Innovate UK Funding

Innovate UK is part of UK Research and Innovation. It is focused on helping UK businesses develop through innovation, the new products, services, and processes they need to grow and scale up. It supports innovative ideas and business growth through tailored support, grant funding, and loans or procurements.

About this data

Access to Innovate UK Funding 2004-2023 by Local Authority

Key findings

Since 2004, the organisations that were awarded the most number of Innovate UK grants were UK Universities and Rolls Royce. Although, Rolls Royce has not been in the top 20 for number of grants awarded by Innovate UK since 2019.

However, the high percentage of the business base receiving funding in Cambridge and Oxford is not solely due to their university presence, but a high concentration of nearby STEM companies completing innovative work. Example companies are: ARM and NIAB in Cambridge; Amgen and TWI in South Cambridgeshire; the Vaccines Manufacturing and Innovation Centre and Oxa in Oxford; Satellite Applications Catapult and The Faraday Institution in Vale of White Horse.

Orkney stands out as a region that has received a large amount of funding, particularly for the renewable energy sector. This funding was concentrated in fewer, larger, rounds. Example companies include Orbital Marine Power and The European Marine Energy Centre.

Key companies like Inventya and the Hartree Centre contributed to Halton's high percentage of Innnovate UK funding.

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Hexmap Aberdeen City
Funded Businesses: 132
Percentage of Business Base : 0.93%
Aberdeenshire
Funded Businesses: 66
Percentage of Business Base : 0.54%
Adur
Funded Businesses: 17
Percentage of Business Base : 0.38%
Amber Valley
Funded Businesses: 37
Percentage of Business Base : 0.54%
Angus
Funded Businesses: 22
Percentage of Business Base : 0.51%
Antrim and Newtownabbey
Funded Businesses: 29
Percentage of Business Base : 0.58%
Ards and North Down
Funded Businesses: 25
Percentage of Business Base : 0.41%
Argyll and Bute
Funded Businesses: 24
Percentage of Business Base : 0.67%
Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon
Funded Businesses: 39
Percentage of Business Base : 0.47%
Arun
Funded Businesses: 31
Percentage of Business Base : 0.38%
Ashfield
Funded Businesses: 19
Percentage of Business Base : 0.41%
Ashford
Funded Businesses: 34
Percentage of Business Base : 0.31%
Babergh
Funded Businesses: 19
Percentage of Business Base : 0.34%
Barking and Dagenham
Funded Businesses: 10
Percentage of Business Base : 0.04%
Barnet
Funded Businesses: 119
Percentage of Business Base : 0.15%
Barnsley
Funded Businesses: 38
Percentage of Business Base : 0.35%
Basildon
Funded Businesses: 29
Percentage of Business Base : 0.18%
Basingstoke and Deane
Funded Businesses: 73
Percentage of Business Base : 0.72%
Bassetlaw
Funded Businesses: 23
Percentage of Business Base : 0.39%
Bath and North East Somerset
Funded Businesses: 127
Percentage of Business Base : 0.89%
Bedford
Funded Businesses: 46
Percentage of Business Base : 0.32%
Belfast
Funded Businesses: 213
Percentage of Business Base : 0.81%
Bexley
Funded Businesses: 18
Percentage of Business Base : 0.08%
Birmingham
Funded Businesses: 342
Percentage of Business Base : 0.32%
Blaby
Funded Businesses: 37
Percentage of Business Base : 0.47%
Blackburn with Darwen
Funded Businesses: 82
Percentage of Business Base : 0.72%
Blackpool
Funded Businesses: 11
Percentage of Business Base : 0.15%
Blaenau Gwent
Funded Businesses: 10
Percentage of Business Base : 0.55%
Bolsover
Funded Businesses: 31
Percentage of Business Base : 0.95%
Bolton
Funded Businesses: 50
Percentage of Business Base : 0.19%
Boston
Funded Businesses: 13
Percentage of Business Base : 0.43%
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
Funded Businesses: 99
Percentage of Business Base : 0.3%
Bracknell Forest
Funded Businesses: 47
Percentage of Business Base : 0.62%
Bradford
Funded Businesses: 88
Percentage of Business Base : 0.26%
Braintree
Funded Businesses: 26
Percentage of Business Base : 0.25%
Breckland
Funded Businesses: 25
Percentage of Business Base : 0.39%
Brent
Funded Businesses: 65
Percentage of Business Base : 0.18%
Brentwood
Funded Businesses: 15
Percentage of Business Base : 0.16%
Bridgend
Funded Businesses: 44
Percentage of Business Base : 0.67%
Brighton and Hove
Funded Businesses: 161
Percentage of Business Base : 0.49%
Bristol, City of
Funded Businesses: 383
Percentage of Business Base : 1.04%
Broadland
Funded Businesses: 26
Percentage of Business Base : 0.37%
Bromley
Funded Businesses: 39
Percentage of Business Base : 0.13%
Bromsgrove
Funded Businesses: 27
Percentage of Business Base : 0.31%
Broxbourne
Funded Businesses: 15
Percentage of Business Base : 0.14%
Broxtowe
Funded Businesses: 36
Percentage of Business Base : 0.62%
Buckinghamshire
Funded Businesses: 233
Percentage of Business Base : 0.43%
Burnley
Funded Businesses: 21
Percentage of Business Base : 0.4%
Bury
Funded Businesses: 46
Percentage of Business Base : 0.21%
Caerphilly
Funded Businesses: 29
Percentage of Business Base : 0.53%
Calderdale
Funded Businesses: 52
Percentage of Business Base : 0.34%
Cambridge
Funded Businesses: 378
Percentage of Business Base : 3.2%
Camden
Funded Businesses: 607
Percentage of Business Base : 0.34%
Cannock Chase
Funded Businesses: 14
Percentage of Business Base : 0.24%
Canterbury
Funded Businesses: 41
Percentage of Business Base : 0.39%
Cardiff
Funded Businesses: 160
Percentage of Business Base : 0.22%
Carmarthenshire
Funded Businesses: 41
Percentage of Business Base : 0.51%
Castle Point
Funded Businesses: 7
Percentage of Business Base : 0.1%
Causeway Coast and Glens
Funded Businesses: 22
Percentage of Business Base : 0.42%
Central Bedfordshire
Funded Businesses: 96
Percentage of Business Base : 0.49%
Ceredigion
Funded Businesses: 26
Percentage of Business Base : 0.89%
Charnwood
Funded Businesses: 94
Percentage of Business Base : 0.84%
Chelmsford
Funded Businesses: 41
Percentage of Business Base : 0.27%
Cheltenham
Funded Businesses: 64
Percentage of Business Base : 0.6%
Cherwell
Funded Businesses: 120
Percentage of Business Base : 1.03%
Cheshire East
Funded Businesses: 185
Percentage of Business Base : 0.55%
Cheshire West and Chester
Funded Businesses: 121
Percentage of Business Base : 0.54%
Chesterfield
Funded Businesses: 47
Percentage of Business Base : 0.82%
Chichester
Funded Businesses: 54
Percentage of Business Base : 0.52%
Chorley
Funded Businesses: 19
Percentage of Business Base : 0.2%
City of Edinburgh
Funded Businesses: 393
Percentage of Business Base : 0.65%
City of London
Funded Businesses: 457
Percentage of Business Base : 0.67%
Clackmannanshire
Funded Businesses: 6
Percentage of Business Base : 0.42%
Colchester
Funded Businesses: 48
Percentage of Business Base : 0.33%
Conwy
Funded Businesses: 16
Percentage of Business Base : 0.32%
Cornwall
Funded Businesses: 181
Percentage of Business Base : 0.65%
Cotswold
Funded Businesses: 55
Percentage of Business Base : 0.7%
County Durham
Funded Businesses: 140
Percentage of Business Base : 0.7%
Coventry
Funded Businesses: 171
Percentage of Business Base : 0.57%
Crawley
Funded Businesses: 30
Percentage of Business Base : 0.45%
Croydon
Funded Businesses: 53
Percentage of Business Base : 0.11%
Cumberland
Funded Businesses: 49
Percentage of Business Base : 0.4%
Dacorum
Funded Businesses: 60
Percentage of Business Base : 0.42%
Darlington
Funded Businesses: 16
Percentage of Business Base : 0.26%
Dartford
Funded Businesses: 12
Percentage of Business Base : 0.1%
Denbighshire
Funded Businesses: 26
Percentage of Business Base : 0.51%
Derby
Funded Businesses: 105
Percentage of Business Base : 0.58%
Derbyshire Dales
Funded Businesses: 31
Percentage of Business Base : 0.62%
Derry City and Strabane
Funded Businesses: 26
Percentage of Business Base : 0.39%
Doncaster
Funded Businesses: 44
Percentage of Business Base : 0.24%
Dorset
Funded Businesses: 94
Percentage of Business Base : 0.3%
Dover
Funded Businesses: 24
Percentage of Business Base : 0.41%
Dudley
Funded Businesses: 61
Percentage of Business Base : 0.28%
Dumfries and Galloway
Funded Businesses: 16
Percentage of Business Base : 0.38%
Dundee City
Funded Businesses: 57
Percentage of Business Base : 0.59%
Ealing
Funded Businesses: 79
Percentage of Business Base : 0.18%
East Ayrshire
Funded Businesses: 14
Percentage of Business Base : 0.32%
East Cambridgeshire
Funded Businesses: 57
Percentage of Business Base : 1.15%
East Devon
Funded Businesses: 41
Percentage of Business Base : 0.47%
East Dunbartonshire
Funded Businesses: 11
Percentage of Business Base : 0.28%
East Hampshire
Funded Businesses: 45
Percentage of Business Base : 0.42%
East Hertfordshire
Funded Businesses: 30
Percentage of Business Base : 0.22%
East Lindsey
Funded Businesses: 24
Percentage of Business Base : 0.42%
East Lothian
Funded Businesses: 28
Percentage of Business Base : 0.69%
East Renfrewshire
Funded Businesses: 8
Percentage of Business Base : 0.18%
East Riding of Yorkshire
Funded Businesses: 75
Percentage of Business Base : 0.39%
East Staffordshire
Funded Businesses: 28
Percentage of Business Base : 0.35%
East Suffolk
Funded Businesses: 66
Percentage of Business Base : 0.55%
Eastbourne
Funded Businesses: 16
Percentage of Business Base : 0.2%
Eastleigh
Funded Businesses: 51
Percentage of Business Base : 0.47%
Elmbridge
Funded Businesses: 55
Percentage of Business Base : 0.34%
Enfield
Funded Businesses: 47
Percentage of Business Base : 0.11%
Epping Forest
Funded Businesses: 28
Percentage of Business Base : 0.17%
Epsom and Ewell
Funded Businesses: 9
Percentage of Business Base : 0.13%
Erewash
Funded Businesses: 26
Percentage of Business Base : 0.34%
Exeter
Funded Businesses: 80
Percentage of Business Base : 0.85%
Falkirk
Funded Businesses: 14
Percentage of Business Base : 0.25%
Fareham
Funded Businesses: 43
Percentage of Business Base : 0.55%
Fenland
Funded Businesses: 19
Percentage of Business Base : 0.4%
Fermanagh and Omagh
Funded Businesses: 14
Percentage of Business Base : 0.25%
Fife
Funded Businesses: 74
Percentage of Business Base : 0.56%
Flintshire
Funded Businesses: 66
Percentage of Business Base : 0.94%
Folkestone and Hythe
Funded Businesses: 10
Percentage of Business Base : 0.14%
Forest of Dean
Funded Businesses: 30
Percentage of Business Base : 0.68%
Fylde
Funded Businesses: 17
Percentage of Business Base : 0.2%
Gateshead
Funded Businesses: 70
Percentage of Business Base : 0.63%
Gedling
Funded Businesses: 20
Percentage of Business Base : 0.35%
Glasgow City
Funded Businesses: 338
Percentage of Business Base : 0.61%
Gloucester
Funded Businesses: 27
Percentage of Business Base : 0.37%
Gosport
Funded Businesses: 9
Percentage of Business Base : 0.32%
Gravesham
Funded Businesses: 6
Percentage of Business Base : 0.07%
Great Yarmouth
Funded Businesses: 17
Percentage of Business Base : 0.39%
Greenwich
Funded Businesses: 52
Percentage of Business Base : 0.21%
Guildford
Funded Businesses: 156
Percentage of Business Base : 1.32%
Gwynedd
Funded Businesses: 49
Percentage of Business Base : 1%
Hackney
Funded Businesses: 372
Percentage of Business Base : 0.35%
Halton
Funded Businesses: 101
Percentage of Business Base : 1.74%
Hammersmith and Fulham
Funded Businesses: 166
Percentage of Business Base : 0.5%
Harborough
Funded Businesses: 41
Percentage of Business Base : 0.45%
Haringey
Funded Businesses: 65
Percentage of Business Base : 0.2%
Harlow
Funded Businesses: 17
Percentage of Business Base : 0.2%
Harrow
Funded Businesses: 54
Percentage of Business Base : 0.11%
Hart
Funded Businesses: 44
Percentage of Business Base : 0.66%
Hartlepool
Funded Businesses: 15
Percentage of Business Base : 0.41%
Hastings
Funded Businesses: 15
Percentage of Business Base : 0.32%
Havant
Funded Businesses: 31
Percentage of Business Base : 0.34%
Havering
Funded Businesses: 21
Percentage of Business Base : 0.09%
Herefordshire, County of
Funded Businesses: 55
Percentage of Business Base : 0.32%
Hertsmere
Funded Businesses: 36
Percentage of Business Base : 0.19%
High Peak
Funded Businesses: 26
Percentage of Business Base : 0.49%
Highland
Funded Businesses: 51
Percentage of Business Base : 0.45%
Hillingdon
Funded Businesses: 89
Percentage of Business Base : 0.23%
Hinckley and Bosworth
Funded Businesses: 33
Percentage of Business Base : 0.53%
Horsham
Funded Businesses: 65
Percentage of Business Base : 0.6%
Hounslow
Funded Businesses: 65
Percentage of Business Base : 0.22%
Huntingdonshire
Funded Businesses: 75
Percentage of Business Base : 0.62%
Hyndburn
Funded Businesses: 14
Percentage of Business Base : 0.32%
Inverclyde
Funded Businesses: 8
Percentage of Business Base : 0.32%
Ipswich
Funded Businesses: 17
Percentage of Business Base : 0.17%
Isle of Anglesey
Funded Businesses: 26
Percentage of Business Base : 1.12%
Isle of Wight
Funded Businesses: 39
Percentage of Business Base : 0.58%
Isles of Scilly
Funded Businesses: 5
Percentage of Business Base : 5.81%
Islington
Funded Businesses: 445
Percentage of Business Base : 0.44%
Kensington and Chelsea
Funded Businesses: 112
Percentage of Business Base : 0.46%
King's Lynn and West Norfolk
Funded Businesses: 28
Percentage of Business Base : 0.41%
Kingston upon Hull, City of
Funded Businesses: 51
Percentage of Business Base : 0.42%
Kingston upon Thames
Funded Businesses: 58
Percentage of Business Base : 0.37%
Kirklees
Funded Businesses: 88
Percentage of Business Base : 0.31%
Knowsley
Funded Businesses: 21
Percentage of Business Base : 0.32%
Lambeth
Funded Businesses: 182
Percentage of Business Base : 0.65%
Lancaster
Funded Businesses: 61
Percentage of Business Base : 0.89%
Leeds
Funded Businesses: 270
Percentage of Business Base : 0.43%
Leicester
Funded Businesses: 91
Percentage of Business Base : 0.29%
Lewes
Funded Businesses: 42
Percentage of Business Base : 0.75%
Lewisham
Funded Businesses: 56
Percentage of Business Base : 0.28%
Lichfield
Funded Businesses: 35
Percentage of Business Base : 0.38%
Lincoln
Funded Businesses: 33
Percentage of Business Base : 0.59%
Lisburn and Castlereagh
Funded Businesses: 48
Percentage of Business Base : 0.74%
Liverpool
Funded Businesses: 190
Percentage of Business Base : 0.49%
Luton
Funded Businesses: 35
Percentage of Business Base : 0.16%
Maidstone
Funded Businesses: 44
Percentage of Business Base : 0.32%
Maldon
Funded Businesses: 22
Percentage of Business Base : 0.42%
Malvern Hills
Funded Businesses: 62
Percentage of Business Base : 1.15%
Manchester
Funded Businesses: 357
Percentage of Business Base : 0.51%
Mansfield
Funded Businesses: 8
Percentage of Business Base : 0.12%
Medway
Funded Businesses: 29
Percentage of Business Base : 0.15%
Melton
Funded Businesses: 24
Percentage of Business Base : 0.84%
Merthyr Tydfil
Funded Businesses: 2
Percentage of Business Base : 0.11%
Merton
Funded Businesses: 54
Percentage of Business Base : 0.2%
Mid Devon
Funded Businesses: 18
Percentage of Business Base : 0.42%
Mid Suffolk
Funded Businesses: 33
Percentage of Business Base : 0.53%
Mid Sussex
Funded Businesses: 27
Percentage of Business Base : 0.22%
Mid Ulster
Funded Businesses: 52
Percentage of Business Base : 0.75%
Mid and East Antrim
Funded Businesses: 34
Percentage of Business Base : 0.72%
Middlesbrough
Funded Businesses: 43
Percentage of Business Base : 0.55%
Midlothian
Funded Businesses: 47
Percentage of Business Base : 1.27%
Milton Keynes
Funded Businesses: 135
Percentage of Business Base : 0.47%
Mole Valley
Funded Businesses: 39
Percentage of Business Base : 0.46%
Monmouthshire
Funded Businesses: 29
Percentage of Business Base : 0.54%
Moray
Funded Businesses: 21
Percentage of Business Base : 0.64%
Na h-Eileanan Siar
Funded Businesses: 6
Percentage of Business Base : 0.51%
Neath Port Talbot
Funded Businesses: 32
Percentage of Business Base : 0.69%
New Forest
Funded Businesses: 50
Percentage of Business Base : 0.38%
Newark and Sherwood
Funded Businesses: 37
Percentage of Business Base : 0.63%
Newcastle upon Tyne
Funded Businesses: 193
Percentage of Business Base : 1.01%
Newcastle-under-Lyme
Funded Businesses: 33
Percentage of Business Base : 0.51%
Newham
Funded Businesses: 59
Percentage of Business Base : 0.13%
Newport
Funded Businesses: 47
Percentage of Business Base : 0.53%
Newry, Mourne and Down
Funded Businesses: 42
Percentage of Business Base : 0.41%
North Ayrshire
Funded Businesses: 15
Percentage of Business Base : 0.4%
North Devon
Funded Businesses: 20
Percentage of Business Base : 0.41%
North East Derbyshire
Funded Businesses: 17
Percentage of Business Base : 0.4%
North East Lincolnshire
Funded Businesses: 29
Percentage of Business Base : 0.3%
North Hertfordshire
Funded Businesses: 60
Percentage of Business Base : 0.55%
North Kesteven
Funded Businesses: 31
Percentage of Business Base : 0.59%
North Lanarkshire
Funded Businesses: 59
Percentage of Business Base : 0.47%
North Lincolnshire
Funded Businesses: 35
Percentage of Business Base : 0.44%
North Norfolk
Funded Businesses: 21
Percentage of Business Base : 0.48%
North Northamptonshire
Funded Businesses: 62
Percentage of Business Base : 0.27%
North Somerset
Funded Businesses: 74
Percentage of Business Base : 0.51%
North Tyneside
Funded Businesses: 63
Percentage of Business Base : 0.65%
North Warwickshire
Funded Businesses: 21
Percentage of Business Base : 0.56%
North West Leicestershire
Funded Businesses: 46
Percentage of Business Base : 0.63%
North Yorkshire
Funded Businesses: 182
Percentage of Business Base : 0.45%
Northumberland
Funded Businesses: 85
Percentage of Business Base : 0.62%
Norwich
Funded Businesses: 54
Percentage of Business Base : 0.37%
Nottingham
Funded Businesses: 194
Percentage of Business Base : 0.81%
Nuneaton and Bedworth
Funded Businesses: 23
Percentage of Business Base : 0.36%
Oadby and Wigston
Funded Businesses: 5
Percentage of Business Base : 0.13%
Oldham
Funded Businesses: 30
Percentage of Business Base : 0.17%
Orkney Islands
Funded Businesses: 17
Percentage of Business Base : 2.02%
Oxford
Funded Businesses: 243
Percentage of Business Base : 2.61%
Pembrokeshire
Funded Businesses: 21
Percentage of Business Base : 0.33%
Pendle
Funded Businesses: 22
Percentage of Business Base : 0.4%
Perth and Kinross
Funded Businesses: 55
Percentage of Business Base : 0.85%
Peterborough
Funded Businesses: 65
Percentage of Business Base : 0.42%
Plymouth
Funded Businesses: 51
Percentage of Business Base : 0.43%
Portsmouth
Funded Businesses: 49
Percentage of Business Base : 0.38%
Powys
Funded Businesses: 35
Percentage of Business Base : 0.57%
Preston
Funded Businesses: 53
Percentage of Business Base : 0.39%
Reading
Funded Businesses: 77
Percentage of Business Base : 0.57%
Redbridge
Funded Businesses: 22
Percentage of Business Base : 0.05%
Redcar and Cleveland
Funded Businesses: 54
Percentage of Business Base : 1.19%
Redditch
Funded Businesses: 20
Percentage of Business Base : 0.37%
Reigate and Banstead
Funded Businesses: 45
Percentage of Business Base : 0.37%
Renfrewshire
Funded Businesses: 55
Percentage of Business Base : 0.66%
Rhondda Cynon Taf
Funded Businesses: 43
Percentage of Business Base : 0.52%
Ribble Valley
Funded Businesses: 10
Percentage of Business Base : 0.22%
Richmond upon Thames
Funded Businesses: 102
Percentage of Business Base : 0.46%
Rochdale
Funded Businesses: 33
Percentage of Business Base : 0.24%
Rochford
Funded Businesses: 13
Percentage of Business Base : 0.21%
Rossendale
Funded Businesses: 20
Percentage of Business Base : 0.56%
Rother
Funded Businesses: 12
Percentage of Business Base : 0.15%
Rotherham
Funded Businesses: 70
Percentage of Business Base : 0.55%
Rugby
Funded Businesses: 58
Percentage of Business Base : 0.72%
Runnymede
Funded Businesses: 44
Percentage of Business Base : 0.53%
Rushcliffe
Funded Businesses: 41
Percentage of Business Base : 0.5%
Rushmoor
Funded Businesses: 52
Percentage of Business Base : 0.81%
Rutland
Funded Businesses: 15
Percentage of Business Base : 0.67%
Salford
Funded Businesses: 85
Percentage of Business Base : 0.37%
Sandwell
Funded Businesses: 61
Percentage of Business Base : 0.27%
Scottish Borders
Funded Businesses: 21
Percentage of Business Base : 0.46%
Sefton
Funded Businesses: 30
Percentage of Business Base : 0.19%
Sevenoaks
Funded Businesses: 35
Percentage of Business Base : 0.26%
Sheffield
Funded Businesses: 276
Percentage of Business Base : 0.81%
Shetland Islands
Funded Businesses: 6
Percentage of Business Base : 0.47%
Shropshire
Funded Businesses: 76
Percentage of Business Base : 0.4%
Slough
Funded Businesses: 34
Percentage of Business Base : 0.22%
Solihull
Funded Businesses: 76
Percentage of Business Base : 0.43%
Somerset
Funded Businesses: 148
Percentage of Business Base : 0.45%
South Ayrshire
Funded Businesses: 25
Percentage of Business Base : 0.46%
South Cambridgeshire
Funded Businesses: 354
Percentage of Business Base : 2.56%
South Derbyshire
Funded Businesses: 23
Percentage of Business Base : 0.47%
South Gloucestershire
Funded Businesses: 148
Percentage of Business Base : 0.85%
South Hams
Funded Businesses: 38
Percentage of Business Base : 0.67%
South Holland
Funded Businesses: 29
Percentage of Business Base : 0.48%
South Kesteven
Funded Businesses: 52
Percentage of Business Base : 0.54%
South Lanarkshire
Funded Businesses: 70
Percentage of Business Base : 0.37%
South Norfolk
Funded Businesses: 49
Percentage of Business Base : 0.71%
South Oxfordshire
Funded Businesses: 115
Percentage of Business Base : 1.01%
South Ribble
Funded Businesses: 34
Percentage of Business Base : 0.55%
South Staffordshire
Funded Businesses: 14
Percentage of Business Base : 0.25%
South Tyneside
Funded Businesses: 16
Percentage of Business Base : 0.28%
Southampton
Funded Businesses: 98
Percentage of Business Base : 0.64%
Southend-on-Sea
Funded Businesses: 20
Percentage of Business Base : 0.1%
Southwark
Funded Businesses: 285
Percentage of Business Base : 0.78%
Spelthorne
Funded Businesses: 30
Percentage of Business Base : 0.35%
St Albans
Funded Businesses: 77
Percentage of Business Base : 0.48%
St. Helens
Funded Businesses: 21
Percentage of Business Base : 0.28%
Stafford
Funded Businesses: 33
Percentage of Business Base : 0.44%
Staffordshire Moorlands
Funded Businesses: 15
Percentage of Business Base : 0.4%
Stevenage
Funded Businesses: 49
Percentage of Business Base : 0.63%
Stirling
Funded Businesses: 43
Percentage of Business Base : 0.87%
Stockport
Funded Businesses: 86
Percentage of Business Base : 0.33%
Stockton-on-Tees
Funded Businesses: 61
Percentage of Business Base : 0.51%
Stoke-on-Trent
Funded Businesses: 59
Percentage of Business Base : 0.45%
Stratford-on-Avon
Funded Businesses: 68
Percentage of Business Base : 0.55%
Stroud
Funded Businesses: 60
Percentage of Business Base : 0.8%
Sunderland
Funded Businesses: 85
Percentage of Business Base : 0.85%
Surrey Heath
Funded Businesses: 54
Percentage of Business Base : 0.66%
Sutton
Funded Businesses: 32
Percentage of Business Base : 0.19%
Swale
Funded Businesses: 36
Percentage of Business Base : 0.46%
Swansea
Funded Businesses: 75
Percentage of Business Base : 0.57%
Swindon
Funded Businesses: 68
Percentage of Business Base : 0.53%
Tameside
Funded Businesses: 33
Percentage of Business Base : 0.28%
Tamworth
Funded Businesses: 21
Percentage of Business Base : 0.52%
Tandridge
Funded Businesses: 20
Percentage of Business Base : 0.23%
Teignbridge
Funded Businesses: 31
Percentage of Business Base : 0.39%
Telford and Wrekin
Funded Businesses: 52
Percentage of Business Base : 0.54%
Tendring
Funded Businesses: 13
Percentage of Business Base : 0.19%
Test Valley
Funded Businesses: 106
Percentage of Business Base : 1.26%
Tewkesbury
Funded Businesses: 47
Percentage of Business Base : 0.67%
Thanet
Funded Businesses: 13
Percentage of Business Base : 0.15%
Three Rivers
Funded Businesses: 39
Percentage of Business Base : 0.36%
Thurrock
Funded Businesses: 9
Percentage of Business Base : 0.06%
Tonbridge and Malling
Funded Businesses: 39
Percentage of Business Base : 0.32%
Torbay
Funded Businesses: 28
Percentage of Business Base : 0.4%
Torfaen
Funded Businesses: 15
Percentage of Business Base : 0.45%
Torridge
Funded Businesses: 18
Percentage of Business Base : 0.62%
Tower Hamlets
Funded Businesses: 294
Percentage of Business Base : 0.57%
Trafford
Funded Businesses: 95
Percentage of Business Base : 0.35%
Tunbridge Wells
Funded Businesses: 34
Percentage of Business Base : 0.32%
Uttlesford
Funded Businesses: 46
Percentage of Business Base : 0.53%
Vale of Glamorgan
Funded Businesses: 24
Percentage of Business Base : 0.33%
Vale of White Horse
Funded Businesses: 231
Percentage of Business Base : 2.59%
Wakefield
Funded Businesses: 52
Percentage of Business Base : 0.31%
Walsall
Funded Businesses: 36
Percentage of Business Base : 0.21%
Waltham Forest
Funded Businesses: 29
Percentage of Business Base : 0.1%
Wandsworth
Funded Businesses: 120
Percentage of Business Base : 0.43%
Warrington
Funded Businesses: 72
Percentage of Business Base : 0.32%
Warwick
Funded Businesses: 136
Percentage of Business Base : 0.97%
Watford
Funded Businesses: 20
Percentage of Business Base : 0.15%
Waverley
Funded Businesses: 58
Percentage of Business Base : 0.47%
Wealden
Funded Businesses: 40
Percentage of Business Base : 0.3%
Welwyn Hatfield
Funded Businesses: 58
Percentage of Business Base : 0.61%
West Berkshire
Funded Businesses: 88
Percentage of Business Base : 0.68%
West Devon
Funded Businesses: 6
Percentage of Business Base : 0.24%
West Dunbartonshire
Funded Businesses: 14
Percentage of Business Base : 0.51%
West Lancashire
Funded Businesses: 31
Percentage of Business Base : 0.46%
West Lindsey
Funded Businesses: 29
Percentage of Business Base : 0.59%
West Lothian
Funded Businesses: 48
Percentage of Business Base : 0.72%
West Northamptonshire
Funded Businesses: 119
Percentage of Business Base : 0.35%
West Oxfordshire
Funded Businesses: 57
Percentage of Business Base : 0.64%
West Suffolk
Funded Businesses: 59
Percentage of Business Base : 0.29%
Westminster
Funded Businesses: 784
Percentage of Business Base : 0.47%
Westmorland and Furness
Funded Businesses: 76
Percentage of Business Base : 0.62%
Wigan
Funded Businesses: 37
Percentage of Business Base : 0.24%
Wiltshire
Funded Businesses: 169
Percentage of Business Base : 0.55%
Winchester
Funded Businesses: 72
Percentage of Business Base : 0.49%
Windsor and Maidenhead
Funded Businesses: 75
Percentage of Business Base : 0.44%
Wirral
Funded Businesses: 71
Percentage of Business Base : 0.41%
Woking
Funded Businesses: 46
Percentage of Business Base : 0.49%
Wokingham
Funded Businesses: 74
Percentage of Business Base : 0.5%
Wolverhampton
Funded Businesses: 45
Percentage of Business Base : 0.23%
Worcester
Funded Businesses: 26
Percentage of Business Base : 0.43%
Worthing
Funded Businesses: 31
Percentage of Business Base : 0.36%
Wrexham
Funded Businesses: 35
Percentage of Business Base : 0.61%
Wychavon
Funded Businesses: 55
Percentage of Business Base : 0.37%
Wyre
Funded Businesses: 24
Percentage of Business Base : 0.4%
Wyre Forest
Funded Businesses: 18
Percentage of Business Base : 0.2%
York
Funded Businesses: 100
Percentage of Business Base : 0.79%
Source: Innovate UK
Layout: Local Authority Districts 2023 Open Innovations (MIT)
License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Notes:

  • The visualisation above shows the proportion of Innovate UK funded companies in each local authority. This is based on companies' registered addresses.
  • The address data analysed is self-declared by companies, and typically refers to the company's registered address, rather than, necessarily, the address of the innovation activity. This is the justification for dividing by the number of registered addresses in an area.
  • The Iscles of Scilly has an abnormally large percentage of the business base with access to funding. This outlier is because there are very few businesses with registered adresses there.

Access to Innovate UK Funding 2004-2023 by Combined Authority/Growth Region

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1%
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Notes: The visualisation above shows the proportion of Innovate UK funded companies in each combined authority. This is based on companies' registered addresses.