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Defence is increasingly recognised not only as a national security priority, but as a powerful driver of innovation, productivity and regional economic growth. This aligns closely with Innovate UK’s 2026 Prospectus, which sets out a clear ambition to accelerate business innovation, back the UK’s most promising technology businesses and create the conditions for breakthrough ideas to become industry-leading companies.

Innovate UK seeks innovative Clean Energy companies to participate in an acceleration programme to support growth by exploring the potential of the Singapore market.

Material Index (MI) is transforming how the construction industry approaches sustainability. The company enables the reuse of building materials at scale through pre-demolition and pre-refurbishment audits, inventory management, and a digital marketplace for material brokerage.

Following the success of Innovate UK’s first AI white paper, which explored the UK’s AI skills and training gap, this new guide takes the next step: helping employers understand how to adopt AI in a responsible, structured and achievable way.

Are you curious about metamaterials and what they could mean for your organisation? Join Innovate UK Business Connect and the UK Metamaterials Network (UKMMN) for this introductory webinar, designed for businesses, investors, innovators and researchers looking to better understand this rapidly evolving field.

Innovate UK seeks innovative Clean Energy companies to participate in an acceleration programme to support growth by exploring the potential of the Indian market.

Higher education students increasingly rely on digital tools to engage with lectures, yet many face persistent barriers to fully accessing learning in equitable ways. Habitat Learn is an emerging ed-tech company focused on supporting students with a range of neurodiversities, through automating note-taking and captioning at scale.

MyPocketSkill is an online platform that enables young people aged 13-24 across the UK to earn money, build skills, and gain financial independence.

Innovate UK’s first AI-focused white paper sets out to answer a fundamental question facing UK organisations: do we have the skills needed to adopt AI effectively, responsibly and at scale?

UK-based software company Flexible Power Systems (FPS) are working to incorporate AI into emergency dispatch planning to improve the efficiency of fleet deployment.