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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Our current focus in this area
Related Opportunities
European Space Agency: Maritime Decarbonisation
Opens: 01/06/2024 Closes: 28/02/2025
ESA seeks to support development of sustainable space-based services and applications related to maritime decarbonisation.
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Design Exchange Partnerships: design the green transition round three
Opens: 02/05/2024 Closes: 12/09/2024
Apply for funding to develop design-led solutions around the theme the idea of designing for impact beyond humans.
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Connecting concrete supply chain to innovators
Opens: 05/07/2024 Closes: 02/08/2024
Would you like to connect with innovators who are developing solutions to decarbonise concrete?
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Innovation Exchange challenge: Sustainable materials in modular outdoor structures
Opens: 11/06/2024 Closes: 31/07/2024
Supporting the UK arm of a major blue-chip international organisation to identify sustainable materials and manufacturers for outdoor exposure structures.
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UK-Africa Space Technology for Sustainability Lead Customer Programme
Opens: 10/07/2024 Closes: 05/08/2024
Innovate UK Global Alliance Africa is investing up to £180,000 for three innovation projects (£60,000 per project) in a multilateral UK-Africa space sector towards improvement of space technology for sustainability in South Africa/Kenya/Rwanda and/or the UK.
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European Space Agency: Nature-based Solutions
Opens: 09/10/2024 Closes: 20/11/2024
Nature-based Solutions (NBS) leverage the power of healthy ecosystems to enhance protections for society, optimise infrastructure, and ensure a biodiverse future.
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Related Events and Recordings
Tue
4
Jun
2024
A greener future: Understanding the NHS net zero supplier roadmap and how to meet your sustainability goals
10.00 - 11.00 GMT | Online
Watch now
Thu
13
Jun
2024
Net Zero Living Annual Event - Innovating to Accelerate Change
09.30 - 16.30 | Cardiff
Recording coming soon
Thu
19
Sep
2024
Global Research and Innovation in Plastics Sustainability Conference 2024 (GRIPS 2024)
09.00 - 16.30 | Sheffield / Online