Analysis for Innovators

Gain access to world-leading experts and cutting-edge facilities, techniques and technologies to solve an existing analysis or measurement problem facing your business.

About A4I

Analysis for Innovators can help boost productivity and competitiveness in your business through solving existing problems.

A4I is a programme that gives UK businesses of any size access to cutting-edge R&D expertise and facilities to help solve problems that they have been unable to tackle using standard technologies and techniques. It might be around product reliability, cost or product lifetime.

Details of Round 5 are now announced:
A4I Round 5: phase 1 expression of interest (de minimis)
A4I Round 5: phase 1 expression of interest

A4I Programme

Impact

VIEW FUNDED PROJECTS

205Successful EOIs
303Brokerage Meetings
121Projects Funded
£12.2 millionProject Costs
£8.5 millionGovernment Contributions
£3.7 millionCompany Contributions

Case Studies

MORE CASE STUDIES

Sistemic

Supporting the development of a novel product to ensure the safety of cell therapy treatments

Cell therapies, where living cells are transplanted in to a patient, are seen as the future of treatment in a number of therapeutic areas including diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

Lean Manufacturing & Assembly Technologies

Measuring how much materials shrink during manufacture

National Physics Laboratory measurements improve model used to ensure that composite aircraft structures and wind turbine blades meet design specifications.