{"id":27290,"date":"2021-07-13T13:05:13","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T12:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beta-ukri.msappproxy.net\/?post_type=council&#038;p=27290"},"modified":"2025-07-02T14:39:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T13:39:28","slug":"innovation-loans","status":"publish","type":"council","link":"https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/councils\/innovate-uk\/guidance-for-applicants\/guidance-for-specific-funds\/innovation-loans\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation loans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This guidance is for UK micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) who want to apply for an innovation loan.<\/p>\n<p>Innovation loans aim to provide flexible and patient capital to support business growth through innovation. This will be delivered through Innovate UK Loans Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of UK Research and Innovation.<\/p>\n<p>Innovate UK is working to broaden the range of innovation finance support available to businesses, so they can access funding at all stages of innovation.<\/p>\n<p>You can only obtain an innovation loan by applying into Innovate UK\u2019s competitive loans process.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to apply for an innovation loan, this guidance will help you to find a relevant opportunity and complete an application. It includes information on what happens after you have submitted an application and if you are successful.<\/p>\n<p>You should follow this guidance in conjunction with the <a href=\"\/councils\/innovate-uk\/guidance-for-applicants\/\">overall guidance on applying for a competition on the Innovation Funding Service<\/a> and specific competition guidance for the opportunity you intend to apply into. Before making an application you should take independent advice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"parent":27237,"template":"template-chapter-nav-parent.php","categories":[52],"tags":[],"wf_council_folders":[287,129],"class_list":["post-27290","council","type-council","status-publish","hentry","category-innovate-uk"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/council\/27290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/council"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/council"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/council\/27290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169812,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/council\/27290\/revisions\/169812"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/council\/27237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27290"},{"taxonomy":"wf_council_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_council_folders?post=27290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}