Knowledge Centre
Browse through our collection of news, perspectives and webinars to gain a deeper understanding of the Innovate UK Business Connect culture and sector intelligence.

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A taste of the future – Trends in food and drink
The KTN AgriFood team supports researchers and businesses to drive innovation that meets evolving food and drink challenges. With this in mind, let’s take a look at some of the trends emerging in food and drink.
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Shivani Lamba, Founder of Brightlobe, shares her coaching experience as part of the Women in Innovation Programme
This is where I felt I benefited the most: gaining an understanding that several of our questions come hand-in-hand with answers – if only we give ourselves the time and space to listen.
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Innovate Local - Southern Pioneers
The Southern Pioneers webinar was an opportunity to find out how Innovate UK and our local partners across the South East can support you in developing your ground-breaking ideas and accelerating your journey to market.
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Working parents - looking at life through a more compassionate lens
It can be a tough gig being a working parent, especially given the additional challenges that Covid19 presents us with. Some recurring themes in my conversations with working parents include self-criticism, overwhelm, stress and meeting others’ needs, to name but a few. Viewing these themes through a more compassionate lens can be helpful.
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Driving the Electric Revolution - Engage with... Webinar Series
The Driving the Electric Revolution Challenge is investing up to £80million over 4 years in business-led innovation projects that enable UK supply chain and manufacturing capability growth in power electronics, machines & drives (PEMD).
Join our Engage With… webinars in which leading companies and organisations are given a platform to present their PEMD journeys, activities, challenges and future supply chain requirements, with a view of exploring future opportunities for partnerships/collaborations/projects.
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Initiate, prepare and boost your UFO project proposal
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30 Inspiring Women in Manufacturing
Towards the end of 2020, inspired by some of the great women we know and motivated by the gender gap in Manufacturing, the Manufacturing team at KTN felt compelled to do more to amplify the role women play in UK Manufacturing and showcase the excellent work they do.
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Knowledge Transfer Partnership helps power production of the new Covid-19 vaccine
A Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) between the University of Exeter and Smart Manufacturing Ltd is playing a direct and key role in the production process of the new COVID-19 vaccine.
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The UK will associate to Horizon Europe
Start preparing to form collaborative partnerships and to bid into the next Framework Programme of funding calls. Association will give UK scientists, researchers and businesses access to funding under the programme on equivalent terms as organisations in EU countries. The next step is for both sides to formally adopt the full text of the agreement taking into account the finalised EU Programme Regulations.
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Workshop - Safety Tech Innovation Network: the next steps
This session will review issues, discussions and next steps from across the previous four thematic workshops. Based on these, we’ll prioritise the areas on which we’d like to focus, and agree key deliverables and milestones.