Last night my cousin Polly and I cooked up a brilliant (we think) idea for London to eradicate single use coffee cups (Khan’s Cups!). We are not successful innovators, nor likely to be. But she and I are both dyed-in-the-wool …
Innovation steadily replacing tradition Vibrant innovation ecosystems that bring together new, high-value businesses, researchers and related service providers are emerging across Australia and around the world. These places are attracting investors and workers, and generating much-needed economic growth which is …
Innovate UK started its work on Urban Living around 5 years ago. We spoke to a lot of cities in the UK and abroad and asked them what success looked like. They all said pretty much the same thing: sustainable …
The 24th ITS World Congress, which moves around the world each year, is a major global event for all things related to the growing intelligent mobility sector – which covers everything from autonomous vehicles to smart cities and intelligent transportation …
Imagine a world where… Imagine a world where food orders are securely delivered direct to your car boot while you work. Or maybe you’ve given up on owning a car and use a car club which is all electric and …
Challenges to the sustainable development of our world We only have 5 years left at current emission levels if we want a 66% chance of keeping global temperature rise within 1.5ºC. Existing national plans and pledges are nowhere near enough …
There has been a recurring challenge that I’ve faced numerous times over the past three years: how do you describe the Internet of Things (IoT) to someone that has no idea what it’s about? From friends and family, to children …
‘Bringing Big Data to Small Users’ is both an ambitious aspiration as well as a significant new project uniting a multitude of businesses, organisations, public bodies, and communities in town centres across the UK. The project is co-funded by Innovate …
Sustainable development is at the heart of Innovate UK’s strategy and purpose. At Innovate UK we think about the future and what a future economy will look like. A sustainable economy is one that delivers growth while operating within safe …
Building a new solution for social prescribing In 2012, Innovate UK’s Urban Living programme ran a Collaborative R&D funding competition which invited innovators to design solutions based on data integrated from across siloed urban bodies and which could improve the …
