Knowledge Centre

Innovate UK’s Net Zero Power programme aims to accelerate commercialisation of low-regret, high-potential solutions by linking innovators with customers and private investors and supporting the most promising technologies through our funding opportunities.

On 28th February the Healthy Ageing Community of Practice partnered with the International Longevity Centre (ILC) for an Ageing and Retail webinar.

Join us online on 13th February for a Q&A and discussion with Susan Wilner Golden, author of Stage (Not Age): How to Understand and Serve People Over 60–the Fastest Growing, Most Dynamic Market in the World’.

The United Kingdom is supporting the EUREKA Xecs Cluster Call 2 on Electronics Components & Systems (ECS).

Watch the launch of the Phage Innovation Network where we further outline the activities of the network and showcase some of the technologies and implementation strategies for PBTs that are being developed in the UK.

Global Alliance Africa delivered by Innovate UK KTN in partnership with the Kenya National Innovation Agency (KeNIA) hosted a Commercialisation of Research in Health roundtable event on 5th December 2022 at Kenya Innovation Week (KIW).

To aid South Africa’s efforts aimed at achieving a Just Energy Transition, Global Alliance Africa, a six-year project funded by UK Aid and delivered by Innovate UK KTN, is creating a Global Innovation Network (GIN) that seeks to facilitate the exchange of energy-related knowledge, resources, funding and opportunities between specialists and key stakeholders in South Africa, the UK, and the continent at large.

Interview with Paul Stevens, CEO of Voltitude

Voltitude, along with its consortium partner, Formtech Composites Limited, successfully applied for a Demonstration project called TMOS that was funded by the Horizon 2020 UFO project. In less than a year after their project ended, on the back of the initial €60k investment from the UFO project, the company was able to secure £700k of revenue, over a factor of 10 in return.

Innovate UK KTN is launching Global Innovation Networks in South Africa with a focus on Energy and Waste And Water Management. These have been identified as strategic priorities for UK-South Africa collaboration and knowledge exchange activities with some exciting programmes of work to be launched in the upcoming months. To kick-start activities KTN staff attended sector-focused events to share knowledge, gather insights, and start collaborations.

This event focused on pitching of project ideas and building of consortia for European Research and Innovation collaborations, and networking for the Clean Hydrogen Partnership 2023 calls.