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'What makes a good management team? – the trifecta' the latest #InnovateBlog from Andrew Wade
Senior Credit Specialist, Innovate UK Loans discussing what we look for when assessing management teams in your Innovation Loan application.

👉 http://ow.ly/CXJ950MFlKm

#InnovateLoan

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Read the blog on our Impact Management Framework from Dan Hodges, Deputy Director for Strategy @innovateuk:

👀 https://ktn-uk.org/perspectives/introducing-our-impact-management-framework/

#P4A_OYO #PlanForAction: One Year On
#ResponsibleInnovation
#BusinessInnovation #InnovationNation

The first stage of our Impact Framework makes sure we:

➡️ Embed impact into the design of our programmes
➡️ Develop S.M.A.R.T. objectives
➡️ Apply business cases and logic models across our new programmes

🙌 Stage 2 - the data collection stage, is planned to launch in 2023

An #ImpactManagement approach ensures Responsible Innovation.

We recently launched stage 1 of our Impact Management Framework, providing a consistent way of-
✔️Designing programmes
✔️Collecting data
✔️Monitoring & reporting impact
✔️Providing insight to inform decision-making

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#ResponsibleInnovation is the next theme in our progress deep dive since launching our #PlanForAction document in 2021.

Look out for our next post on this topic & view our 'Lite Version' of the Plan for Action via @KTNUK's site:

https://ktn-uk.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/FINAL_KTN-Plan_for_action_brochure_Online.pdf

#P4A_OYO #PlanForAction

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We are working closely with @BSI_UK to promote & monitor the use of responsible innovation standards, including through PAS 440, which we co-created with BSI and innovators.

#PlanForAction #ResponsibleInnovation #P4A_OYO

https://youtu.be/ctto_1PMY6w

Responsible innovation considers all the benefits:

👥 Societal
🌍 Environmental
💸 Economic

It's important to continue to support and incentivise responsible innovation across the whole innovation ecosystem.

#PlanForAction: One Year On
#ResponsibleInnovation #P4A_OYO

With great innovation comes great responsibility.

It's not enough to support cutting-edge innovation. We must also drive wider environmental & societal impacts, if we want to maximise long-term and sustainable economic growth.

#P4A_OYO #PlanForAction #ResponsibleInnovation

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9️⃣4️⃣ 18-30 year-olds are bringing fresh perspectives to innovation.

Funded through @innovateuk's #YoungInnovators programme, the 22/23 cohort is awarded £5k each, bespoke business mentoring & a living allowance:
http://ow.ly/sTf650MA5N2

@KTNUK #IdeasMeanBusiness #InnovateUKEDGE

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Tom Jenkins Deputy Challenge Director, #TransformingFoodProduction (#TFP) programme shares his insights on the huge potential of #PlantBasedProteins & insights into the future of this sector

The #TFP challenge is delivered by @innovateuk.

▶️http://ow.ly/niwO50MBO3I

@UKRI_News

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Getting to the crux of #NetZero | #InnovateBlog

Dr Stafford Lloyd @innovateuk & Lea Simpson @hellobrink explore:

➡️The climate tipping point
➡️Finding the crux
➡️A Climate Tech Crux Move
➡️Example of a crux move
➡️How we can innovate the innovators

https://www.ukri.org/blog/getting-to-the-crux-of-net-zero/

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Are you in #CreativeIndustries, looking to scale?

The @innovateuk #CreativeCatalyst 2023 is open to UK micro & small businesses. Apply for up to £50k, with a package of support | Deadline 15 Feb 2023

👀 More
http://ow.ly/qaAA50MxTki

Previous projects
📽️ http://ow.ly/6AWY50MxTmw

Joanna Power, Co-Founder at Lylo Products & @innovateuk #YoungInnovator Award winner, spoke with @ukmfg_tv about their innovation that reuses waste shower water to wash laundry.

📽️ http://ow.ly/uuL350MAbNx

Discover this year's cohort of Young Innovators
http://ow.ly/vhWx50MAbWi

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The @UKRI_News Horizon Europe information is now together in one location.

Check out the UK Research and Innovation hub for all the latest news, guidance and support for researchers and innovators during the delay to #HorizonEurope association.

👉http://ow.ly/hs9N50MlrAg

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This year's @FaradayInst conference takes place between 11 and 13 September at @unibirmingham.

⚡️Find out how you can get involved: http://ow.ly/3cNC104rLgw

#Faraday2023 #Batteries 🔋

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#ProjectSCREAM aims to provide a UK based supply of critical rare earth magnet materials by #recycling magnets from end of life scrap. ♻️

Funded by the Driving the Electric Revolution challenge, delivered by @innovateuk.

🌎Details: http://ow.ly/JvRo104rgn4

#CriticalMaterials

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'We have the resources to solve climate change, so what is stopping the scaling out of climate tech solutions?'

Read the #InnovateBlog, from Dr Stafford Lloyd, Innovation Lead for #CleanGrowth Strategy @innovateuk & Lea Simpson, Co-founder @hellobrink:

https://www.ukri.org/blog/getting-to-the-crux-of-net-zero/

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Did you catch our latest newsletter, jam-packed with all the latest #FundingOpportunities, #InnovationNews, #ImpactStories and #InnovateBlogs?

If not, we have a copy linked below:
http://ow.ly/Utg850MzZQk

Subscribe here, and never miss another edition:
http://ow.ly/U9Yz50MzZQj

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Tanya Beri was awarded @innovateuk's #YoungInnovators award to develop an app that helps London commuters make smart choices for reducing their exposure to #AirPollution by providing alternative routes.

👀 Read the @guardian story:
http://ow.ly/1MA450Mz36q

#IdeasMeanBusiness

A collective £1.25m has been awarded to 94 @innovateuk #YoungInnovators, aged 18-30.

With £5k, a living allowance & bespoke business coaching, award holders can boost their idea from concept to market-ready.

http://ow.ly/ip1e50MyKqo

@KTNUK #IdeasMeanBusiness #InnovateUKEDGE

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We are delighted to announce the 2022/23 winners of the @innovateuk #YoungInnovators Awards 🤩.

This year, there are 9️⃣4️⃣ young entrepreneurs who have been selected for notable potential in business innovation:

http://ow.ly/2prW50MyEhS

@KTNUK #IdeasMeanBusiness #InnovateUKEDGE

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UK-Germany Bilateral: Collaborative R&D funding competition: @innovateuk will work with @BMWK to invest up to £4m in #innovation projects supporting UK-German business-led collaboration.

👉http://ow.ly/HANQ50MyCLg

#InnovationNation #UK #Germany #Collaboration #Bilateral

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🚨 #CreativeCatalyst 2023 competition | 15 Feb Deadline

UK micro & small businesses in the #CreativeIndustries sector, can apply for up to £50,000 + support for #BusinessGrowth:
https://ktn-uk.org/programme/creative-catalyst

See highlights from projects previously funded:
📽️ https://youtu.be/6JLTORjnpqE

Range anxiety affects taxi drivers too! Scientists are testing @innovateuk-supported technology in #Nottingham, giving e-taxi drivers an opportunity to charge their cab as they move along the rank, without having to plug in.

Full story: http://ow.ly/8NE050MuSWI

@WiCET_trial #EVs

-Awarded >£3m in grants, helping 41 orgs carry out people & planet-centred projects through our #DesignFoundations comp
-Embedded a design-led innovation focus in the £20m @UKRI_News #HealthyAgeing #DesignedForAgeing competition, delivered by @innovateuk

#P4A_OYO #PlanForAction

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Engaged 815 active members from industry, research organisations and the public sector in the @KTNUK Design Innovation Network:

✔️ Connecting business & design communities,
✔️ Inspiring action &
✔️ Developing best practice

#P4A_OYO #PlanForAction #Design #DesignInnovation

Despite design being core to many innovation principles, it's still underused.
We're proud to have:
-Delivered our 1st Ignite Lab event series to spark #circular design-led innovation
-Provided coaching to 168 SMEs, between 2021-22, via #InnovateUKEDGE #DesignForGrowth programme.

#P4A_OYO #PlanForAction | One Year On | #Design
We are committed to harnessing design talent to add value to businesses.

We partnered with the @designcouncil to support & deliver the second #DesignForPlanet festival, including over 60 speakers in 2022.

https://youtu.be/wEkInJzvv84

Are you an industry-leading expert in your field?

We are recruiting members to the @UKRI_News Talent Panel College from the industrial sectors (non-academic) to support our panel assessment of applications.

Deadline extended to: 8th February 2023.

👉http://ow.ly/JmXO50Mxstj

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👀 Keep your eyes peeled, we are finalising a refresh of the Design in Innovation Strategy, to be published in 2023:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/910246/InnovateUK_DesignStrategy_Web-Enabled.pdf

#P4A_OYO

‘#Design’ is one of the Strong Foundations, as set out in our #PlanForAction. One year from the launch, we’re looking at the progress made on this theme.

Remind yourself of the strong foundations, which sit under 5 themes identified in the P4A:
https://www.ukri.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/IUK-18112021-Plan-For-Action-for-UK-Business-Innovation_FULL_WEB-FINAL-26.10.21-1.pdf#page=47

#P4A_OYO

Design helps businesses to:

☝️ Understand & reframe challenges
✌️ Discover opportunities
👌 Create innovative products, services, places & business models

The UK is home to world-class design talent, with potential to unlock significant economic, social & environmental value.

New ideas can only create value if they are adopted and used by people.

Innovators need to understand human behaviour, and make sure their ideas are desirable, useful and can be readily adopted.

#P4A_OYO #PlanForAction | One Year On | #Design

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Where are the first #OfgemSIF energy network innovation projects now?

Of the 4️⃣0️⃣ original Discovery projects
➡️ 18 went onto Alpha stage
➡️ With £500k of funding each
➡️ Progressing exploration over 6 months

'Show & tell' project webinars | 21-22 Feb
https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/sif-show-tell-webinars-round-1-alpha-projects-1529429

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Read 'Getting to the crux of net zero' to find out what's stopping the scaling out of climate tech solutions in this latest #InnovateBlog from Stafford Lloyd and Lea Simpson, Co-founder of @hellobrink

🧗‍♂️https://www.ukri.org/blog/getting-to-the-crux-of-net-zero/

#NetZero #ClimateChange #ClimateTech

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Read 'Getting to the crux of net zero' to find out what's stopping the scaling out of climate tech solutions in this latest #InnovateBlog from Stafford Lloyd and Lea Simpson, Co-founder of @hellobrink.

👉https://www.ukri.org/blog/getting-to-the-crux-of-net-zero/

#NetZero #ClimateChange #ClimateTech

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Sam Whetton, founder of @reikabags, and winner of the @innovateuk #YoungInnovators Award, talks with @ukmfg_tv about his innovative business idea

Hear from Sam & get inspired:
📽️ https://youtu.be/L-Rgy4f3iU0

@KTNUK #IdeasMeanBusiness #YoungEntrepreneurs #BusinessIdeas #Startups

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New funding | farmer-led R&D innovation projects - to improve productivity & #sustainability in #agriculture.

Part of the #FarmingInnovationProgramme, led by @DefraGovUK & delivered in partnership with @innovateuk-delivered #TransformingFoodProduction:
🚜 http://ow.ly/ul3J50MvhQl

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These in-road charging pads have the potential to remove EV range anxiety for taxi drivers 🚕🔌⚡

Funded through @innovateuk, the #WiCET (Wireless Charging for Electric Taxis) proof of concept is now underway in Nottingham.

@MailOnline story:
📰 http://ow.ly/XBYX50MuMyV