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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.
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Future Flight Café: Towards an innovative drone medical delivery network
Watch this recording to hear from project CAELUS where the team is designing a digital blueprint to assess the viability of an innovative drone medical logistics network. Moving towards trials in segmented and un-segmented airspace, this project aims to create an innovative logistic network to improve efficiencies in medical delivery which is scalable to a national level.
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Future Flight Café: UK's first remote low-carbon aviation test centre
Join us to hear from the SATE (Sustainable Aviation Test Environment) project which will create the UK’s first remote low-carbon aviation test centre at Kirkwall Airport in the Orkney Islands in Scotland.
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Future Flight Café: Transforming off-shore wind farm inspection using drone swarms
Join this webinar to hear from the consortia behind the ‘Dr-SUIT’ project. The team is developing an integrated communication system to enable single pilot, multiple drone inspection of off-shore wind farms. A novel battery and recharging system, including a novel, ‘swarm-aware’ battery health management system, will transform asset management. Heading towards live trials before the end of Phase II, the team is keen to engage with a range of experts including Offshore Wind Farm (OWF) operators, drone service providers with OWF expertise/focus, wind turbine/blade manufacturers and IoT specialists.
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Future Flight Café: New situational awareness technologies towards integrated UAV operations
Join us to hear from the ISHIMANO (Integrated System for High Integrity Monitoring of Advanced-Air-Mobility Network Operations) project. This consortium is delivering innovative technologies to improve situational awareness of UAVs and their integration into air traffic management and unmanned traffic management. The project’s next stage is to operate the technologies to enable BVLOS and the team is keen to hear from prospective Phase 3 partners looking to establish commercial BVLOS flight operations.
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Case Study
Mental health tech firm flourishes with Innovate UK backing
Innovate UK EDGE has helped a Bristol-based mental health technology company to revamp its leadership and marketing strategies and to secure two Innovate UK grants worth £135,000.
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Future Flight Fridays: The Role of Local Authorities in Future Flight
Join us to explore the role of Local Authorities in transport innovation projects. They are key to delivering the aviation systems of the future so find out how innovators can engage with them.
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The Future of UK Manufacturing and Supply Chain Infrastructure
Manufacturing is a critical sector for the UK economy and this event will bring together speakers on this topic from both the Midlands and Scotland.
UK5G SMEs & Regions Working Group Seminar
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Designed for Ageing – Pre-Competition Workshop
This workshop will introduce a new competition from the UKRI Healthy Ageing Challenge for UK companies to develop innovations that help people as they age.
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Case Study
Graphene pioneer goes global with £1.9m South Korean investment
A Gloucestershire-based graphene developer has secured £1.93m in investment from a South Korean advanced materials company, following international support from Innovate UK EDGE and funding from Innovate UK.
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News
Using prototypes to help you successfully navigate the design to manufacture journey
Achieving commercialization success with an innovative product is challenging. In the case of hardware innovations, most promising ideas result in failure sometimes due to technical reasons but more often, the root cause is insufficient product development knowledge, low cash flow or poorly considered market or customer needs. KTN helps to support innovators navigating the design to manufacture journey.