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With the first ever Nigerian Innovation Advisory Group constituted in November 2021, and voting having commenced in May earlier this year, Global Alliance Africa is pleased to see a group of individuals come together to put Ekiti State’s tech innovation on the map.

On Friday 21st October, the Transforming Foundation Industries Challenge held its first webinar as part of its initiative to raise the profile of Women Innovators in the Foundation Industries (WINFI). Read our panel’s insights and watch the recording.

With specialist support from Innovate UK EDGE, a UK company that makes things easier for installers of audio-visual equipment has boosted its turnover.

The MRE Investor Showcase event offers a gateway to some of the UK’s leading innovators who are bringing ground-breaking ideas to fruition, directly into the advanced materials sector. Participating in this year’s Investor Showcase were 23 exciting companies across the materials value chain, including metamaterials, materials for space, graphene, bio-based materials, energy and construction materials.

On 23 November, Innovate UK KTN Innovation Exchange (iX) and Hethel Innovation will host the Innovate Exchange Roadshow. Joining this event, you will discover how KTN is helping Local Authorities and businesses solve their regional Net Zero challenges through the Innovation Exchange.

2050 is now! At Materials Research Exchange 2022, there was a clear urgency about the need to transform the foundation industries (cement, metals, glass, paper, ceramics and chemicals) if we have a hope of meeting our Net Zero targets.

On 19 August, the Global Alliance Africa project delivered by Innovate UK KTN hosted an online dialogue under the theme “Accelerating Youth-led Innovations” to commemorate Nigeria’s International Youth Day.

In May 2022, as part of Innovate UK’s Global Expert Missions Programme commissioned by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) with funding from the Global Research and Innovation Programme (GRIP), a team of UK experts led by Innovate UK KTN visited Canada and the US to improve our understanding of the research and innovation landscape in the field of critical materials.