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Creating a direct path from innovation trial to solution adoption
Connected Places Catapult is exploring how evidence and learning from innovation trials can better support wider solution adoption.
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Live stations, airport terminals, construction sites and city streets where UK innovators test, prove and scale the technologies shaping tomorrow’s places.
Construction
Connected Places Catapult is exploring how evidence and learning from innovation trials can better support wider solution adoption.
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Rail, freight, aviation and the future of how people and goods move.
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Transport
We’re working with Network Rail and SMEs to test new technologies in live station environments. This helps SMEs grow, reduces risk for rail partners, and improves the passenger experience.
Aviation
The Connected Airport Living Labs is designed as a network of collaborative partnerships between Connected Places Catapult and UK airports, through which UK-based SMEs can test and demonstrate their late-stage innovative solution in a live airport environment.
Transport
The Freight Innovation Fund is a multi-faceted programme funded by the Department for Transport, focussed on accelerating the adoption of commercial ready solutions to address challenges in the UK’s freight sector.
Rail
HS2, working with Connected Places Catapult and in partnership with the Department for Transport, delivers the HS2 Accelerator Programme. It enables innovators to work with HS2 to develop technologies that solve real infrastructure challenges and improve efficiency
Digital construction, infrastructure delivery and the built environment.
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Construction
Connected Places Catapult is exploring how evidence and learning from innovation trials can better support wider solution adoption.
Construction
Join the i3P community to drive the future transformation of the infrastructure and construction industry.
Construction
The Digital Construction Exports Group (DCEG) was formed to promote the UK's excellence in digital construction to maximise the UK’s export opportunity, estimated to be worth £11.5bn , to the infrastructure sector by leveraging its digital leadership.
Construction
The Digital Construction International Programme (DCIP) advances global infrastructure through the adoption of digital construction techniques such as Building Information Modelling (BIM) aligned with international standards.
Place-based innovation, investment and regional economic growth.
All 5 projects
Regional Support
A national initiative unlocking private investment into local net zero projects through place-based collaboration, now transitioning into government delivery.
Regional Support
The Innovation Procurement Empowerment Centre helps public authorities unlock better, faster, greener and more cost-effective outcomes by using procurement as a tool to bring in innovation.
Regional Support
DIATOMIC (Digital InnovAtion TransfOrMatIve Change) is designed to accelerate place-based innovation in the West Midlands, harnessing the region’s existing international relationships through a series of targeted initiatives.
Construction
Clean Futures is supporting the West Midlands’ transport sector as it transitions from fossil fuels to clean technologies. The programme is also driving regional economic growth by accelerating the route to market for SMEs in the sector.
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