Funding available to trial freight and logistics innovations
Up to £110k and access to expert business support is available to innovators with ideas to tackle the sector’s biggest challenges.
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Freight Innovation Fund Accelerator 2026 – Cohort 5
The Freight Innovation Fund Accelerator will support up to 12 Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) to develop a trial to test their solution in real-world environments to help solve pressing challenges within the freight sector.
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Industrialised Construction: Putting the pieces into place
Efforts to scale-up standardised methods of manufacture and assembly were discussed at the Connected Places Summit.
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Search begins for innovators to make maritime operations greener
The new Ideas Elevator – Maritime Decarbonisation programme is set to support innovators with very early-stage business ideas in the maritime sector.
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The Ideas Elevator – Maritime Decarbonisation
This pilot programme is for disruptive, very early-stage and exciting ideas and concepts that may alter the future landscape of clean maritime and have the potential to lead to radical change. It is open to SMEs and academics.
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Meet the innovator helping construction sites understand nature better
Serial entrepreneur Dimple Patel is leading a successful nature tech business previously supported by Connected Places Catapult and recognised by the Prince of Wales.
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Green Shipping Corridor Playbook
A Strategic Decarbonisation in Maritime Transport
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Innovation will be vital says rail transition lead
How railway reform will impact the landscape for innovators was debated at the Connected Places Summit.
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Regional cluster leads discuss what it takes to scale local economies
Ambitions to accelerate local growth were outlined at the Connected Places Summit.
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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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Chief Scientific Adviser celebrates five transport innovators
Exceptional start-up firms participating in the Transport Research and Innovation Grants programme were recognised at the Connected Places Summit.
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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.
