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.

Event
Innovation for Growth Series: Health and EdTech at Gloucestershire University - POSTPONED
In the next edition of the Innovation for Growth Series, we’ll focus on opportunities for innovative businesses in Health Technologies, Clinical Informatics, Cyber Security and Machine Learning.
Postponed

News
Queen's Speech 2022: The Innovation Agenda
As the Government sets out its priorities for the 2022/2023 Parliamentary session, we explore what it means for the UK’s innovation ecosystem.
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Faraday Battery Challenge: Round 5 Surgery and Consortia Building
Please join us on Wednesday 8th of June or Friday 24th of June at for a ‘Surgery and Consortia Building’ webinar.
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Faraday Battery Challenge Round 5 Innovation Competition
On Tuesday 24th of May, we hosted a webinar to hear about the new Faraday Battery Challenge Round 5 Innovation Competition. This event was of interest to businesses of all sizes (micro, SME and large), academics, RTOs and local authorities.
The competition opened on 23rd May 2022 and will close on 17th August 2022 with up to £25 million innovation funding competition available from Faraday Battery Challenge (subject to business case approval).
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Case Study
Women In Innovation Success Stories: Sonu Bubna, Shopper.com, West Midlands
Sonu Bubna was inspired to enhance her award-winning online community platform, Shopper.com, to tackle the issue of widespread product shortages during the COVID-19 pandemic. Sonu launched her community for online buyers in 2018 to enable members to discover discounts and deals.
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Future Flight for Local Authorities
Join us for this webinar where we’ll be exploring the role of Local Authorities within Future Flight, the importance of community engagement, and hear from Coventry City Council on their experience with the Challenge.
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News
Maritime industry sailing towards Net Zero
An event report from the Clean Maritime Demonstration Competition Showcase at the Portsmouth International Port.
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Case Study
Women In Innovation Success Stories: Samantha Bunyan, Cecence, South West
As a co-founder of the pioneering composite manufacturing business Cecence, Women In Innovation Award holder Samantha Bunyan is developing next generation, sustainable interiors for the aerospace cabin of the future, aiming to reduce an aircraft’s carbon footprint even further.
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Case Study
SpaceBands raises £450K to grow with investment readiness support
A Bristol innovator has launched a pioneering health and safety device and raised £450,000 following support with design thinking and investment readiness from Innovate UK EDGE.
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Event
Circular Economy Innovation Network – Aluminium Group Kick Off Meeting
Innovate UK KTN will be developing an Aluminium Circular Economy community over the coming years, to look at solving some of the challenges around circularity of aluminium and unlocking opportunities for UK industry while reducing the environmental impact of our current systems.
This online event will run from 10am – 12pm, with online networking opportunities via the Meeting Mojo platform running between 1pm – 3pm on the same day.