Innovate UK’s Sustainable Chemicals Incubator Plus (SCIP) is exploring how UK SMEs can rapidly scale and deploy innovations in sustainable chemicals and support the UK’s supply chain resilience and industrial strategy. The SCIP activities have included benchmarking UK scale-up support with clusters around the world and analysis of the opportunities for chemicals within the UK Industrial Strategy.
Innovate UK are now running workshops to explore and refine understanding of the scaling challenges faced by SMEs when moving higher TRL SMEs towards commercial implementation.
Who should attend?
This workshop is intended for individuals involved in strategy, innovation, technology development, or business growth within the chemicals sector. We aim for a diverse group, with a strong emphasis on SME participation. Attendance is limited, so please register your interest as soon as possible. Large companies interested in supply chains of the future and fostering a thriving UK Chemical Industry and a skilled UK workforce are encouraged to attend.
Workshop objectives
- Build consensus on the needs of SMEs to be able to scale and deploy innovations in sustainable chemicals within in the UK
- Identify interventions to support SMEs business and technical growth from higher TRLs towards commercialisation
- Foster connections between SMEs, industry partners, and support organisations
Outline agenda
- Arrival & registration
- Welcome & scene setting
- Morning workshop sessions: Problem/Challenge Statement Development
- Identify, explore and refine understanding of scaling challenges
- Lunch
- Afternoon workshop sessions: Development of actionable ideas and solutions
- Develop actionable ideas to address identified challenges
- Next steps & close
When and where
- Wilton Centre Teesside, 10 February
- Wallacespace Spitalfields, London, 24 February
- The Studio, Manchester, 26 February
Accessibility and Inclusion
We are committed to ensuring our events are accessible for all.
If you experience any barriers to registering, for any reason, please contact us by email: enquiries@iukbc.org.uk or phone: +44 03333 403250 and we will support your registration.