Growth Roundtable

Upcoming UKRI funding opportunity · Grant. Opens 2026-11-05; closes 2027-01-07. Total fund £2.95 million. Opportunity page: https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/growth-roundtable/

Apply for funding to establish an applied research project that tackles barriers to investment by commissioning, curating and publishing evidence on the regulatory and institutional conditions needed to incentivise investment and drive economic growth, particularly through AI and other technologies. The Growth Roundtable will address economic challenges and produce insights to strengthen policy making and support long-term growth.

The total UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) contribution on the application must not exceed £2.95 million.

The duration of this award is 36 months. Projects should start by 1 April 2027.

What we're looking for Aim

Economic growth remains a major challenge for the UK and driving growth is a key part of our mission. There is a consensus that low levels of investment is a major cause of the UK’s growth problem. One hypothesised cause of these low investment levels are regulatory systems and institutions that create uncertainty and discourage investment.

There is a need to ensure that diverse sources of knowledge, from both academic research and practice in fields such as law and finance, can be harnessed to design regulatory systems and institutions fit for the current growth challenge.

Policymakers and other decision makers often require timely, actionable evidence to respond effectively to this challenge, yet there can be a gap between the generation of research evidence and its application in policy and practice.

This Roundtable will address that gap by bringing together expertise from academia, government, industry and other stakeholders to identify emerging challenges and opportunities, generate policy-relevant insights, and commission targeted evidence where needed. Through this approach, the Roundtable will strengthen the actionable evidence base for…