Boosting Biobased Manufacturing in Scotland

Innovate UK's Launchpad programme aligns with the UK Government’s “Levelling Up” White Paper and aims to deliver regional economic growth across 11 regional clusters. In collaboration with Scottish Enterprise, Innovate UK has awarded £7.5M of funding to innovative SMEs to accelerate Biobased Manufacturing in Scotland. The key objective is to boost Scotland’s bioeconomy, creating regional economic growth and new jobs through sustainable and scalable innovation.

In early 2024, Round 1 of the funding programme awarded £1.8M across 12 companies and 13 projects while Round 2 is funding 19 projects valued at £5.25M.

IBioIC has been awarded funding as the Cluster Management Organisation, collaborating with Scottish Enterprise and Forth Valley College to provide support through a range of activities focussed around supporting technical development, delivering network events and challenge-based workshops, promoting the sectors success and opportunities, increasing investor readiness and fostering skills development. IBioIC has appointed Kirsty Neilson as Programme Manager to develop and promote the Industrial Biobased cluster in Scotland.