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Smart procurement is key to support Government growth plans
Using new procurement rules to implement the ambitious investment agenda set out in the King's Speech will boost the kind of innovation and growth the UK needs.
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Meet the Academic championing more material reuse
Researcher Luis Torres-Retamal is exploring how procurement can be used as a lever for public organisations to adopt sustainable principles in construction and transport, and how a shift in company behaviours may help develop the circular economy.
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National Highways: the need for innovation has never been greater
Tier ones and innovators gather to focus on National Highways’ innovation priorities across decarbonisation and customers’ experience.
A busy train station with people walking through ticket barriers and along the platform next to a stationary train under the large, arched roof of Bristol Temple Meads.
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Search begins for innovators to test tech at Bristol Temple Meads
Up to £49k, expert business support and the chance to conduct live trials is on offer to companies with fresh ideas to improve railway stations.
People at a train station looking at an electronic information board displaying train schedules at Bristol Temple Meads, while a few others head towards the ticket barriers.
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Station Innovation Zone – Innovation Funding Programme – Year Three
Connected Places Catapult, in collaboration with Network Rail and funded by Innovate UK, is excited to announce the third year of the Station Innovation Zone (SIZ) Competition, supporting SMEs to test new ways of improving various aspects of the passenger experience.
Opportunity
HMGCC Challenge: Assurance of printed circuit boards using machine vision
When national security organisations use electronic equipment in sensitive environments, they must be sure every element has been properly assured. In its latest challenge, HMGCC Co-Creation wants organisations to get involved in a five-month project, developing ways to robustly assure printed circuit boards (PCBs).
Opportunity
HMGCC Challenge: Underground Tunnelling Techniques
Underground tunnelling presents an array of opportunities and challenges, so the MoD would like to know how technologies and capabilities in this area could be better harnessed for future operations.
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Meet the Innovator interrogating words to help improve transport services
Ruth Erdal started her career writing punchy copy for books and brochures, and now promotes technology that identifies key phrases in spoken and written text to help transport clients better understand how their customers are feeling.
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The future of innovation procurement
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Future Aviation Security Solutions Industrial PHD Partnerships (FASS IPP)
In this programme academia and industry have been brought together to develop innovative ideas capable of transforming the future of aviation security. As well as to promote seamless travel to better the passenger experience.
Blog
Zero Emission HGV infrastructure: how can we ensure safe deployment?
Ensuring safe electric charging and hydrogen refuelling could represent barriers to the transition of road freight towards net zero. Essential competencies are needed to develop best practices.
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Meet the Academic focusing on the accessibility of our streets
Arun Ulahannan of Coventry University is leading a project to improve the design of streets to accommodate future mobility, with support from Connected Places Catapult.