The information is as follows.
The spring 2007 competition is currently under way and has allocated funds across the following areas:
£ million Smart, Bioactive and Nanostructure Materials for Health 7 Plastic Electronics: Materials Processing and Systems Integration 5 Lightweight Materials and Structures 15 Design Engineering and Advanced Manufacturing 40 Oil and Gas Technologies 5 Low Carbon Energy Technologies 10 Networked Enterprise 8
There was no Budget announcement in 2006; however, since 2004 over eight collaborative research and development competitions have been held and the Technology Programme has allocated £438 million to 620 projects in the following technology priority areas:
Environmentally Friendly Transport
Bio Science and Healthcare
Advanced Materials and Micro/Nano Technology
Sensors, Displays and Imaging and Optoelectronics
ICT
Validation of Complex Systems
Zero (Carbon) Emissions Enterprises
Waste reduction and Sustainable Production and Consumption
This can be broadly recast (by number of projects) across the following sectors:
Percentage Advanced Materials (including Micro and Nanotechnology) 21 Bioscience and Healthcare 9 Design Engineering and Advanced Manufacturing 17 Electronics and Photonics 16 Emerging Energy Technologies 15 Information and Communications Technology 6 Sustainable Production and Consumption 16