Limited to certain organisation types

    Eligibility is restricted to specific organisation types, which may exclude an ordinary company.

Company age
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Employees
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Revenue limits
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Consortium
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Location Requirements

Geography and legal-entity conditions

Primary country
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Also eligible
None
Foreign companies
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Local entity
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Location condition
영국 소재 기관·기업(또는 영국 파트너와의 협업)이 일반적으로 요구됩니다(원문 확인 필요).

Required Documents

Required/optional · issuer · difficulty · validity · cautions

Document requirements were not captured (needs verification). Check the official announcement.

Application Process

How you apply

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Evaluation

Review process and criteria

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Timeline

Announcement → intake → review → agreement → execution

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Equity & Financial Terms

Equity, loans and contract conditions

Equity required
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Loan
Non-dilutive grant
Duplicate funding
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IP ownership
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Deliverable ownership
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Exclusivity
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Right of first refusal
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Audit & settlement
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Risk Intelligence

Should we apply at all? — five dimensions plus an overall score (lower is safer)

Overall: Not assessable (insufficient data)
Eligibility risk33

Chance of failing eligibility, location or legal-entity rules

Financial risk36

Co-funding, matching funds, reimbursement and loan exposure

Execution risk22

Paperwork load, timeline pressure, reporting and audit duties

Contract risk27

Exclusivity, right of first refusal, duplicate-funding limits

IP & idea exposure riskNeeds verification

How much technical detail you must hand over, and who owns it

Key risk factors
  • 10
    Own contribution not stated· evidence needs verification

    R&D and pilot programmes commonly require one. Confirm the ratio.

  • 10
    Required documents not collected· evidence needs verification

    The list of required documents was not collected.

  • 8
    Local-entity requirement not stated· evidence needs verification

    The announcement does not say whether a local entity is required.

  • 8
    Payment timing not stated· evidence needs verification

    Advance versus reimbursement makes a large difference to cash flow.

  • 7
    Overseas eligibility not stated· evidence needs verification

    Whether an overseas company may take part has to be confirmed.

  • 7
    Exclusivity not stated· evidence needs verification

    Any exclusivity clause has to be checked.

  • 6
    Award size not stated· evidence needs verification

    The announcement does not state how much is available.

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    Right of first refusal not stated· evidence needs verification

    Any right-of-first-refusal clause has to be checked.

16 item(s) need verification
  • · The list of required documents was not collected — check the announcement for what technical material must be submitted.
  • · Whether an NDA can be signed is not stated (needs verification).
  • · IP ownership terms are not stated (needs verification).
  • · Ownership of the deliverables is not stated (needs verification).
  • · Data-rights terms are not stated (needs verification).
  • · How submitted material may be reused is not stated (needs verification).
  • · Whether an exclusivity clause applies is not stated (needs verification).
  • · Whether a right of first refusal applies is not stated (needs verification).
  • · Whether a local entity is required is not stated (needs verification).
  • · Whether an overseas company may apply is not stated (needs verification).
  • · The required own-contribution ratio is not stated (needs verification).
  • · Whether a matching fund is required is not stated (needs verification).
  • · Whether payment is in advance or in arrears is not stated (needs verification).
  • · The level of settlement and audit obligation is not stated (needs verification).
  • · The award size is not stated (needs verification).
  • · The duplicate-support rule is not stated (needs verification).

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IP / Idea Protection

How much of your technology and idea you must disclose

Required documents unknown

The announcement does not say what has to be submitted, so the disclosure exposure cannot be judged. the scope of the material requested is not stated. The awarding body is Innovate UK. 8 fields could not be read and must be checked in the announcement and the grant agreement.

NDA
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IP ownership
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Deliverable ownership
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Data rights
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Disclosure depth
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File patent first?
Not applicable
Reuse of submissions
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Publicity obligation
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Exposure score
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Safe to disclose
  • · The problem your product solves, and the market definition
  • · Your value proposition and quantified results (improvement rates, throughput)
  • · Anything already public: granted patents, papers, press coverage
  • · Team composition, capabilities and a summary of past delivery
  • · Architecture-level diagrams at module granularity, without internal implementation
Keep to a minimum
  • · Core algorithms: formulae, hyper-parameters and pre-processing rules
  • · Raw training data and the details of your collection pipeline
  • · Full source code and build or deployment scripts
  • · Cost structure and unit-price formulae
  • · Named customers, contract terms and pricing
  • · How an unfiled invention is actually implemented
Recommended actions
  • HIGHPoC/공동개발 IP 귀속 조항 확인

    공동개발 산출물의 지분·개선발명(improvement) 귀속·배경지식(background IP) 분리 조항을 협약서에서 확인하십시오.

  • MEDIUMRequest an NDA

    Ask in writing for a mutual NDA before submitting detailed technical material; if it is refused, keep what you submit at summary level.

4 evidence item(s) from the source
  • UNKNOWN

    No document list was collected, so the exposure of technical material cannot be judged.

    Source link
  • UNKNOWN

    No NDA clause could be found.

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  • UNKNOWN

    IP ownership terms could not be found.

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  • UNKNOWN

    Ownership of the deliverables terms could not be found.

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Needs verification (8)
  • · The list of required documents was not collected — check the announcement for what technical material must be submitted.
  • · Whether an NDA can be signed is not stated (needs verification).
  • · IP ownership terms are not stated (needs verification).
  • · Ownership of the deliverables is not stated (needs verification).
  • · Data-rights terms are not stated (needs verification).
  • · How submitted material may be reused is not stated (needs verification).
  • · Whether an exclusivity clause applies is not stated (needs verification).
  • · Whether a right of first refusal applies is not stated (needs verification).

This assessment is derived from the stored announcement, document and contract fields. Anything the source does not state is marked "needs verification" — it never asserts that your idea will be taken. Generated by local:rules-v1 · 2d ago

AI Analysis

Pros · cons · difficulty · competition · attractiveness

Preparation difficultyNeeds verification

From paperwork and review stages

Competition (estimate)41

Heuristic from award size and type

Attractiveness46

Amount, terms and IP combined

Overall riskNeeds verification

Weighted average of five dimensions

Pros
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Cons
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Cautions
  • Nothing flagged

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Official URL
https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/nerc-innovate-uk-icure-engage-programme/
Application URL
https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/nerc-innovate-uk-icure-engage-programme/
Last fetched
2026.09.07
Human review
Not reviewed — check the official announcement
First seen
2026.08.21
Data status
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AI enrichment
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Snapshot history
  • · 2026.08.25 — 변경 감지되어 갱신 (7b5c2e74)
  • · 2026.08.21 — 최초 수집 (7bf3aa3e)