The Mayor’s Innovation Challenge

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The West Yorkshire Combined Authority is implementing its regional Innovation Framework which outlines a priority to drive forward a mission-led approach to innovation. As part of this priority, the Mayoral Combined Authority is seeking to appoint an experienced provider or consortia to design, develop and deliver an innovation challenge competition across West Yorkshire. This should provide SMEs, entrepreneurs and/or start-ups with a real-world, West Yorkshire based challenge or problem and the task of developing a new product, service, or technology designed to address that problem through a programme of specifically targeted support, coaching and mentoring. The selected winners of the competition will receive additional funding to develop their solutions and / or business ideas further Lot 1: Lot 1 - The Mayor’s Innovation Prize for Young People To deliver a maximum of two innovation challenges to a maximum of 30 individuals or teams of individuals per cohort, aged 16-26 with a quantifiable starting TRL of 1-3 for each innovation idea. Lot 2: Lot 2 - The Mayor’s Innovation Challenge To deliver a maximum of three innovation challenges to bring together the innovative ideas of individuals with commercially successful, regionally based SMEs to capitalise on these ideas and progress their development. A quantifiable TRL starting level of 2-5 is required for each innovation idea. Lot 3: Lot 3 - The Mayor’s Transformational Innovation Challenge To deliver one innovation challenge to a maximum of 20 SME beneficiaries for a minimum 12-month duration to develop and commercialise innovation proof of concepts generated by regional SMEs with a starting TRL of 3-5.