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Knowledge Transfer Network - Innovation

Knowledge Transfer Network - Innovation is a support programme that connects innovative businesses and start-ups of any size across the United Kingdom with partners and opportunities to develop their ideas. Open, no fixed deadline.

Run by Innovate UK Business Connect

Checked against the official page (iuk.ktn-uk.org) on 5 Oct 2026.

Innovate UK KTN connects innovators with partners and opportunities to accelerate ideas into real-world solutions.

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Status and deadline

Status

Open all year

Confirmed on the official page

Deadline

Open all year

Confirmed on the official page

How much

Not stated

Who can apply

Innovative UK businesses and those seeking UK set up at any stage from sole entrepreneur to established innovator.

Confirmed on the official page

Business size

Start-ups, Any size

Not confirmed on the official page

Could your business apply?

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How to apply

Visit the provider website for further information about how to apply.

Not confirmed on the official page

Where it is open: UK-wide

United Kingdom

Confirmed on the official page

HartlepoolMiddlesbroughRedcar and ClevelandStockton-on-TeesDarlingtonHaltonWarringtonBlackburn with DarwenBlackpoolKingston upon Hull, City ofEast Riding of YorkshireNorth East LincolnshireNorth LincolnshireYorkCounty DurhamCheshire EastCheshire West and ChesterNorthumberlandCumberlandWestmorland and FurnessNorth YorkshireBurnleyChorleyFyldeHyndburnLancasterPendlePrestonRibble ValleyRossendaleSouth RibbleWest LancashireWyreBoltonBuryManchesterOldhamRochdaleSalfordStockportTamesideTraffordWiganKnowsleyLiverpoolSt. HelensSeftonWirralDoncasterRotherhamNewcastle upon TyneNorth TynesideSouth TynesideSunderlandBradfordCalderdaleKirkleesLeedsWakefieldGatesheadBarnsleySheffield

Open across United Kingdom, so every council area in the North of England is shaded.

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Things we could not confirm

  • No specific funding amounts, deadlines or application process details stated on this page

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Source and last checked

Local Landscape gathers this information automatically from the pages below, then checks the key details against the official page. Checked against the official page (iuk.ktn-uk.org) on 5 Oct 2026. Its details have not changed since it was listed on 5 Oct 2026. No person has checked it, so confirm the details with Innovate UK Business Connect before you apply.

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