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Excellent analytical and writing skills, including the ability to present complex information concisely and accurately under tight deadlines. We work to inspire innovative businesses to create value though innovation. We work to involve talented organisations and people to create a vibrant and successful innovation ecosystem.

This support is available for all UK-based companies – from pre-startup to large multi-nationals. You may also be able to get help if you are an individual or an organisation. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, nationality, ethnic origin, religion or belief, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or family status, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, or any other legally protected status. We are committed to removing barriers for individuals with conditions, illnesses or disabilities and we will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable adjustments to participate in the job application or interview process, and in their future role. Find more information about current opportunities. Gain a deep understanding of future market opportunities Smart collaboration with external partners, though, goes beyond merely sourcing new ideas and insights; it can involve sharing costs and finding faster routes to market. Famously, the components of Apple’s first iPod were developed almost entirely outside the company; by efficiently managing these external partnerships, Apple was able to move from initial concept to marketable product in only nine months. NASA’s Ames Research Center teams up not just with international partners—launching joint satellites with nations as diverse as Lithuania, Saudi Arabia, and Sweden—but also with emerging companies, such as SpaceX.We have a strong respect and responsibility for the public money we deploy, and so impact, effectiveness and efficiency are at the heart of everything we do. pilot a Further Education Innovation fund to stimulate increased involvement of businesses in innovation activities focused on adoption and diffusion of innovation. Our actions will lead to more businesses driving an inclusive culture, create and promote role models that inspire and build a more diverse pipeline of talent for the future, and encourage more innovations to be developed with improvements in equality, diversity, and inclusion as a goal. Innovate UK and its partners across UKRI are working closely with BBB in the development of new UK regional funds, exploring how these funds and UKRI programmes can better connect innovative small businesses across the UK to the appropriate financial support.

This will support the creation of an outstanding research and innovation ecosystem in the UK that gives everyone the opportunity to contribute and to benefit, enriching lives locally, nationally, and internationally. Our purposeWe are living in a time of challenge; a time of constant change; but also, a time of very significant opportunity. pilot a shorter version of KTN as AKTs, focused on rapidly building understanding and capability to adopt new solutions in industry To secure the UK’s position as a global innovation hub we need to do more than support the people, ideas, and businesses that will drive innovation.

We will develop our products and services, working across our domains, Catapults, Knowledge Transfer and EDGE Networks to help business to do this. Innovate UK is uniquely placed to work across UKRI to help businesses exploit our science and research strengths and create a stronger culture of collaboration, research commercialisation, and demand-driven innovation. To manage selected projects that are cross cutting in nature and span much of Innovate UK KTN activity. Organizational changes may be necessary, not because structural silver bullets exist—we’ve looked hard for them and don’t think they do—but rather to promote collaboration, learning, and experimentation. Companies must help people to share ideas and knowledge freely, perhaps by locating teams working on different types of innovation in the same place, reviewing the structure of project teams to make sure they always have new blood, ensuring that lessons learned from success and failure are captured and assimilated, and recognizing innovation efforts even when they fall short of success.

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Join leading lights of industry, innovation and the HS2 wider community as we collaborate and rise to the challenges laid down by HS2 Ltd. Internal collaboration and experimentation can take years to establish, particularly in large, mature companies with strong cultures and ways of working that, in other respects, may have served them well. Some companies set up “innovation garages” where small groups can work on important projects unconstrained by the normal working environment while building new ways of working that can be scaled up and absorbed into the larger little chance of realizing their growth targets or staying within their risk parameters. Some spread themselves thinly across too many projects instead of focusing on those with the highest potential for success and resourcing them to win. significantly expand our support for commercialisation and collaboration through our established KTP programmes, running 5 rounds of competitions in 2022 to 2023, and 4 rounds of ICURe programmes, as well as piloting and developing new approaches including Scaling the Edge and Accelerated Knowledge Transfers (AKT)

The Knowledge Transfer Manager (KTM) – European Programme will support Innovate UK KTN’s programme of European engagement including Horizon Europe with the main emphasis to increase business engagement with appropriate European programmes and ultimately grow UK return on investment. systems so squarely emphasize new products? The reason, of course, is that most big companies are reluctant to risk tampering with their core business model until it’s visibly under threat. At that point, they can only hope it’s not too late. the Satellite Applications Catapult and UK companies investigating how satellite technology could create a positive socio-economic impact on mining operations in Chile To seek opportunities for Innovate UK KTN, with potential for new growth opportunities in global innovation. develop capability and capacity to support key government priorities, particularly opportunities for levelling up through innovation across the UK.The best ideas, even if brought to market, can only achieve impact if they are adopted by the market and more widely diffused into common use by customers. We will support businesses and entrepreneurs to draw on the knowledge and ideas in our world-class research base to build commercially successful business propositions. Growing innovative businesses work with government, industry bodies and providers, such as the Intellectual Property Office and National Physical Laboratory to ensure the skills value chain is an effective route to creating change To tap the potential that exists in UK businesses, we will ensure that our products and services are directed where they are most needed, at the best ideas which will gain the most from public finance, and where we can best leverage the private sector investment that will be required to make these ideas a commercial reality. To seek opportunities for Innovate UK KTN and work with colleagues to submit proposals with potential for additional income.