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.
At Connected Places Catapult, we provide impartial ‘innovation as a service’ for public bodies, businesses, and infrastructure providers to catalyse step-change improvements in the way people live, work and travel.
We connect businesses and public sector leaders to cutting-edge research to spark innovation and grow new markets. We run technology demonstrators and SME accelerators to scale new solutions that drive growth, spread prosperity, and eliminate carbon.
Our multi-disciplinary Connected Places Catapult team works across all aspects of place and understands the complex relationships between them.
We recognise that places are made up of a set of closely related domains, each with their own rules, regulators, and market opportunities.
Decisions or innovations in one of these domains invariably have impact on other. A mobility innovation like electric vehicles, for instance, impacts the public space and critical infrastructure domains. The need to integrate charging facilities with the existing ones on the street assets and energy grids, both of which are managed by different parties, makes efforts to introduce innovation complex.
At Connected Places Catapult, we operate across all six domains of place to develop opportunities for innovation within each and build bridges between them.
Our team has diverse and extensive experience spanning cities and the built environment, mobility and transport systems, innovation and enterprise support.