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
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.
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Materials for end-to-end hydrogen workshop
KTN’s Hydrogen Economy Innovation Network is collaborating with the Henry Royce Institute to bring you a workshop focussed on materials for the hydrogen economy.
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Accelerating to Net Zero with Hydrogen Blending Standards Development in the UK, Canada and the US
Hydrogen is expected to play a critical role in the move to a net-zero economy. However, large-scale deployment is still in its infancy. Exciting pilot projects are being conducted and explored in the UK, Canada and US states such as California to determine the technical feasibility of blending hydrogen into existing natural gas systems. There is increasing interest around permitting significant percentage blends of hydrogen into gas networks, which would enable the carbon intensity of gas supplies to be reduced, create a new demand for hydrogen and, with the use of separation and purification technologies downstream, support the transportation of pure hydrogen to markets.
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Future Flight Challenge - Modelling and Simulation Workshop
Join us for a workshop examining the possibilities of collaboration between mathematical sciences and the ISCF Future Flight Challenge. Pre-event you can take part in a quick poll to select the topics for discussion.