Innovate UK has published a brochure showing how it and its partner organisations drive innovation and help businesses meet challenges in the clean growth and infrastructure sectors. The document outlines the impact that the business support network has had including significant investments in the UK and support for overseas projects. Innovate UK’s business support partners include the Knowledge Transfer Network, Enterprise Europe Network, the Catapult Network, Innovation and Knowledge Centres and the Urban Living Partnership. Read more: https://www.ktn-uk.co.uk/news/clean-growth-and-infrastructure-brochure-how-innovate-uk-and-its-partners-drive-innovation

1. Helping UK
businesses
innovate faster
Innovate UK drives productivity and economic growth by supporting
businesses to develop and realise the potential of new ideas.
We connect businesses to the partners, customers and investors that
can help them turn ideas into commercially successful products and
services and business growth.
We fund business and research collaborations to accelerate innovation
and drive business investment into R&D. Our support is available to
businesses across all economic sectors,value chains and UK regions.
Innovate UK is part of UK Research and Innovation.
For more information visit innovateuk.ukri.org
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Email: support@innovateuk.ukri.org
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2. Core
funding
for
centres
Clean growth and infrastructure:
helping business
meet the challenges
mixed grant &
venture capital
projects
received
with Shanghai
and Jiangsu
joint
projects
More than
£300
million
for future
ISCF projects
missions
2015
invested in
2017/2018
More than
£115 million
supported in
innovative
projects
2017/2018
for‘first of
a kind’trials
£27
million
since
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Introduction 4
How we drive innovation 6
Trialling technology 8
in the real world
Tackling the 10
energy ‘trilemma’
Innovation is for all 12
Supporting offshore 13
wind energy
Working with 14
partners overseas
Helping business meet 16
public sector challenges
Helping business 18
to find investors
Catapults are transforming 19
UK capability
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3. successes of just a few of the
businesses we have supported
over the last few years.
Investing £1.7
billion in research
and development
We will be playing a big part
in delivering the Industrial
Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF)
over the next 4 years, a £1.7
billion investment in research
and development that will help
UK businesses to meet some
of the biggest challenges facing
the economy.
It is a key part of the
government’s new industrial
strategy, which sets 4 grand
challenges for the UK.
One of those grand challenges
is clean growth – maximising
the advantages for UK industry
from the global shift to clean
growth.
A number of specific ISCF
challenges come under this
banner, and we will be
supporting them with funding
competitions and with events
to help businesses and other
organisations to come together
to tackle the challenges.
Prospering from the
energy revolution
Up to £41.5 million is already
available to develop smart local
energy systems that support
the global shift to clean energy.
Watch out for funding
competitions in areas such as
development of smart energy
systems and local
demonstrators, and for
announcements on more
funding.
Transforming construction
Up to £170 million is available
to more quickly provide safer,
healthier and more affordable
places to live and learn that
use dramatically less energy.
This challenge will bring together
the construction, manufacturing,
energy and digital sectors to
revolutionise how we deliver
the buildings the UK needs.
Transforming food production
Up to £90 million is available
to help businesses and
researchers to change the way
we produce food through the
adoption of new technologies
and innovation.
Enterprise Europe Network,
which helps innovative small
businesses to access new
markets and funding.
We have joined with the
7 research councils to form
the Urban Living Partnership.
It supports businesses, academics
and city governments in coming
together to apply a ‘whole city’
approach to the challenges faced
by urban areas. The partnership
has supported pilot projects in
Bristol, Newcastle, Leeds, York
and Birmingham.
Our work creates
jobs and growth
We see the results of our
support in increased
employment, business growth,
new contracts, partnerships
with overseas business, and
stronger networks. Wider
benefits include working towards
making our cities better places to
live and work, making our energy
supplies secure, clean and
affordable, and ensuring our
infrastructure is resilient and fit
for the future.
The following pages outline
opportunities available to
business and highlight the
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We support
business
innovation
We support risky business
innovation that has high-growth
potential and can transform our
essential infrastructure.
Last year, we invested more than
£115 million in innovative
projects in the fields of clean
growth and infrastructure and
in core funding for Offshore
Renewable Energy, Future Cities,
Energy Systems and Transport
Systems Catapults and other
centres.
Our support aims to drive
business innovation and help
organisations to test and deploy
potential solutions to the
challenges they face. We also
bring people together to address
the challenges both across the
UK and between the UK and
overseas including partners in
Asia, North and South America
and Europe.
Our Knowledge Transfer
Network helps to bring together
people with an interest in
innovation and has special
interest groups in the areas we
support. We also co-fund the
Introduction
Innovate UK is part of UK
Research and Innovation and
works with people, companies,
and partner organisations to
find and drive the science and
technology innovations that
will grow the UK economy.
Our aim is to support forward-
thinking UK companies to scale
and grow by developing the
technologies that will address
challenges such as population
growth, urbanisation, digitisation,
and threats to the environment.
We recognise the challenges
businesses and public services
face to innovate. It is not easy
to integrate complex and
disparate systems, adapt to
technological and societal
change, and develop the new
business models required to
deliver novel services. That is
why we are here to help.
The UK has cut its emissions
by 42 per cent since 1990
and grown its economy
by two-thirds in the same
timeframe. Cutting carbon
emissions should not be seen
as a tradeoff with economic
growth. Developing clean
energy, more efficient ways
of travelling, better urban
systems for our towns and
cities, and smarter
infrastructure are all ways
we can drive economic growth
for the UK.
42%
reduction in carbon
emissions since 1990
and a 66% growth
in UK economy
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We took SMEs on a future cities mission to Australia

4. How we
drive innovation
Our work in clean growth
and infrastructure helps
to build new energy,
infrastructure, connected
transport and urban
systems to meet societal
challenges. We support
businesses on innovative
projects that are risky but
have the potential to
support UK economic
growth and have a
transformative effect
on society.
Our priority areas for support in
the sector competitions were:
• energy systems and
energy supply
• connected transport
• urban living
• smart and resilient
infrastructure
We have run 4 funding
competitions and provided
businesses with access to
£54.5 million in funding support,
matched by industry. We funded
100 innovative projects in the
first 3 rounds.
The first innovation loan pilot
was worth £10 million and
was targeted at infrastructure
systems. This gave small or
medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)
working on late-stage
infrastructure systems projects
the first opportunity to access
Innovate UK’s new alternative
financial support scheme.
Check here for the latest
Innovate UK funding
opportunities
https://apply-for-innovation-
funding.service.gov.uk
competition/search
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Howwedriveinnovation
Verv:
Putting the 'smart'
in smart home
Data scientists Verv won £68,000
to investigate their idea to use
their machine learning
algorithms and expertise in
electricity data to modernise
fault detection and the repair
of large household appliances
such as washing machines.
The average UK household
disposes of £800 worth of
electrical devices and appliances
each year. It is believed that 40%
of them could be repaired, but
the cost of repair often exceeds
the cost of replacement.
Verv, formed out of Green
Running, recently raised
£1.2 million on Crowdcube
to allow it to scale up
manufacturing of its smart home
hub, which will identify
appliances that are deteriorating
before they break and even
provide details about where
appliance faults lie.
The Verv hub is also being
developed to enable customers
to trade their excess renewable
energy directly with their
neighbours at an affordable cost,
thus improving access
to green energy.
4sector competitions
with access to £54.5 million
of funding support
138innovative projects funded
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nquiringminds:
Revolutionising
home care
Smart cities and data analytics
tech company, nquiringminds,
is leading a £1.5 million project
to develop CareTeam – an
innovative way to provide care in
the home using data and linking
carers and family through a
secure data analytics platform
and mobile app.
Financial pressures and growing
demand are placing a huge strain
on home care services
in the UK.
nquiringminds is working with
the University of Southampton
and Southampton City Council
to develop a social platform
that improves efficiency by
integrating unpaid and voluntary
care with state and self-funded
care.
“We’re on a mission
to make homes
smarter and more
efficient. We aim
to reduce the
environmental
impact and energy
bills of every home
by tackling energy
at its core.”
Peter Davies
chief executive
Green Running
It also commissions care in
smaller packages so that more
services can be provided more
effectively and a better
relationship can be formed
between the carer and the
cared-for.
Three other local authorities
are in discussions to roll out
the CareTeam platform for
their residents.
“Sharing data
between citizens
and organisations,
in a privacy centric
way, will be key
to getting the
community fully
involved in tackling
the crisis in home
care services.”
Nick Allott
chief executive
nquiringminds

5. Lynkeos Technology is trialling
its state-of-the-art 3D Muon
Imaging System at the National
Nuclear Laboratory facility
at Sellafield.
There is a growing amount
of nuclear waste stored globally
in secure drums. Conventional
technologies such as X-rays
cannot be used to monitor
the insides of these shielded
containers.
The Muon Imaging System is a
non-invasive imaging technology.
It uses naturally occurring and
highly penetrating charged
particles called muons to identify
different materials such as
uranium and concrete based
on their density. It uses naturally
occurring and highly penetrating
charged particles called muons
to identify different materials
such as uranium and concrete
based on their density. It is ideal
for monitoring the state of
nuclear waste in shielded
containers.
“There is no
alternative
technology that
provides a similar
imaging capability.
Decommissioning
of nuclear waste and
establishments will
cost over £80 billion
in the UK alone.
Our technology will
be able to support
this effort by
improving safety
and by offering
significant cost and
time savings.”
Professor Ralf Kaiser
chief executive
Lynkeos Technology
Lynkeos
Technology:
Safer and
cheaper nuclear
decommissioning
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Vivacity Labs:
Combatting
congestion
Video analytics expert Vivacity
Labs is trialling a city-wide
transport sensor system in
Milton Keynes.
The system uses video and latest
technology to accurately detect,
analyse and predict traffic
movement. It can gather and
analyse data on how busy
a city is including data on public
transport, roads, pedestrians,
cycling areas, and car parking,
and deliver it in real time.
Mark Nicholson, chief executive
of Vivacity Labs, said:
“We have built a hugely detailed
understanding of dynamic traffic
demands in Milton Keynes.
We understand how traffic
accidents redistribute traffic
across the network and we are
using this insight and real-time
knowledge of the network to
create the world’s first proactive
urban traffic management
system.
“We are now
pushing our system
into other areas
around the UK and
beyond. Recent
projects have
started in Oxford,
Cambridge and
Manchester.”
Mark Nicholson
chief executive
Vivacity Labs
Projects supported
by Innovate UK’s clean
growth and infrastructure
team have been trialling
their technologies in
real-world situations
for the first time over
the last year.
We invested £27 million in 20
‘first of a kind’ projects that could
make a real difference to energy,
connected transport, and urban
infrastructure.
They ranged from schemes
to make electric charging
of vehicles easier, to using old
electric vehicle batteries for
storing power, monitoring
of nuclear waste, and tackling
transport congestion using
video analytics.
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Trialling
technology
in the real
world

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Cubic gallium nitride opens up
new opportunities for LED
lighting as it significantly
increases efficiency in the green
spectrum – the number 1
technical target of the US
Department of Energy for
increasing use of LEDs.
Anvil and the university have
spun out a new company to
exploit the technology.
They hope to license it to large
LED companies within 2 years.
“The LED work was
very speculative
indeed. We would
never have
persuaded our
shareholders it was a
good way to spend
money had we not
had an Innovate UK
grant.”
Jill Shaw
chief executive
Anvil Semiconductors
Anvil
Semiconductors:
lighting the way
Power device developer Anvil
Semiconductors and its partners
the University of Cambridge and
Plessey Semiconductors have
come up with a way of cutting
the cost of LED lighting and
increasing its efficiency.
Energy Catalyst funding helped
the partners to demonstrate that
it was possible to grow cubic
gallium nitride on a cubic silicon
carbide wafer used for
semiconductors.
Pictured below:
Dr Martin Frentrup
Professor David Wallis
Jill Shaw
Dr Menno Kappers
Tackling
the energy
‘trilemma’
OakTec:
environmentally
friendly engines
UK engineering business
OakTec is on the verge of
commercialising a new
high-performance, low-cost
and environmentally friendly
gas engine that has applications
for electricity generation
and as a range-extender
for electric vehicles.
OakTec’s Pulse-RTM engine
has a high tolerance to poor
fuel quality, which makes it
particularly suited to growing
global markets for burning
bio-gas fuels. It was developed
with support from the
Energy Catalyst.
The engine can be bolted on
to a micro-digester to generate
electricity. It is also particularly
suited for use in generators and
equipment on construction sites,
where use of petrol is considered
dangerous, and diesel is
becoming less acceptable
because of soot, particulate and
noise emissions.
OakTec is working on a further
Energy Catalyst project with
engine-supply business E P
Barrus that will develop a
multi-cylinder Pulse-RTM
for use in generators in
developing economies.
Paul Andrews, Chief Executive
of OakTec, said: “We have made
an effort to use all the support
available to us through the
Innovate UK family because
it’s extremely useful.”
The Energy Catalyst was
set up in 2013 by Innovate
UK, the Engineering and
Physical Sciences Research
Council, and the
Department of Energy
and Climate Change
(now part of the
Department for Business,
Energy & Industrial
Strategy). The Department
for International
Development became
a co-funder in 2016.
The Catalyst supports innovation
that aims to solve the global
energy ‘trilemma’ of the need for
energy supply to be low carbon,
secure, and affordable.
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Tacklingtheenergy‘trilemma’
Pictured below:
Michael Andrews engine design intern
Paul Andrews chief executive
Tom Harrison commercial director

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Supporting
offshore
wind energy
Intrepid Minds:
spotting defects
in wind turbines
Research and development
consultancy Intrepid Minds
developed with Innovate UK
support a system to spot
potential defects on offshore
wind turbines before they fail.
Sensors on a turbine detect the
small deflections and vibrations
associated with defects, and
a drone permanently situated
inside the blade is launched
to perform a local inspection.
A new drone platform, Nest,
has been developed to house
both aerial and sub-surface
drones for external inspections.
Both external and internal
drones work together
in a swarm formation.
The development of longer
endurance sub-sea drones,
such as Amnis (pictured below),
also means that the system
is able to monitor the new
breed of floating turbines.
The company has won an
opportunity to trial the
system with a wind farm
operator after applying
to the Offshore Wind
Innovation Exchange.
The Offshore Wind
Innovation Exchange
is a pilot programme
run by our Knowledge
Transfer Network and
the Offshore Renewable
Energy Catapult.
It gives businesses the
opportunity to work directly
with offshore wind farm
operators and manufacturers
on the challenges they face
and help them to reduce the
costs of building and operation.
Amnis sub-sea drone
Adam Smith managing director
Intrepid Minds
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Innovationisforall
Innovate UK is committed
to supporting people from
a variety of backgrounds
and walks of life to
innovate and succeed
in business.
Our first diversity and inclusion
campaign, Women in Innovation,
was launched in 2016.
Winners of the competition
received £50,000, a tailored
business support package and
mentoring from a well-known
business leader.
A new collaboration between
Innovate UK and the Prince’s
Trust, Ideas Mean Business,
is offering financial support
and advice to 18-30 year-olds
to help them to realise an
innovative idea.
Innovation
is for all
Beth was a finalist in the Women
in Innovation awards and won
a year of business mentoring.
She is leading an Innovate
UK-supported project into
designing and building a mini
hydrogen dispenser that could
be fitted into breakdown
recovery vehicles.
Beth Dawson:
Fuel Cell Systems
Beth Dawson is a project
manager at Fuel Cell Systems,
a business that designs and
installs fuel cell energy solutions.
The number of hydrogen
fuel cell vehicles on UK roads is
expected to grow over time and
breakdown vans will need to be
able to top up stranded vehicles.
Beth added: “The Women
in Innovation mentoring
programme has been incredibly
helpful, both to me personally
and also for our business.
The workshop topics were well
thought-through and also
enjoyable networking events.
The business-specific sessions
we had with members of the
KTN and EEN really helped to
give us clarity on our strategy
and our product offerings.
We put a lot into the last year
but we certainly received a
great deal in return – thank you,
Innovate UK.”

8. “Without doubt,
the California
experience has
enabled us to
enter the US
biofuels market
more broadly.”
Gillian Harrison
chief executive
Whitefox Technologies
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joint projects
with Shanghai
and Jiangsu
“Across the world
cities are experiencing
the same issues of
urbanisation –
congestion, pollution,
the need to invest in
infrastructure.
Citi Logik and Matrix
Traffic analytics
enable city planners
to make smarter
choices about
resource allocation
when pressures on
public finances mean
that they must do
more with less.”
Stephen Leece
Citi Logik
Breaking into
global urban
services market
We took 15 entrepreneurs to
Sydney and Melbourne on a
mission to promote collaboration
between business in the UK and
Australia working on advanced
urban services.
Sydney and Melbourne have
both made significant progress
in sustainable living and smart
infrastructure.
Delegates had the opportunity
to meet potential customers,
partners and investors and
to attend workshops and
explore export opportunities.
Citi Logik, a business that has
developed an urban analysis
platform for public services
with longstanding Innovate UK
support signed a new partnership
with Australia's Matrix Traffic
and Transport Data Limited
during the mission.
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Three US plants have already
installed Whitefox ICE™
successfully, and Whitefox has
contracts for another 4 in the US.
Working with
partners overseas
Whitefox
Technologies:
On a mission
to succeed
UK engineering company
Whitefox Technologies has
successfully exploited market
opportunities in the United
States after attending Clean and
Cool missions in San Francisco
and Brazil.
The missions helped them to
gain knowledge in the biofuels
industry and gave them the
confidence to pitch their
membrane-based technology
to US biofuel producer Pacific
Ethanol and secure a deal.
Since the Pacific Ethanol
deal was announced Whitefox
Technologies has had a stream
of new inquiries from North
American and European
businesses interested in how
the technology reduces waste,
emissions and cost.
European SOLAR-ERA.NET
solar electricity technologies
programme.
In 2017 we ran our first
bilateral funding competitions
with Shanghai and Jiangsu,
resulting in 7 infrastructure
and future cities projects.
We also work with the Newton
Fund, which aims to build
research collaborations between
UK businesses and overseas
partners that promote economic
development and social welfare
in official development
assistance countries.
We help businesses to
work with overseas
partners in a number
of ways.
Overseas missions help UK
businesses to meet potential
customers, partners and investors
in other countries.
Over the last few years, we
have run several Clean and Cool
missions to the United States and
Brazil. They involved
75 cleantech SMEs that
secured £650 million in sales
and investment following
the missions.
We have also run three recent
urban living missions to Australia,
Malaysia and Singapore for more
than 40 businesses working in the
urban living sector.
We help UK businesses to take
part in European research and
development programmes such
as Horizon 2020 and support joint
funding competitions under the
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Workingwithpartnersoverseas
75
cleantech SMEs secured
£650 million in sales
and investment
Whitefox Directors:
Gillian Harrison
Trond Heggenhougen
Alan Stewart

9. CorrosionRADAR:
sensing a good
investment
Remote-sensing business
CorrosionRADAR won a £104,000
Innovate UK award and secured
a further £250,000 investment
from early-stage technology
investor Mercia Fund Managers
in our investment accelerator
pilot.
The funding will allow the
company to develop its novel
technology for sensing and
monitoring corrosion and
‘corrosion under insulation’ in oil
and gas pipelines and assets and
to gain commercial partners for
field tests.
The technology could help asset
owners to reduce costs and
increase environmental and
safety standards.
“The team at
CorrosionRADAR
is committed
to creating a
game-changing
solution for tackling
corrosion
management and
we are looking
forward to working
with Mercia, which
is supporting us
through this
exciting journey.”
Dr Chiraz Ennaceur
chief executive
CorrosionRADAR
Helping business
to find investors
Businesses with innovative
products and services
often find it hard to make
that final jump to
commercialisation because
they cannot raise the
funds they need to invest.
In 2017, we ran a successful
investment accelerator pilot
that combined our funding with
venture capital investment.
The aim was to promote the
earliest possible decisions on
funding and investment by
bringing together our expertise
in identifying and funding the
most promising innovations with
the financial sector’s ability to
spot commercial opportunities
and support businesses with the
greatest potential for growth.
Businesses with innovative ideas
also had the opportunity to pitch
to investors at one of our new
investor showcases.
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Helping business meet public sector challenges
“We're very excited
about the potential
of bringing the best
data science
applications to bear
on important public
services. It’s already
an incredibly useful
tool for
hard-pressed
government leaders,
and we hope to roll
it out more widely
in 2018"
Francine Bennett
chief executive and co-founder
Mastodon C
Witan platform aims to help
make this a reality across the
UK and more widely.
Mastodon C also applies its
expertise and platforms with
public sector organisations such
as NHS England, and corporate
organisations such as large
specialty insurers.
Mastodon C:
Helping
government to
improve lives with
big data
Data science business Mastodon
C is helping local and central
government to strategically
plan services with a new
decision-making platform,
thanks to a £2 million
SBRI contract.
The company developed and
tested the system with the
Greater London Authority (GLA)
and several county councils
and London boroughs. It is now
being used by government
to explore special educational
needs and social care demand
projections, budget and
commissioning needs, and policy
options, as well as to provide a
secure data storage and data
sharing backbone for the GLA
and other agencies.
Data sharing, modelling,
and projections are a critical part
of modern government, and the
We work with government
departments and agencies
to join them with
innovative businesses
that can help them to
meet their challenges.
The main way we do this
is through SBRI (Small Business
Research Initiative).
Contracts are awarded to a
range of projects that look
at the feasibility of their idea.
The best ideas usually get
a second contract to develop
them further.
We have recently helped the
Nuclear Decommissioning
Authority to run SBRI
competitions to help them
find new and innovative ways
to make decommissioning
of nuclear facilities safer and
more cost-effective.
Helping business
meet public sector
challenges

10. Transport Systems Catapult
The Transport Systems Catapult
drives the development of
intelligent mobility – the smarter,
greener, safer and more efficient
movement of people and goods
around the world. This includes
improving customer experience,
transport data analysis and
exploitation, automation and
autonomy in transport systems,
smart infrastructure and
connectivity, and disruptive
business models. It has delivered
127 projects and welcomed more
than 1,800 businesses to its
innovation centre.
Innovation and
Knowledge Centres
Innovation and knowledge
centres provide support for the
commercialisation of emerging
technologies. They are based
in universities, led by an expert
entrepreneurial team and
co-funded by research councils.
We support the Cambridge
Centre for Smart Infrastructure
and Construction.
(www-smartinfrastructure.eng.
cam.ac.uk) and SPECIFIC
(buildings as power stations),
based in Swansea Bay
(www.specific.eu.com).
Offshore Renewable
Energy Catapult
The Offshore Renewable Energy
Catapult supports improvements
in the operation of existing wind
farms and the development of
new wind farm technologies.
In 2016/17, it supported
134 SMEs, worked on testing and
validation with 51 companies,
was involved in 35 international
projects, and had 94 active
research and development
projects.
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Future Cities Catapult
The Future Cities Catapult brings
together businesses, universities
and city leaders to work on
solving the problems that cities
face, now and in the future.
It has worked with more
than a dozen UK cities on more
than 42 projects and supported
600 small businesses. It has
delivered projects in 22 countries.
Energy Systems Catapult
The Energy Systems Catapult
helps innovators to grasp the
opportunities from the transition
to a clean, intelligent energy
system. It is delivering the UK’s
largest smart, consumer-focussed
programme to decarbonise
residential heating. The Energy
Systems Catapult has worked
closely with more than
200 organisations in the last
12 months and broadened
its reach to 2,000 businesses
through its partnership with
the Energy Innovation Centre.
The Catapult centres are
a network of 10 world-
leading centres that work
with business, researchers
and government to
transform the UK’s
capability for innovation
in specific areas and help
drive future economic
growth. The Catapult
network was set up by
Innovate UK, and we
provide core funding
for their operation.
We also support other
centres that aim to
help businesses to
commercialise emerging
technologies.
Catapults are transforming
UK capability
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