We are the UK’s innovation agency. We accelerate business innovation for the nation by backing promising innovative businesses.
Making choices
We are choiceful about the innovative businesses we back. We look for strong potential, clear evidence of performance and a specific need we can help meet.
Focusing on sectors
We work across priority sectors aligned with the UK’s Industrial Strategy.
- Advanced Manufacturing
- Clean Energy
- Creative Industries
- Defence
- Digital and Technologies
- Life Sciences
Within these sectors, we will prioritise deep tech businesses with the potential to transform markets, create high-value jobs and become globally competitive.
Our focus on frontier technologies will also mean our work extends to Finance and Professional Services where the technologies guide us there.
Concept to commercialisation
We are the link between concept and commercialisation: connected to communities of innovators on the brink of breakthrough and to the public and private investors who can take companies to the next level.
Next steps
From April 2026, we are transforming how we work. We are recalibrating so we can provide a more joined-up, end-to-end offer designed to stay with you from proving your model to attracting serious capital.
Our ambition: when Innovate UK backs you, it changes everything.
Read Our prospectus: turning breakthrough ideas into industry giants.
Last updated: 30 March 2026