Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) · GB · UKRI

A guide for the commercialisation of Creative Industries Research

This funding supports a university-led team to develop a sector-specific guide for commercialising creative industries research, addressing early-stage barriers and providing practical frameworks and best practice deal terms. The project must involve collaboration with investors, lawyers, and founders, and produce a guide that can be widely adopted to improve deal-making for creative industries ventures.

Up to £250,000 ~12 months Deadline 2026-10-15

Official page ↗ Application form / how to apply

Data last verified 2026-08-14 · sources & verification

Eligibility

Structured dimensions read from the official page. What do these mean? ↗

Applicant type

University

Institution type

University

Host country

Organization type

University, Research Institute

Track record

strong track record in supporting CI commercial models including scaling university spin-outs, mentoring founders, building effective leadership teams, and managing complex equity and capital structures

Consortium

Required

Evidence: every dimension above is read from this scheme's official page — official page ↗.

Full eligibility text

Open to organisations with standard UKRI eligibility. The lead organisation must be a university and demonstrate ability to convene sector-wide collaboration. Partnerships must include organisations with experience in translating creative industries research and investors.

Deadline

2026-10-15

Application form effort

1 form file(s) downloaded; 8 explicit questions; 7 writing prompts; 53 fields/sections; moderate — substantial written sections

Equality impact assessment (PDF, 173KB) (10 pages)

Sample questions

Who is affected?
What data and consultation have you used?
Are there general impacts on multiple groups?
How will you monitor and review the impact of your activity?
What is the EIA review date?
Will the EIA be published?
Who has this been signed off by?
Action Deadline Owner How will it be monitored? What is the outcome?

Application form preview sample questions, page & word limits from the application form Back to browse

Data sources & verification (for research-office review)

Where each item on this page was read from, so every claim can be verified against the original. Several values often come from the same official page — that page is named in the Source column. Anything we could not reach or parse is listed under Not captured / obstacles below.

Curated item	Value in this record	Source
Funding agency	Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)	www.ukri.org ↗
Country / funding source	GB · UKRI	same page as above — www.ukri.org ↗
Deadline	2026-10-15 — LLM-checked against the archived official page	same page as above — www.ukri.org ↗
Funding amount	Up to £250,000	same page as above — www.ukri.org ↗
Eligibility	6 structured dimensions — see the eligibility panel above	same page as above — www.ukri.org ↗

Pages & application forms captured

Official opportunity page ↗
Application form / how to apply — https://funding-service.ukri.org/OPP1355/apply/1380 ↗
Application form: Equality impact assessment (PDF, 173KB) — download ↗ (10 pp)

Not captured / obstacles

Data is collected from official funder pages only. Figures are machine-curated (rule + LLM where noted) and should be re-verified on the linked source before use.