LINK
BBSRC contributes around £3M a year to the national LINK scheme, which promotes academic/industrial collaboration in pre-competitive research. Projects are typically funded 50:50 by industry and government support.
We support projects in LINK programmes and 'stand alone' projects that do not fit into existing programmes but otherwise meet LINK criteria.
There are also funding opportunities through Defra - see external links.
In June 2008 the Food Quality and Innovation LINK amalgamated with Advanced Food Manufacturing LINK to become the Food LINK programme.