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 >

5 networks

65 new articles

43 events this month

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 >

5 networks

46 new articles

28 events this month

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 >

4 networks

35 new articles

17 events this month

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 >

5 networks

52 new articles

29 events this month

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 >

9 networks

58 new articles

28 events this month

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 >

14 networks

86 new articles

38 events this month

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 >

14 networks

76 new articles

40 events this month

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 >

7 networks

27 new articles

13 events this month

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 >

14 networks

74 new articles

39 events this month

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 >

9 networks

94 new articles

43 events this month

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 >

8 networks

64 new articles

28 events this month

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 >

4 networks

78 new articles

30 events this month

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 >

14 networks

61 new articles

33 events this month

Join networks, make connections; discover what effective knowledge transfer and open innovation can do for your business.

"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.

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

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.

New Events

Thu 09 Apr 2015

7th International Materials Education Symposium

All Day

The Materials Education Symposia are a unique opportunity to focus on materials teaching in...