Knowledge Centre

Watch our recording of the funding programme online briefing event in partnership with the BBSRC and STFC, recorded 5th Dec 2022.

Dorset-based Benjamin Gibbons co-founded Circular11 after living with communities that lacked any waste management.

Innovate UK launched its Net Zero Review 2022, a report reflecting on the big areas of opportunity for Net Zero innovation in the UK – what has been achieved so far, where we need to be in 15 years, and how we might get there.

Seyed Nasrollahi had just started developing the second demo for his educational video game, Operation Outsmart, when he won the Young Innovators Award.

There are many different routes into innovation, and this is clearly illustrated in the stories of our award winners. Read the stories of our 2021/22 Young Innovators to find out how the Young Innovators programme helped them to navigate and accelerate their entrepreneurial journey.

Last week’s Autumn Statement included the intention to ‘boost growth and productivity by investing in people, infrastructure, and innovation’ and restated the government’s commitment to increasing public investment in research and innovation to £20bn by 2024-25.

They’re some of the areas being looked at by 12 startups on the new Sustainable Impact Investment accelerator programme.

AgriFood Africa Connect brought together stakeholders from the UK and Africa to explore key food waste challenges, identify best practice circular economy initiatives and showcase innovations that can reduce or help reuse food waste.