Knowledge Centre

A new report, written by Innovate UK Business Connect, has been published by government highlighting the criticality around better use of data to create a more efficient transport system.

Critical minerals underpin almost everything we do, and used in a lot of our everyday products and materials. We use them in our daily lives, whether we are communicating, travelling to work, and in our homes. This brochure celebrates the impact, achievements and benefits of the CLIMATES programme, delivered by Innovate UK in partnership with the Department for Business and Trade.

Join Innovate UK Business Connect and partners to mark one year of the UK-Beyond Earth Network (UK-BEN) Microgravity Life Sciences Working Group and explore how microgravity and in-space environments are creating new opportunities for research, innovation and manufacturing.

Join the online briefing to learn more about Next Wave: Breakthrough Wave 1, the new competition for industrial research projects to explore createch innovation that’s aligned with the industrial strategy.

Join these events to learn from the successful outputs of projects delivered in 2025 and 2026, with the aim of sharing practice for the benefit of dissemination and broader adoption.

Innovate UK Business Connect has published a new report highlighting the outputs from a recent workshop aimed at developing a vision for an integrated transport system and identifying barriers and opportunities to seamless travel. 

The Contracts for Innovation – Resource Efficiency Impacts Validation competition supported 40 projects across the construction, chemicals and automotive sectors to demonstrate resource efficiency innovations in operational environments and assess their environmental, economic and process benefits.

Norbury Park Estate’s innovative approach to grey squirrel control, supported by Innovate UK Business Connect and Defra’s Farming Innovation Programme (FIP), has led to a new company, and a new product reaching market that significantly reduces costs and improves the efficiency of squirrel control for woodland management.