The UK’s innovation accelerator
for cities, transport & place leadership
What are connected places?
Places thrive on their ability to connect people – to resources, opportunities and to each other.
Throughout history, new technologies have enabled ever-increasing levels of physical, social and digital connectivity.
The application of today’s emerging technologies to the places we live, work and play will enable even greater levels of connectivity, driving new services, productivity gains and prosperity.
- Social
Enriched by advances in urban design, civic infrastructure and innovations in governance systems. - Physical
Improved through the application of new materials and engineering techniques which resulted in bridges, utilities infrastructures, railways and skyscrapers. - Digital
Exploded with successive waves of telecommunications technology, internet connected sensors, and increasingly powerful data processing.
What we stand for
- We are human centred, solution-led
- We advocate for standards which enable interoperability, replicability and scale
- We work in partnership with others across the UK and beyond to provide access to R&D assets and deliver impact
- We support local economies and organisations by being present within them to embed and transfer innovation capabilities
- We are globally connected in order to stimulate demand for UK innovations overseas and create opportunities for companies to expand globally
Our Partners
People’s Experience
Places prosper when they understand and design for the needs of people. Connected Places Catapult has access to a range of capabilities which help partners to understand changing needs and to design for experience.
Connected Intelligence
The infrastructure that enables digital connectivity within and between places as well as the technology and intelligence that enables data-rich insights, modelling and analysis.
Climate Action
We convene the markets to spark disruptive innovation and scale up Net Zero and resilience technologies, by developing the business and operational case for adoption and deployment.
