Industry · UK public sector
Independent institute, independent grants office.
Bidwell drafts UKRI, Innovate UK, NIHR and Horizon Europe applications from your institute's prior work, IP and partner record. Catapults, MRC units, IRC institutes and independent research institutes all use the same drafting engine.
More funders
covered without learning each shape from scratch
Institute capacity
redirected from drafting to strategy
Consortium fit
that aligns to partners automatically
The shape of research institutes and catapults bidding
What makes this industry hard to bid in
Independent research institutes and Catapults bridge academia and industry. The grant shapes they go for vary widely: UKRI for fundamental work, Innovate UK for translational, NIHR for clinical translation, Horizon Europe for consortia. Bidwell drafts to each shape from a shared institute-level library so the small grants office is no longer the bottleneck.
What sucks today
- You apply to UKRI, Innovate UK, NIHR and Horizon Europe and each one has a different shape your team has to learn from scratch.
- The institute's prior work, IP and partner record sits in seven places and gets re-typed into every new application.
- Consortium calls need the institute's contribution to fit a shared narrative your partners are still drafting.
- Strategic priorities are clear, drafting capacity to pursue them is not.
What Bidwell does about it
- Drafting engine that knows each funder's shape
- Institute IP, partner record and prior work in one library
- Consortium-fit drafting that adapts to a shared narrative
- Strategy and drafting decoupled so capacity stops being the constraint
Frequently asked
Bidwell vs Research institutes and Catapults, in short
Each funder profile in Bidwell encodes the scheme's assessment criteria, page limits and costings rules. Switching from UKRI to Innovate UK to Horizon Europe is a profile change, not a re-learn.
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