Contracts for Innovation: Enabling Commercial Quantum Networking
Ref: GRT-YSKPNDLY
Funding Available
Between £1.5 million and £3 million
UK Wide
All Sectors
20 May 2026
Grants & Funding
About This Grant
Innovate UK is investing up to £20 million in this Contracts for Innovation competition to accelerate the development of enabling components and sub-systems for commercial quantum networks. The aim is to develop a deployable prototype that sits in the supply chain of a system integrator or service provider, ultimately strengthening the UK's position in the global quantum technology supply chain.
What Can It Fund?
- quantum networking
- deployable prototype
- enabling components
- sub-systems
- supply chain
- commercialisation
- procurement
Funding Source
Innovate UK
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