Industry · UK public sector
Win Innovate UK and NIHR grants without a research office.
Bidwell drafts Innovate UK Smart, NIHR i4i, Eurostars and Horizon Europe SME applications from your patents, preclinical data, regulatory roadmap and customer validation. Founder time stays on customers and product.
More applications
per funding cycle, no extra hires
Founder time back
for customers and product
Better second attempts
because past feedback feeds the next draft
The shape of research-active smes bidding
What makes this industry hard to bid in
Research-active SMEs, biotechs and deep-tech spinouts go for the same translational grants as universities and Catapults but without the central research office that drafts the applications. Bidwell is that research office. It drafts to Innovate UK Smart, NIHR i4i, Eurostars and Horizon Europe shapes from your technical evidence and commercial validation so the founder is not also the bid writer.
What sucks today
- The CSO, CTO and bid writer are the same person.
- A failed Innovate UK Smart application is a year of runway gone and unclear feedback on what to change.
- The technical work is the edge. The application drafting is the bottleneck.
- Innovate UK and NIHR i4i each have their own shape and the team only writes one or two a year, so the muscle memory never sticks.
What Bidwell does about it
- Innovate UK and NIHR i4i shapes built in
- Patents, preclinical data and commercial validation in one library
- Failed-application feedback fed into the next draft
- Founder time freed for customer discovery and product
Frequently asked
Bidwell vs Research-active SMEs, in short
UK data residency, no training on your content, no shared learning between customers. Pre-IP filings, proprietary chemistry, customer pricing all stay in your account.
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