Priority theme: Advanced Materials
You can tap into the UK businesses that produce, process, fabricate and recycle materials, with an annual turnover of around £197bn, and become the next part of this lucrative supply chain.
Discover materials on _connect >Priority theme: Bioscience
Explore the significant opportunities Bioscience offers your business in the areas of characterisation and discovery tools, production and processing, and bioinformatics.
Discover bioscience on _connect >Priority theme: Built Environment
Bring your brain to the UK construction sector and help grow an economy that has an annual turnover of over £107bn and employs approximately two million people.
Discover built environment on _connect >Priority theme: Resource Efficiency
We all have a part to play in sustainability and your business is no exception. Use _connect to uncover how you can contribute and profit at the forefront of the sustainable economy.
Discover resource efficiency on _connect >Priority theme: Digital Services
Work with the companies on _connect creating new value from digital information, content and services. The internet economy in the UK is set to account for 10% of GDP by 2016.
Discover digital services on _connect >Priority theme: Electronics, Sensors & Photonics
8,000+ companies are involved in designing and manufacturing these products which underpin activities in healthcare, energy, transport, environmental sustainability, and construction.
Discover electronics, sensors & photonics on _connect >Priority theme: Energy
The 'trilemma' of energy security, affordability and sustainability continues to gain momentum - your innovation has a key part to play in this industry's period of transition
Discover energy on _connect >Priority theme: Food Supply
The UK's food supply chain is worth £84.7bn pa and employs more than 3.5 million people, with recognised centres of excellence across the agrifood supply chain - what part can you play?
Discover food supply on _connect >Priority theme: Healthcare
Meet the people who are meeting the challenge of creating more efficient and effective healthcare in the areas of prevention and management, detection and diagnosis, and treatments for disease.
Discover healthcare on _connect >Priority theme: High Value Manufacturing
Manufacturing contributes £6.7tr to the global economy and the UK is in the world's top ten - knowledge transfer plays a key part in that and needs your input to grow even further.
Discover manufacturing on _connect >Priority theme: ICT
More than 116,000 companies with revenues totalling more than £137bn make up the UK's ICT sector. _connect is home to many of the high flyers, and the door is open for you to join them...
Discover ICT on _connect >Priority theme: Space
Discover the potential for application and use of space technologies in your supply chain - opportunities exist in areas such as transport, agriculture and ICT.
Discover space on _connect >Priority theme: Transport
Transport needs your input to become more sustainable. With improvements needed in the areas or effectiveness and efficiency, the world needs innovative new supply chains.
Discover transport on _connect >"Open innovation is a paradigm that assumes that firms can and should use external ideas as well as internal ideas, and internal and external paths to market, as the firms look to advance their technology."
Harvard Business School
_connect is an initiative from the UK's Technology Strategy Board with the singular aim of making open innovation happen.
The networks on _connect are home to some of UK Industry's brightest minds, and they are waiting to collaborate on their next exciting projects.
Join _connect and see what open innovation can do for your business.
Featured networks
Sustainability & Resource Efficiency
Helping UK enterprises large & small to innovate and compete globally, based on sustainability & resource efficiency drivers and opportunities.
Space
Connecting the spectrum of activities across the Space Innovation and Growth Strategy with existing communities, to foster a space community spanning government, industry and academia
Materials
The Materials Community aims to bring together the materials supply chain to accelerate innovation, improve global competitiveness and sustainability.
Nanotechnology
The KTN Ltd's Nanotechnology Community
Future Cities
The Future Cities Group is part of the Urban Living group
Chemistry
Driving Innovation and Value for the chemistry-using industries
Biosciences
Serving the Agriculture, Food and Industrial Bioscience Sectors
Robotics and Autonomous Systems
Supporting the development of a new industrial RAS sector in the UK
Quantum Technologies
This Community is a place for everyone that is interested in exploring the commercial opportunities for Qunatum Technologies in the UK. Anyone, be that from industry, academia or interested individuals is encouraged to join and participate.
Energy Harvesting Special Interest Group
Energy Harvesting is a means of powering electronic devices by scavenging many low-grade ambient, or "wasted" energy sources such as environmental vibrations, human power, thermal gradients, or pressure gradients, and their conversion into useable electrical energy.
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Creating smart products from smart materials - workshop
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Innovate UK and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) will invest up to...
Nuclear Knowledge Management and Cyber Security Conference 2015
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Creating smart products from smart materials competition briefing
10:00 until 17:00
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Smart Competition Workshop - Northern Ireland
09:30 until 13:30
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Smart Competition Workshop - Glasgow
09:30 until 13:00
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Winning Business - The Future of Smart Cities & Urban Innovation
08:00 until 20:00
The Mayor of London in partnership with UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) London and in collaboration with Space Syntax are organising a one-day event which will enable companies to better understand...From Future Cities
IET Enterprise Workshop: RF Technology for Aerospace
12:00 until 16:30
The IET RF and Microwave Technology Network is proudly hosting the 4th Technical Enterprise Workshop on RF technology for Aerospace: Trends, Challenges and Opportunities. Radio frequency (RF)...From Space
World Water-Tech Investment Summit 2015 - 20% discount for KTN members
All Day
Join global water businesses, VC investors and technology innovators to accelerate the adoption of resource-efficient water technologies through knowledge-sharing, networking and new partnerships. ...
4th World Water-Tech Investment Summit
All Day
Knowledge Transfer Network is delighted to support the 4th World Water-Tech Investment Summit, taking place in London on March 9-11, in partnership with British Water. The summit will gather...From Materials
Circular Economy: Business Models Webinar
All Day
Innovate UK is to invest up to £800k in feasibility studies into the business case for retaining value in durable goods through reuse, remanufacture or leasing/maintenance. We are seeking projects...
Creating smart products from smart materials - Rotherham
All Day
The Knowledge Transfer Network is supporting Innovate UK’s smart materials competition by running a series of consortia building events on and around the time that the call opens. The events will...
Energy Storage Europe 2015
All Day
Do you want to increase turnover, build up networks, discover new business segments and gain competitive advantage through knowledge? Then visit the 4th Energy Storage Europe in Düsseldorf – the...From SuperSolar Hub
Energy Storage Europe 2015
All Day
Do you want to increase turnover, build up networks, discover new business segments and gain competitive advantage through knowledge? Then visit the 4th Energy Storage Europe in Düsseldorf – the...From SuperSolar Hub
Energy Storage Europe 2015
All Day
Do you want to increase turnover, build up networks, discover new business segments and gain competitive advantage through knowledge? Then visit the 4th Energy Storage Europe in Düsseldorf – the...
Graphene Connect – Materials and Production
All Day
We welcome you to the industrial workshop on materials and production, part of the workshop series Graphene Connect, in Bilbao, Spain. The ultimate outcome of the workshop is plans for actions for...