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
Future Cities
The Future Cities Group is part of the Urban Living group
HealthTech and Medicines
Building a Healthy Nation through Business Innovation
Biosciences
Serving the Agriculture, Food and Industrial Bioscience Sectors
Materials
The Materials Community aims to bring together the materials supply chain to accelerate innovation, improve global competitiveness and sustainability.
Robotics and Autonomous Systems
Supporting the development of a new industrial RAS sector in the UK
Quantum Technologies
Building a £Billion business in Quantum Technology
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
ICT
Creating a competitive advantage for the UK by facilitating knowledge exchange on Information and Communications Technologies and accelerating innovation.
Electronics, Sensors, Photonics
To be a beacon for successful wealth creation from knowledge.
Defence and Security
Seeking both to improve the flow of knowledge between the UK’s civil and defence and security communities and to identify new opportunities for technology exploitation
New Events
EU Horizon 2020 Funding opportunities for Health
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The NHS Confederation, the European Commission, Innovate UK, the Medical Research Council (MRC)...
Bioinformatic Approaches in Agri-Food
10:00 until 16:00
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Synthetic Biology: does industry get it?
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Animal Production, the Key in a European Sustainable Circular Bioeconomy
09:00 until 17:00
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Future of Farming: Big data and precision agriculture
09:00 until 17:00
The British Embassy and the French think tank saf agr’iDées are organising this event in...From Biosciences
Upcoming Events
15th International Symposium on Biopolymers
All Day
The traditional spotlight of ISBP has been on biopolymers like polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA), cellulose and rubber. ISBP2016 will also extend the focus to other bio-based polymers like PLA, BioPET...
15th International Symposium on Biopolymers
All Day
The traditional spotlight of ISBP has been on biopolymers like polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA), cellulose and rubber. ISBP2016 will also extend the focus to other bio-based polymers like PLA, BioPET...
2016 SPIE Remote Sensing symposium
All Day
The 2016 symposium in Edinburgh, United Kingdom, will be the 23rd in this series and follows last year’s successful symposium in Toulouse, France. This year there will be eleven conferences...
8th Global Leakage Summit 2016
All Day
The Changing Face Of Leakage Management Leakage Management has evolved to being just one of many operations in holistic network management, but as a specific discipline, the technologies available...
EOSAM 2016 - European Optical Society Bi-Annual Meeting 2016
All Day
EOSAM 2016 - European Optical Society Bi-Annual Meeting 2016 26 - 30 September 2016 Adlershof con. vent. Exhibition Centre Berlin, Germany CALL FOR PAPERS Submit Abstracts by 30 April 2016 - please...From SuperSolar Hub
Future Investigators of Regenerative Medicine (FIRM) symposium
All Day
FIRM (Future Investigators of Regenerative Medicine) is an international early career symposium created to unite the academic institutions in the field of Regenerative Medicine. The FIRM 2016...
SPIE Security + Defence 2016
All Day
This unique symposium will offer many opportunities to network with colleagues from a variety of disciplines in academia, industry, and government from all over the world, whilst still maintaining...From Forensic Science
SPIE Security + Defence 2016
All Day
This unique symposium will offer many opportunities to network with colleagues from a variety of disciplines in academia, industry, and government from all over the world, whilst still maintaining...From Defence and Security
SPIE Security + Defence 2016 in Edinburgh.
All Day
Plan to participate at SPIE Security + Defence 2016—Interact with fellow engineers, scientists, programme managers and policy makers on the latest developments in sensing, data and signal analysis,...From Photonics Group
Virtual Physiological Human conference 2016
All Day
The Virtual Physiological Human conference series offers a platform to present research related to the Virtual Physiological Human and more broadly into Computational Systems Biomedicine, as well...