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.
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Perspectives on Battery Recycling and Reuse - Faraday Battery Challenge Cohort Event
Join the Faraday Battery Challenge, KTN, and the Cross Sector Battery Systems Innovation Network in a stimulating day exchanging perspectives and exploring trends in battery end of life.
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Transforming Foundation Industry Investment Partnership - Application Workshop: Writing a Compelling Investment Pitch
KTN’s Investment Team will provide practical advice on how to prepare and write the one-page investment profile application for the Transforming Foundation Industry Investor Partner programme.
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Need help to reset the way your business works?
Join our webinar to find out about this funding opportunity! A free webinar guide to what Management KTPs are, how they can drive positive change in your business, what funding is available and how to apply.
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KTP helps develop world's first graphene-enhanced foam for running shoe
A Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) between sports footwear firm inov-8 and graphene experts at the University of Manchester has helped develop the world’s first running shoe to use a graphene-enhanced foam in the sole, doubling its longevity.
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KTN launches Medimap, an end-to-end UK landscape map covering the manufacture of medicines
Medimap is a new interactive reference tool for the UK medicines sector, mapping and categorising over 3,000 sites of organisations engaged in or supporting the end-to-end supply chain for medicines.
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Tees Valley Hydrogen Transport Hub Scoping Workshop
This workshop, held in partnership with the Department of Transport (DFT) and Innovate UK, will directly inform The Tees Valley Hydrogen Transport Hub competition scope.
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Made Smarter - Innovation Network: Flexible Manufacturing
Production efficiency often centres around a consistent product and process, optimised to run with minimal downtime. But what happens when customers demand more product variation, where you need to switch a process from one product to another, or where batch sizes are small? This event will explore how digital technology can help manufacturers maintain efficiency and asset utilisation whilst offering the customer what they want.
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Made Smarter - Innovation Network: Servitisation
This event will explore servitisation and how digital technologies and approaches can facilitate it, making exciting connections across the various communities, catalysing uptake – manufacturers, tech providers and servitisation experts.
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Made Smarter - Innovation Network: Design for Manufacture
We will explore how advances in manufacturing and materials technology may allow you to offer opportunities for DfM decisions to create a product that is easily and economically manufactured.
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Made Smarter - Innovation Network: Circular Economy
This event will explore the synergy between digital manufacturing and the notion of a more “circular economy” and make exciting connections across the various communities that will catalyse action- manufacturers, tech providers and circular economy experts.