The buzz around net zero
What is net zero? Well if you’re uncertain, you’re not alone.
In latest polling, a majority of UK people now say they have heard of it, but only 4% said they knew a lot about it...
ISCF
Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund
How COVID-19 is affecting industry innovation in the UK
It’s astonishing the difference nine months can make in business. The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic may well leave its mark on UK industry and innovation in a way no other crisis has before and will continue to do so for many years to come.
From dealing with lockdown conditions in March, to establishing safer ways of working now, different UK industries are adapting and innovating to build a completely new working world.
How Driving the Electric Revolution is tackling the ED&I mission
The Driving the Electric Revolution Challenge’s (DER) vision fully embraces the UKRI Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (ED&I) mission to become a leader in ensuring ED&I becomes business as usual through succinct direction, embedded culture where everyone is valued and is given the opportunity to contribute.
It is lived, breathed, and felt through everything we do as a challenge.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund
Improving as we go Having trained as a physiotherapist, I have worked in the NHS over the last 10 years and I have seen first-hand the effects social inequalities can have on people’s health and wellbeing. My interracial marriage is …
Modernising Energy Data Applications
Major projects funded through the through the Prospering from the Energy Revolution programme are demonstrating that data and digital solutions are vital components needed to deliver new markets and business models in our local energy systems. Utilising data enables us …
Robotics: creating a safer world
Three years ago we launched the £93 million Robots for a Safer World challenge, part of the first wave of the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF). The challenge was to develop safer and more productive technologies for working in extreme environments, in industries such as Nuclear Decommissioning, Offshore Wind Energy and Space.
Find out about the highlights and about some of the business-led fast-start grants to robotics projects responding directly to the Covid-19 crisis.
Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging – funding future solutions
Here we have it then, it’s Recycle Week and what better way to show our support than by taking the covers off the first set of projects that the ISCF Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging (SSPP) Challenge is funding over the …
Transforming the design and delivery of schools
Meet one of our pioneering projects - SEISMIC, funded via the ISCF Transforming Construction challenge that is changing the way schools are built. The project shows how to build better quality schools that can be constructed faster, for less cost and with lower emissions.
Innovations in Energy Efficient Process Development for the Foundation Industries
Sarah Connolly, Innovation Technologist at Innovate UK is responsible for driving innovation in the Foundation Industries. In this post, she explores how innovations in process developments can reduce environmental impact and improve competitiveness. Energy Efficient Process Developments The foundation industries …
Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund - Investing for Impact
Four years ago, we launched the Government and UKRI’s flagship, business-led Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund. It is a new approach to funding challenges ranging from net zero, health and wellbeing through to advancing technologies, aiming to create a better world for us all.