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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Resource efficiency for resilience and sustainability: feasibility studies
Opens: 22/09/2025 Closes: 03/11/2025
Up to £25k per project for innovative feasibility studies in novel, sustainable, low carbon materials and manufacturing, including seaweed processing.
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Global Business Innovation Programme – Battery Tech, Germany
Opens: 15/09/2025 Closes: 26/10/2025
Join Innovate UK's exclusive programme for innovative companies to explore battery technology opportunities in Germany.
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National Home Decarbonisation Group: Big Retrofit Challenge 2.0
Opens: 03/10/2025 Closes: 10/11/2025
Seeking innovative solutions for home decarbonisation. 6 shortlisted winners will present their innovation on stage at the National Retrofit Conference.
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Global Research and Innovation in Plastics Sustainability Conference 2024 (GRIPS 2024)
09.00 - 16.30 | Sheffield / Online