Guidance

Business Basics Fund

The Business Basics Fund supported projects that tested methods of encouraging small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to boost their productivity through ways of working and technology.

• From: Department for Business and Trade and Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
• Published: 23 January 2019
• Last updated: 3 February 2021
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  1. 3 February 2021

     Successful projects from Round 3 added, and links to reports from Rounds 1 and 2.

  2. 3 January 2020

     Round 3 closed to new applications.

  3. 11 October 2019

     Overview of Business Basics 2 winners added.

  4. 2 October 2019

     Business Basics Fund Round 3 now open to expressions of interest.

  5. 18 April 2019

     Second funding round now closed.

  6. 7 February 2019

     Business Basics Fund Round 1: summary of winners published.

  7. 23 January 2019

     First published.

Documents

Results of completed rounds

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Details

The Business Basics Fund, a series of open competitions, was the main element of the Business Basics Programme. The fund aimed to build evidence on how to encourage SMEs to adopt productivity boosting technology and/or management practices. It was administered by Innovate UK on behalf of BEIS.