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...
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Eleven of the brightest minds in business awarded Future Leaders Fellowships
UKRI’s Future Leaders Fellowships (FLFs) scheme has awarded 11 successful candidates based within innovative UK businesses, as part of it’s £109 million investment in research and innovation leaders of the future. During their fellowships, the Future Leaders will undertake ambitious …
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 …
Collective innovation
Collective innovation can allow sectors to cooperate and trust to be created, and can even spur focused competition while increasing market size.
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.
Future Leaders Fellowships are open for business
The Future Leaders Fellowships (FLFs) are back for another round, to fund the most promising researchers and innovators from business and academia with up to £1.5m over four years. We are now looking for the next cohort of talented future leaders to apply for the …
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 …