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.

News
Want to apply for a share of £800,000 to develop your cyber security idea?
Funding competition now open for Academics to join CyberASAP – the unique pre-seed commercialisation programme. Deadline: 3rd March 2021.
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Fashion Comes Full Circle: Redesigning a Sustainable Future Through International Collaboration
This webinar will explore the outcomes following the Global Expert Missions to US and Paris which took place in 2019/2020 and give participants the opportunity to ask questions of the delegation who attended the missions.
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Industrial Energy Transformation Fund Competition Briefing
Join BEIS, Innovate UK and KTN for this briefing webinar on the £40m IETF competition. Hear about the industrial net zero policy, the competition’s scope and application details.
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New Industrial Energy Transformation Fund opportunity launched to support businesses on the path to Net Zero
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), in collaboration with Innovate UK and KTN, has launched the next opportunity to bid for funding from the Industrial Energy Transformation Fund (IETF).
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Unity VR Game Workshop - Immerse UK Premium Members
In this comprehensive workshop from Immerse UK and Unity, you’ll learn how to build an immersive VR game step by step. Designed for people who have a Beginner to Intermediate knowledge of Unity, the goal of this workshop is to teach you how to design, develop, and deploy a VR application.
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Women in Innovation Award Winner: Michelle (Fanzi) Down, DPS Designs Ltd
Michelle (Fanzi) Down, Commercial Director of DPS Designs Ltd and 2016/17 Women in Innovation Award Winner, on developing a revolutionary chocolate moulding technique, transforming their business model and growing their customer base.
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IP for Quantum Technologies Q&A
Patents for new technologies can be an especially precarious territory to navigate. KTN’s Quantum Technologies Innovation Network are here to help with a special video from Keltie that focusses on patents and IP for your quantum innovation.
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Validation of Metamaterials’ Value Propositions Workshop
The Commercialising Metamaterials Innovation Network brings you another workshop in our winter series. Places are limited so express your interest today!
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Women in Innovation - Negotiating: Take Control
During this engaging and dynamic live, virtual workshop, Katherine Baker, CEO and Founder of Intrinsic Energy will enable you to learn the rules to the game of negotiating, discover techniques to keep yourself calm under pressure, and uncover methods to ensure you get what you want.
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ISCF Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging: Business Led R&D Competition briefing
Join UKCPN and KTN for a briefing event on the ISCF Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging (SSPP) Business-led R&D Competition, which is looking for projects that address problems related to plastic packaging for consumer products.