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Young Innovators Success Stories: Creating digital product passports for high-value electronics
Case Study
26/09/2025

Young Innovators Success Stories: Creating digital product passports for high-value electronics

When Lisa Stafford first applied to the Innovate UK Young Innovators Award, her company had yet to finalise its USP. TAZAAR was originally a mobile application that could help retailers sell pre-owned electronics by performing hardware and software diagnostics.
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Young Innovators Success Stories: How Shannyce launched her product and found her confidence
Case Study
26/09/2025

Young Innovators Success Stories: How Shannyce launched her product and found her confidence

Shannyce Adamson is reinventing the ubiquitous clothes hanger using innovative and sustainable design principles. Her unique product, Easy Hang, was in the later stages of development when Shannyce applied for the Innovate UK Young Innovators Award.
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Young Innovators Success Stories: Air-purifying concrete raises millions in investment
Case Study
26/09/2025

Young Innovators Success Stories: Air-purifying concrete raises millions in investment

Nottingham-based Dalraj Nijjar started Concrete4Change to help concrete manufacturers, and the construction industry achieve Net Zero. The business is developing novel technology that can permanently lock CO2 into concrete, with no CO2 leakage even after demolition.
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Resource efficiency for resilience and sustainability: Feasibility Studies Briefing Webinar
Event
22/09/2025 Online

Resource efficiency for resilience and sustainability: Feasibility Studies Briefing Webinar

Learn more about this latest funding opportunity from Innovate UK, offering up to £25k per project for innovative feasibility studies in novel, sustainable, low carbon materials and manufacturing, including seaweed processing.
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Using data to better understand neuromuscular diseases
Case Study
25/09/2025

Using data to better understand neuromuscular diseases

The John Walton Muscular Dystrophy Research Centre (JWMDRC) are partners in the Horizon Europe-funded PaLADIn project, which looks to use patient data to better understand neuromuscular diseases. This research could lead to therapies that address what really matters to patients, potentially improving lives around the world.
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High Growth AI Accelerator Showcase
Event
04/12/2025 London

High Growth AI Accelerator Showcase

Join Digital Catapult for the final High Growth AI Accelerator Showcase as part of the Innovate UK BridgeAI programme to celebrate the pioneering companies from the UK’s agrifood industry, as they each showcase their artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) solutions.
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Materials Research Exchange 2026
Event
18/02/2026 London

Materials Research Exchange 2026

Don't miss out on this unique gateway to the world of materials research and innovation, featuring an exhibition, investor showcase, and cross-cutting seminars on technology transfer from the UK's world-class research and frontier technology base.
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Global Business Innovation Programme, AI Enhanced Manufacturing USA - Applicant Briefing
Event
16/10/2025 Online

Global Business Innovation Programme, AI Enhanced Manufacturing USA - Applicant Briefing

For innovative AI Enhanced Manufacturing companies looking to build R&D and collaborations and partnerships in the US market.
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Turning farm waste into energy: A scalable biogas solution for poultry
Case Study
23/09/2025

Turning farm waste into energy: A scalable biogas solution for poultry

Lumos Labs is developing a pilot biodigester for Animal Care Nigeria, turning poultry manure into biogas and organic fertiliser - boosting farm sustainability and energy security.
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Moving Together: Inclusivity in Micromobility
Event
14/10/2025 Online

Moving Together: Inclusivity in Micromobility

Join Innovate UK and Connected Places Catapult for an interactive webinar on Inclusivity in Micromobility.
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