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Browse through our collection of news, perspectives and webinars to gain a deeper understanding of the Innovate UK Business Connect culture and sector intelligence.
Case Study
Seep soaks up Innovate UK EDGE support and grows
Currently, over 600 million sponges go to landfill every year in the UK, with at least 80% of those sponges being made from virgin plastic. Seep (Sustainable Everyday Essential Products) is addressing this problem through the production of sustainable household products.
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Event
Decarbonising Ports & Harbours - Solution Roadmapping Workshop
On 15th October 2021, KTN’s Decarbonising Ports & Harbours Innovation Network is hosting an interactive workshop to commence socialising our thoughts on whiteboards in order to frame, structure, and flow ideas into an upcoming Solutions Roadmapping report dedicated to the ports and harbours community. This exercise is crucial to allow us to take stock of the current solutions available and those at different stages of development.
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Manufacturing Made Smarter with Quantum
This event presented examples of the application and implementation of quantum technology in the manufacturing and infrastructure industry. We brought the manufacturing and the quantum communities together and explore how both sectors can collaborate.
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News
Innovative solutions sought to support our Royal Navy Warships
BAE Systems Surface Ships is looking for novel and innovative ideas and solutions to bring new thinking to the operation performance of a UK naval vessel and KTN is working with them via the KTN-iX programme to identify innovation solutions from SMEs, medium-sized enterprises and UK R&D Centres across application areas.
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Natasha's Law for food labelling and safety in effect from today
Labelling is an important process in selling goods, especially when it comes to food and drink. However, the labelling of such products is not as extensive as it should be, especially when it comes to packaged food that is made and sold in the same location. This is all about to change with Natasha’s Law coming into force in England on October 1st, 2021.
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Event
Future Flight Fridays: A Sustainable Aviation Flight Path
Join us to explore how to place the UK on a sustainable aviation flight path and make aviation cleaner and greener. It has the potential to better connect rural and remote communities across the UK, to speed up journeys in congested cities and improve the lives of millions of people.
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Team interview: CHEMUK2021 - what did we learn about the chemical and biotech sectors?
For the first time since March 2020, our Chemistry and Industrial Biotechnology Team ventured back into the world of live conferences, joining 350 exhibitors and 2,438 visitors at CHEMUK2021. For many of us at KTN, industry events used to be part of daily life; but after a few hundred webinars later, do we still find live conferences as valuable as they once were? Time to find out!
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Meeting Net Zero with the power of place: Space & Geospatial Virtual Pavilion for COP26
Showcasing the crucial role that space data and geospatial intelligence play in helping a wide range of sectors to reach their Net Zero targets.
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CyberASAP Alumni Insights: “We wanted to make a real difference to society, countering extremism online”
Founder of Raven Science, Tom Chen, talks about spinning out from City, University of London.
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Young Innovators Success Stories: Ben Bowler, Indie, London
Serial innovator Ben Bowler is on a mission to revolutionise how the music industry uses cutting-edge AI technology to support the next-generation of creators.