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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Related Opportunities
Global Business Innovation Programme: Hydrogen in Transport - Germany
Opens: 28/08/2025 Closes: 28/09/2025
Ambitious companies are invited to apply for a funded visit to Germany to explore the use of hydrogen in transport.
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Hydrogen Innovation Initiative Demonstrations 2025-26
Opens: 17/09/2025 Closes: 06/10/2025
Up to £100,000 per project (including VAT) to help deliver real‑world hydrogen demonstration activity.
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Mentoring Programme for the UK Battery Sector
Opens: 15/09/2025 Closes: 29/09/2025
We are launching a fully funded Mentor Training and Mentoring Programme for early-career individuals working and researching in the battery industries, designed to build meaningful connections across the UK’s battery supply chain.
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Related Events and Recordings
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Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging Challenge - Celebration Event
09.30 - 17.00 GMT | London
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Global Research and Innovation in Plastics Sustainability Conference 2024 (GRIPS 2024)
09.00 - 16.30 | Sheffield / Online