Unlocking procurement for net zero: Overcoming barriers in social housing retrofit
Retrofitting social housing is central to achieving the UK’s net zero ambitions, while improving living conditions and reducing fuel poverty.
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Transport Safety for Women and Girls
This report outlines a strategic, evidence-based approach to improving transport safety for women and girls in the UK.
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Scaling Coastal Shipping for UK Freight
Real-world supply chain opportunities suited to coastal shipping modal shift, delivering lower carbon logistics
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Early stage CAV opportunities within UK heavy road freight
How autonomous heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) could transform the UK freight sector
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Hydrogen e2e pathways
A strategic overview to support coordinated decision-making and investments for enabling zero emission flights in the UK.
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Innovation Procurement Competency Centres
Why public procurement fails both public outcomes and high-growth companies: and how to fix it.
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Rethinking Planning for Growth and Infrastructure Delivery
Digital, Integrated and Strategic Pathways for Spatial Development Strategies
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DIATOMIC International Bridges: Progress Overview and Future Horizons
Innovation Twins Birmingham-Ulsan Academic Partnership
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Green Shipping Corridor Playbook
A Strategic Decarbonisation in Maritime Transport
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A Regional roadmap for growing data-enabled public services
Devolution creates opportunity, but without shared data, aligned governance, and the right capability, progress stalls.
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Public procurement for a just, net zero transition
Public procurement in the United Kingdom (UK) is undergoing a period of transition and represents a powerful, yet under-exploited, tool for advancing a just and net zero transition at the local level.
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Place-based Public Procurement for a Low-Carbon Future: Regional Economic Impacts of Retrofitting
This research brief examines how place-based public procurement can accelerate housing retrofit delivery and strengthen regional economic outcomes, using the West Midlands as a case study.
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ROTI and NOTI: A Model to Accelerate Public Service Innovation
Local public services across the UK face persistent and shared challenges: fragmented capacity, duplicated effort, legacy technology, inconsistent information governance, cyber resilience, and under investment in service design. These issues slow improvement, increase costs, and lead to uneven service experiences for residents.
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Unlocking growth: The UK innovation opportunity in transport & construction
Seizing the UK’s £725 billion infrastructure opportunity
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Local approaches to public procurement under the Procurement Act 2023
Public procurement is a powerful lever for shaping local economies, yet it is still too often treated as a compliance exercise rather than a strategic tool.
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Roundtable: National Data Governance and Value Exchange
Explore the key insights from the National Data Governance and Value Exchange roundtable held at Millbank House on 26 January 2026.
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How innovation intermediaries support public procurement of innovation
Public procurement accounts for around 14 percent of UK GDP. This gives the public sector significant influence over how new ideas are developed and adopted, and how major societal challenges are addressed.
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Liverpool City Region: Maritime Alternative Fuel Hub
A regional approach to alternative fuel adoption would support the UK maritime sector to deliver its decarbonisation targets. This report outlines the Liverpool City Region’s potential to become a leading hub for clean maritime fuels.
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Automated Pavement Inspection and Monitoring trial: Connected Airport Living Lab
This project brought together a diverse group of collaborators, technologies, and methodologies to evaluate the impact that next-generation pavement monitoring solutions can create in a live airport environment.
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Integrated ticketing spotlight
The Integrated Ticketing Spotlight, commissioned by Connected Places Catapult, explores the future of ticketing in the UK and sets out a roadmap for delivering a modern, integrated and customer-focused transport system.
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Innovation Twins 2020-2025: impact and outcomes
This report offers insight into the outcomes and impact of the Innovation Twins since its launch in 2020 of the first full pilot programme between the UK and South Korea completed.
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Innovation Twins: The Playbook
Innovation Twins builds partnerships that are design to tackle specific strategic priorities and challenges – an evolution of traditional place twinning.
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Decarbonising Airside Operations
Aviation’s climate response is at a pivotal moment, with airside operations, particularly Ground Support Equipment (GSE), offering a tangible opportunity to drive progress toward net zero.
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CREDO for transport: Value propositions for holistic systems resilience
Transport is the foundational enabler and cornerstone of the UK’s critical national infrastructure, underpinning economic growth and societal wellbeing. This vital network, which supports the nation’s high-growth industries (often referred to as the ‘IS-8’), is facing an escalating threat from extreme weather and cascading failures.
