Sustainability
The world is changing at an ever greater pace. Industry and innovators are responding, working together to create the products, services and businesses of the future. Innovate UK Business Connect is here to help.
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We make the full range of diverse connections required to shape a more positive future: technology, design, supply chains, business models, behaviour change, systems change. We are committed to driving innovation that is sustainable – responsible, resilient and even regenerative.
Innovate UK Business Connect helps drive innovation that can reduce industry’s environmental footprint and improve resource efficiency, and also create benefits such as competitive advantage and enhanced value-add for the customer. By making the right connections – for instance to cutting edge knowledge & research, the best solution providers, and testing facilities.
We help innovators navigate the journey to market fruition. We make connections to the multitude of skills and assets required to bring any product or service to market. And of course the funding and finance that might be required.
Innovate UK Business Connect works extensively with stakeholders – from national and regional government to national and regional government, Catapults, clusters, trade associations, learned institutions, expert consultancies, think tanks and charities. We connect seemingly disparate stakeholders to shape a better innovation landscape, and multiply the impact that any one of these organisations could have alone. To help drive positive change.
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Related Opportunities
National Home Decarbonisation Group: Big Retrofit Challenge
Opens: 18/10/2024 Closes: 28/11/2024
The ‘Big Retrofit Challenge’ is a bold new competition aimed at unearthing game-changing solutions in home decarbonisation.
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ARIA: Exploring Climate Cooling - full proposals
Opens: 08/11/2024 Closes: 09/12/2024
Backed by £56.8m, this programme will explore whether approaches designed to delay, or avert, climate tipping points could be feasible, scalable, and safe.
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European Space Agency: Space For Sustainable Forestry
Applications reviewed when received
ESA seek space-based solutions for forest management, ecosystem improvement, agroforestry, natural disaster response, and carbon storage measurement.
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Unlocking the value chain of EVs and micromobility in India
Opens: 24/10/2024 Closes: 24/11/2024
SMEs are invited to offer solutions to e-mobility and micro-mobility challenges in India, visiting the Global Start-up Summit in Chennai.
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Using space-based technology to predict and monitor blue-green algal blooms
Opens: 21/10/2024 Closes: 08/11/2024
Seeking potential remote sensing solutions to predict, detect and monitor the extent and movement of the Blue Green Algae in Lough Neagh.
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Launchpad: net zero industry, South West Wales – Rd 2 MFA
Opens: 04/11/2024 Closes: 11/12/2024
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £1 million for projects that grow their innovation activities in the net zero industrial cluster in South West Wales. This funding is from Innovate UK.
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Related Events and Recordings
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Global Research and Innovation in Plastics Sustainability Conference 2024 (GRIPS 2024)
09.00 - 16.30 | Sheffield / Online