C-PIC Innovation Fund

Enabling people to innovate and build silicon photonics solutions to real world problems.

Funding and support for the next generation of great ideas to take silicon photonics from research towards implementation.

Our C-PIC Innovation Fund, with funding from EPSRC, is here to support commercially-focused proposals for innovation silicon photonics solutions across a range of application areas and frontier technologies.

We want to fund a wide range of projects from people across career stages and pathways, including early career researchers and technicians. If you have an innovative proposal to make silicon photonics technology more available to improve everyday life, we want to hear from you.

Thanks to support from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, funding will be available for UK academic-led, industry-driven proposals across a range of Technology and Market Readiness interventions, including, but not limited to:

  • Feasibility studies
  • Process Design Kit (PDK), device and component design
  • Device packaging
  • Integration
  • Proof-of-concept demonstrators
  • Prototypes
  • Establishing market demand
  • Value propositions
  • Minimal Viable Product (MVP) testing
  • Proof of scalability

By supporting a diverse portfolio of projects, we will help drive the collaborations, technologies and commercialisation needed to translate silicon photonics technologies from research labs into industry.

Funding opportunities

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