Innovate UK

Innovate UK is supporting efforts to ensure the next generation of innovators can access STEM subjects, upon which the future of aerospace and aviation depend. 🎓 UK Research and Innovation's Future Flight Challenge, delivered by Innovate UK and ESRC: Economic and Social Research Council is supporting the aviation #PioneersOfTomorrow through its ‘Closing The Skills Gap’ competition. This support has helped deliver: ✅ The Future Flight Mentoring Project, from ARPAS-UK and Brightside which helps young people from under-represented backgrounds with high-impact online mentoring. ✅ An expansion of InnovateHer’s cybersecurity e-learning programme to girls aged 13-17 across the UK. ✈️ In addition, No Limits, a new digital market place launched by Innovate UK, will be on hand to showcase its new platform at the Careers Hub. No Limits is designed to match people to opportunities and pathways to success in innovation. 🤝 We are pleased to be part of this hub, connecting with so many other organisations looking to support the next generation of innovators. 💡 To find out more about the Future Flight Challenge, visit: https://ow.ly/LN3550SKJrZ #FutureFlight #FIA2024 #ApexOfAviation #Aviation #STEM #Aerospace

🚀 Improving productivity and unlocking SME growth in Liverpool City Region 🚀 Yesterday, Indro Mukerjee, CEO of Innovate UK, and Dean Cook, MBA, FRSB, Executive Director for Place at Innovate UK, visited Heap & Partners Ltd. with Steve Rotheram, Mayor of the Liverpool City Region, John Whaling, Lead Officer – Innovation and Commericalisation at Liverpool City Region Combined Authority, and Lisa Ashby-Dowling, Commercial Broker at Growth Platform. Founded in 1866, Heap & Partners Ltd in Birkenhead, is a designer & manufacturer of industrial valves and instrumentation equipment. With funding from the Innovate UK Launchpad programme, our support has enabled the business to improve its productivity through: 🔬 The development of a new range of advanced material hygienic diaphragms that can be commercially manufactured in the UK. 🦾 The enhancement of manufacturing quality and the simplification of complex supply chains. ♻️ Delivering cost savings and environmental benefits to many industries within the supply chain. Innovate UK is dedicated to amplifying local economic strengths by ensuring our products and services align with the needs of innovative businesses. The Innovate UK Launchpad Programme has been a key element in this joint mission with the Combined Authority. Our Launchpads enable us to locally target tailored support to SMEs’, giving many of them their first step onto the ladder of the wider Innovate UK support available. Liverpool City Region was the focus of a national pilot Launchpad on advanced manufacturing, with digital technologies and net zero outcomes. Co-created in partnership with the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority. The programme, opened in September 2022, has supported a cluster of small and medium sized enterprises and 37 of the most innovative received a share of £7.5 million to progress their ideas towards commercial success, boosting local economic growth. We would like to thank Andrew Will of Heap & Partners Ltd, and his team for their warm welcome and showcasing how the Launchpad programme can provide that boost to businesses wherever they are on their innovation journey. 🔗 Discover more about the Launchpad Programme: https://ow.ly/ijtH50SKIzO 🔗 Learn more about our partnership and Action Plan with Liverpool City Region, and more: https://ow.ly/vJC850SKIzM LYVA Labs | #BusinessInnovation #LCRinnovation #InnovationLaunchpads #Launchpads #EconomicGrowth

🚀 Driving Economic Growth and Innovation in Liverpool City Region 🚀 Yesterday, Indro Mukerjee, CEO of Innovate UK, and Dean Cook, MBA, FRSB, Executive Director for Place at Innovate UK, returned to Liverpool to meet with Steve Rotheram, Mayor of the Liverpool City Region. Building on our partnership and Collaboration Agreement with the Region, this meeting focused on: 👉 Aligning our Strategies as we plan for the future 🤝 Reinforcing our Partnership and our commitment to working together locally, including: 🌿 Delivering Clean Energy through initiatives that unlock the region’s potential as ‘Britain’s Renewable Energy Coast’. 📈 Fuelling Innovation-Led Economic Growth to attract new businesses, boost international trade & direct foreign investment and to create new jobs across the city region. In 2022 we launched together the Liverpool City Region Partnership Plan (link in comments). Summarising our achievements so far: 🌍 Supported on net zero: we have reignited the fire of glass manufacturing and given the green light to zero carbon homes. 🥗 Supported on healthy living: we are continuing to support regional strengths for tackling infectious diseases. 🦾 Supported on advanced manufacturing: we are improving productivity and unlocking SME growth through our launchpad programme. The visit also included meeting Andrew Will of Heap & Partners Ltd. a beneficiary of Launchpad funding, developing advanced hygienic diaphragms for valves to be designed and manufactured from their facility in Birkenhead. Learn more about our partnership and Action Plan with Liverpool City Region, and more 👉 https://ow.ly/qJRc50SKI8Z Discover more about the Launchpad Programme 👉 https://ow.ly/cu0O50SKI90 LYVA Labs | Growth Platform | Liverpool City Region Combined Authority #BusinessInnovation #LCRinnovation #InnovationLaunchpads #Launchpads #EconomicGrowth

🗣 "Innovate UK’s partnership with Make UK is a great opportunity to further support innovative start-ups and scale-ups to develop across manufacturing sectors. Our joint work will focus on connecting SMEs with primes and OEMs to support growth and resilient supply chains.   This strategic collaboration between the two organisations will be developed across all sectors and throughout the UK to support productivity growth." ~ Indro Mukerjee, CEO of Innovate UK 

🌍 Innovate UK plays a vital role in scaling UK aerospace businesses globally, helping them to access knowledge, develop new partnerships, and explore international innovation opportunities. The Innovate UK Aerospace Team’s international programmes offer a range of support, including: ✅ Building your knowledge about other countries through the insights we can provide; ✅ Establishing relationships with businesses, research organisations, investors, and governments in other countries; ✅ Supporting collaboration with international partners to innovate together; ✅ Exploring innovation opportunities and future market potential. ✈️ The most significant UK aerospace engagement in international funding is through the EU Science, Research and Innovation Horizon Europe programme. With Innovate UK’s support, UK aerospace businesses have been particularly successful in applying for and being awarded funding in the aerospace and aviation sectors. 💰 With 111 UK aerospace and aviation organisations having already won 111 grants worth over £103m through Horizon Europe, Innovate UK’s support can help you achieve success both in the UK and globally. Find out how we can help your business grow 👉 https://ow.ly/uRF050SK0Sq 🇪🇺 The UK has associated with the EU’s Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Programme, meaning UK organisations are fully eligible to apply for funding from Horizon Europe competitions, and if successful, will be funded by the EU on the same basis as organisations from EU Member States. For information and support to engage with Horizon Europe, contact Louise Mothersole, the Horizon Europe UK National Contact Point for Transport and Mobility, to find out more. Kerissa Khan FRAeS, Future Flight Innovation Lead, has also spoken today at the Global Urban & Advanced Air Summit (GUAAS) as part of Farnborough International Airshow about disruptive aviation technologies. #FutureFlight #FIA2024 #ApexOfAviation #Aerospace #Aviation #Innovation

Collaboration for the future of UK manufacturing 🚀 Today, Indro Mukerjee, CEO of Innovate UK, and Stephen Phipson CBE, CEO of Make UK, forged a strategic partnership to connect some of the most exciting innovators in the UK with some of the UK’s leading manufacturers to boost growth, by facilitating product access, R&D partnerships and increasing connections. By bringing together Innovate UK’s portfolio of innovative companies and Make UK’s network of industry leading manufacturers, we create a unique opportunity to: ✅ Connect innovators with manufacturers for product access and R&D partnerships. ✅ Build strong community partnerships to streamline UK support. ✅ Develop new technologies, businesses, and job opportunities in the UK. ✅ Shape and inform future industrial strategy and investments. Through strategic partnerships such as this, helping businesses wherever they are on their innovation pathway; from concept through start up to commercialisation, scale and growth, we are shaping the future of our UK economy. Our Innovate UK Materials and Manufacturing vision 2050 gives a dynamic overview of the Advanced Manufacturing sector, and what action is needed to make the UK a leading, world-class destination for advanced low carbon manufacturing. Help us to improve and shape our vision by sharing your feedback on a future edition with us. 🔗 Find out more about this event, view Innovate UK’s Materials and Manufacturing Vision 2050, and more: https://ow.ly/fkhg50SJp9N Leonardo | JLR | ICE | High Value Manufacturing Catapult | Lynne O'Hare | Nathan Earland | Dominic Endicott | Keith Dear #BusinessInnovation #UKManufacturing #Manufacturing #Innovation

Building and strengthening global relationships opens more opportunities for the UK. Innovate UK is working closely with Australia on net zero initiatives, recently funding business-led collaborations to reduce the cost of clean hydrogen. The UK Research and Innovation Faraday Battery Challenge, delivered by Innovate UK, is partnering with CSIRO's Battery Manufacturing team in Melbourne and the Green Critical Minerals team in Perth. This partnership includes a visit from UK battery technology companies to Australia in October which aims to strengthen and expand our collaboration with CSIRO in battery technology, driving forward our shared net zero goals. Working with the Energy Systems Catapult, part of the Innovate UK Catapult Network, we are also providing CSIRO’s Smart Energy team with in-kind support to establish the National Energy Analysis Centre Living Lab. This initiative will create a real-life energy laboratory in thousands of Australian homes, accelerating our pathway towards decarbonisation and fostering innovation in energy transformation. Read more here - https://ow.ly/k8PU50SJhV4

Innovate UK is driving productivity and economic growth by supporting businesses to develop and realise the potential of new ideas. 🔎 Future flight technologies could help make UK-wide transportation systems more sustainable and increase economic opportunities. These are the findings of two new studies from YouGov Sciencewise and Thinks Insight & Strategy around public perceptions of drone technology. The studies are part of the Future Flight Social Science Research Programme, led by the University of Birmingham and commissioned by UK Research and Innovation Future Flight Challenge, delivered by Innovate UK and ESRC: Economic and Social Research Council The research shows: ✅ 95% of the British public are aware of drone technology but far fewer have heard about advanced air mobility (28%) or electric/hydrogen regional air mobility (24%). ✅ Many believe that future flight technologies will benefit the emergency services, improve access to isolated communities, reduce fossil fuel usage and create new jobs. ✅ Around three in five (59%) see that innovation involving lower-emission flight technologies is important to tackling climate change. Future Flight is a key theme of this year’s Farnborough International Airshow. Visit the Future Flight Challenge team at Booth 1110, to learn more about how they are helping transform Advanced Air Mobility (AAM), drones, and zero-emission regional air mobility in the UK. Read the findings from both studies in full here: https://ow.ly/wNjS50SIZjS #FutureFlight #FIA2024 #ApexOfAviation #Aerospace #Aviation #AdvancedAirMobility

🧫🔬🦠 We’re excited to announce the winners of the Innovate UK Biomedical Catalyst feasibility grants! 33 early stage companies will share £3.2m to help them progress their innovative projects in the fields of: ➡️ Femtech ➡️ Child health ➡️ Neurotech ➡️ Microbials The Biomedical Catalyst is one of Innovate UK’s flagship grant funding mechanisms. It enables SMEs to test and develop innovative health and care solutions across health and life sciences, including therapeutics, medical devices, and digital health. These winners participated in the pilot accelerators run by the Biomedical Catalyst in 2023. Through a closed feasibility competition, they received financial support to assess the technical and commercial viability of their early-stage projects.. Examples include: Founders Factory Children’s Health Impact Accelerator Tutti Toot Ltd's project to test its Trumpet device. The device delivers a musically gamified dysfunctional breathing retraining course for asthmatic children. Health Innovation Network South London Accelerating FemTech Accelerator Bloomful has developed an online gynaecological condition triage tool called Lana, to help women understand symptoms and make the right decisions for their health. Microbials (Microbiome, Biofilms & Phage) Accelerator, delivered by LYVA Labs and Bionow BugBiome is developing a microbial mosquito repellent. Neurotech Accelerator, delivered by Pioneer Group and The Helix Way Samphire Neuroscience's pilot of its Nettle headband in clinical settings. The headband uses non-invasive neuromodulation to directly target brain regions responsible for menstrual symptoms. Read the full story here - https://ow.ly/yQ7U50SIYS5 The next round of Biomedical Catalyst accelerators, in femtech and artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare, will be launching in September. Sign up for updates from Innovate UK Business Connect on this and other health news 🗞️ - https://ow.ly/ZTaB50SIYZW #BiomedicalCatalyst #Grants #Funding #Femtech #ChildHealth #Neurotech #Microbials #Healthcare

Innovate UK supports game-changing innovation across aerospace and aviation. This week, UK Research and Innovation Future Flight Challenge is at the AtkinsRéalis chalet at Farnborough International Airshow showcasing a range of projects we fund and support. The Future Flight Challenge, delivered by Innovate UK and ESRC: Economic and Social Research Council is funding projects to demonstrate the commercial and operational viability of advanced air mobility (AAM) networks in the UK. 🚁 This includes the Air Mobility Ecosystem Consortium (AMEC), enabling demonstration flights of drone technology between a new Skyports Infrastructure vertiport and Heathrow, Bristol Airport, London City Airport with support from Cranfield University NATS and University of Warwick Together, we are working towards the world’s first ever electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) flight between urban hubs, and the UK’s first AAM demonstration flight. The Future Flight Challenge is also working on other innovative projects, including beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) aviation systems and drone operations, with company Atkins. 💡 Want to hear more? Join us at the Farnborough International Airshow, at Booth 1110, to see demonstrations of the latest aerospace and aviation innovations or click here 👉 https://ow.ly/79T650SHZMV #FutureFlight #FIA2024 #ApexOfAviation #Aerospace #Aviation #Drones #Innovation