Knowledge Centre

Innovation and growth specialist Sandra shares insights into working with an international business advisor and tips for entering overseas markets.

BEIS, Innovate UK, High Value Manufacturing Catapult (HVMC) and Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) have produced a study of the UK market for fibre reinforced polymer composites (FRPs). This will be used by BEIS to inform future policymaking, and also by industrial companies and representative sector bodies to inform their wider communities.

Advice from Innovate UK EDGE has helped a Cheshire-based company to apply successfully for Innovate UK funding, allowing it to produce an innovative medical devicefor distribution around the world.

Hear from project EnabEl, who aim to deliver and exploit the benefits of electric propulsion to, reduce aircraft emissions, noise, and flying costs.

Innovate UK Manufacturing Made Smarter funding has enabled the development of an AI-driven manufacturing cost estimator and digital supply chain technology.

The Department for Transport has announced a range of initiatives to support and enable confident travel for disabled people, linked to the National Disability Strategy. Disabled passengers will have better accessibility when using transport and a significant say in how they travel and how the future of transport is shaped.  The initiatives are welcomed by KTN’s Transport Team, who are acutely aware of the importance of accessibility across all modes of transport.

With help from Innovate UK EDGE, an innovative Knaresborough-based company refocused its business to combat COVID and won an NHS contract.

UKRI has invested £50 million in funding in smart manufacturing and connected supply chains: this will fund a Digital Supply Chain Innovation Hub, 37 successful projects in the Digital Supply Chain competition, and 5 new university led research centres.

The Analysis for Innovators competition aims to help boost a company’s productivity or competitiveness by working with the UK’s top scientists, using world-class facilities, to address problems in innovative ways.

An overview of Microbiome related Call Topics and UK Participation in the Horizon Europe Framework Programme. KTN’s Dr Jane Watkins talks about what opportunities there are for Microbiome, what you need to do to apply, and where to find them.