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A Gloucestershire-based graphene developer has secured £1.93m in investment from a South Korean advanced materials company, following international support from Innovate UK EDGE and funding from Innovate UK.

Achieving commercialization success with an innovative product is challenging. In the case of hardware innovations, most promising ideas result in failure sometimes due to technical reasons but more often, the root cause is insufficient product development knowledge, low cash flow or poorly considered market or customer needs. KTN helps to support innovators navigating the design to manufacture journey.

Innovate UK has invested in an advanced smart mobility and ticketing technology to simplify journeys and drive a greener, smarter economy.

With support from Innovate UK EDGE, Unicard, a smart transport and ticketing innovator has raised £175,000 in Innovate UK funding to develop its inventory management technology for dockless bikes and e-scooters. The company is growing rapidly with a £1.7m contract with Transport Scotland.

Founded in 2003, Unicard is a well-respected provider of smart ticketing solutions to the UK’s public transport sector, processing over half a billion smart transactions a year.

A cloud computing start-up that monitors farm productivity has raised £235,000 in Innovate UK funding, launched a recruitment app and expanded its software development team – all with help from Innovate UK EDGE.

Cropdesk was founded by third generation blueberry farmer – and grandson to the UK’s first commercial blueberry farmer – David Trehane.

“When I took over the farm, harvest workers would write their name on a piece of cornflake packet and stick it to the box they picked,” says David. “That’s the level of data we were gathering. Our sole metric for whether we had a good season was our bank balance.”

Using his background in cloud computing, David built a solution that would measure worker’s picking speeds, track the productivity of berry varieties and predict yield by analysing climate data.

A Cornwall-based innovator has begun re-establishing the world’s lost ocean reefs, building artificial habitats around off-shore constructions.

Renewable energy innovator finds UK and overseas partners and prepares to launch Canadian subsidiary following international support from Innovate UK EDGE.

A medical technology innovator is seeing significant growth following support from Innovate UK EDGE to overcome challenges posed by the pandemic.

A Dorset-based med-tech innovator, who partners with clinicians, SMEs and universities from across the UK to solve unmet clinical needs, saw its business decline by 80% due to the impact of COVID.

Keith Heaton, managing director of i2r Medical describes its business model: “Our typical partner might be a clinician who has identified a specific clinical problem that is having a negative effect on the patient and the healthcare system. We step in to clarify the unmet clinical need and work with the innovator to design a solution that can be manufactured at a viable price.”

A Cornwall-based innovator in hydrogen technologies is planning global expansion, following marketing, innovation and internationalisation support from Innovate UK EDGE.

We’re proud to announce that our Diversity & Inclusion Knowledge Transfer Manager, Siwan Smith, has won WeAreTheCity’s Rising Star Award for Diversity, sponsored by Citi.

“Where the regulators and the regulated don’t just exist together but positively flourish.” Astrid Ayel interviews the Enabling Data Access Competition winners; in this episode, Sally Sfeir-Tait opens up about her journey from lawyer and regulator to starting her own business and talks about “balancing the interests of the few with the interests of the many, in a harmonious way”.