Innovate UK - Sustainability and Funding Opportunities

1. Josie Gough
Regional Manager –South West
Innovate UK – Sustainability and Funding Opportunities

2. Activity Discovery & Research Innovation Commercialisation
TRL Description Basic
principles
observed and
reported
Concept or
application
formulated
Experimental
proof of
concept
Concept or
process
validated in
laboratory
System or
component
validated in
relevant
environment
System model
or
demonstrator
in relevant
environment
System
prototyping
demonstrator
in operational
environment
Actual System
completed
and qualified
test & demo
operational
environment
Actual system
mission
proven in
successful
mission
operationsSource: NASA Technology Readiness Level model
Academia Business
Funding & Support for Business Led Innovation

3. Challenge
Industrial Strategy
Challenge Fund
Responsive
Sector & Open
Programme
Business Growth Pilots: Innovation Loans & Investment Accelerator
Knowledge Transfer Partnerships
How do we Fund?
Managed Programmes: Procurement, Government, Late-stage (e.g ATI)

4. Datavis
The mission of Innovate UK is to
accelerate UK economic growth
through funding and connecting
business-led innovation

5. Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund
Medicines manufacturing technologies
Batteries for clean and flexible energy
storage
Robots for a safer world
Self-driving vehicles
Manufacturing and materials of the future
Satellites and space technology

6. The next wave of the Challenge Fund
Data to early diagnosis
& precision medicine
Healthy ageing
Next generation services
Audience of the future Quantum technology
Transforming
construction
Transforming food
production
Energy revolution

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£1.5 million grant funding available for a portfolio of 10-20 Smart
Local Energy System Concepts and Designs
Smart Local
Energy Systems
Concepts and
Designs
Reduce costs
•Investment and operating costs
•Lower consumer bills by 25%
•Infrastructure productivity
•System efficiency
Improve environment
•Carbon Budget 5
•Air Quality
•Built and natural
World-leading
consumer experience
Resilience
•Energy security
•Short and long timescales
•Cybersecurity
•Environmental changes
•Social changes
Test and scale up
•technologies
•business models
•Regulations, codes and
standards
Smart energy industry
growth
•Local & National
•Private investment
•International leadership
Key
outcomes
desired by
early 2020s
These will give an opportunity
to develop and assess radical
concepts and designs for smart
local energy systems holistically,
in terms of their local and
national economic,
environmental and societal
benefits.
The best of these will be invited
to participate in a subsequent
funding competition for detailed
development.

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Understanding of current and
future energy supply, demand and
storage options in a specific part
of the UK
Analysis of how energy supply and
demand for heat, power and
mobility could be optimised locally
within a national system.
Plans for integrating and testing
existing assets and infrastructure with
new technologies, information,
communication, decision-making,
control systems and user-centric
approaches.
Estimate economic, environmental and
societal costs, benefits, risks
• Energy system costs, efficiency,
flexibility, resilience, productivity,
emissions
• Consumer energy bills,
competitiveness, fuel poverty
• Local and national jobs, economic
impact.
Detailed business and financing plan
• how costs, risks and benefits will be
shared
• changes to codes, standards or
regulations
• evidence of stakeholder support
Evidence for scaling and repeating
the approach across the UK, driving
private finance investment and UK
smart industry growth.
Minimum
outputs required
from concept
and design
projects
by July 2019

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£40 m collaborative R&D grant funding for Smart Local
Energy System Demonstrators that will deliver
ambitious outcomes by 2022
£40m for 1-3 Smart
Local Energy
Systems
Demonstrators
(e.g. medium-sized
town)
Cheaper, cleaner,
more desirable
energy services for
users
Prosperous and
resilient
communities
Intelligent Scalable
Replicable
Investable
Heat, power and
mobility
Evidence to prove
new business
models, system
impacts
Supply chains,
growth, skills, and
processes
Follow on private
investment to
repeat across the
country

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A scalable, replicable, practical,
well-structure, and well-
managed world-leading
innovative project that can be
delivered in a specified large UK
location (e.g. a medium-sized
town) and evaluated by 2022
Optimise across diverse energy
supply, infrastructure and
users, intelligently linking
power, mobility, and heat to
reduce costs and emissions,
improve resilience and user
experience, and new services
Build high value local jobs
and enduring national
supply chains (including
designing, financing,
managing, installing,
operating)
Deliver evidence and
economic, environmental
and societal benefits to a
range of stakeholders for
the local area and the UK as
a whole by 2022
Trial and scale up the use of
innovative technologies,
infrastructures, business,
financing, or regulatory models,
codes, or standards, alongside
each other.
Provide evidence for scaling
and repeating the approach
across the UK to a range of
stakeholders, driving private
finance investment and
sustainable industry growth.
Leverage existing resources
(financial, assets, data,
consumers, consents, etc.),
align with local and national
strategies, and adopt best
practices to reduce delivery
risks
Create, protect, manage, an
capture and exploit value
from data and intellectual
property.
We are looking to fund 1-3 demonstrators to
deliver the following outputs by 2022

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For example including…
• energy network companies
• energy suppliers, big and small
• technology developers, including smart appliance manufacturers,
• smart system developers
• digital systems developers, including data analytics and AI
• design and consumer interface specialists
• engineering service and integration businesses
• exceptional leaders and communicators who can inform and inspire consumers
and private investors
We welcome innovative and ambitious partnerships

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How to get involved
• Look out for further announcements on the Prospering from the
Energy Revolution Challenge from UK Research and Innovation
https://tinyurl.com/energysystemdemos
https://tinyurl.com/energysystemdesigns

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14. ISCF – Wave 3 developing challenge proposal
“Growing Cities Sustainably”
• This proposal is at industry consultation phase and being socialised for comment
during June 2018.
The issue: Cities are complex systems largely run as a collection of functional silos.
Outcomes: To seek the development of functional, sustainable and cohesive
communities, agile enough to embrace the opportunities of new technologies but
which don’t increase the pressure on local environment, infrastructure and services.
Activities
• Dynamic and accessible visualisations of scenarios and options
• Integrate city data at scale programmes
• Engagement with enabling technology capability including AI
• Enhance the capabilities of city authorities by adding innovation capacity and
supporting leadership development

15. ISCF – Wave 3 developing challenge proposal
“Growing Cities Sustainably”
Outputs
1) Establish a Core Information Management Hub- For Data Analytics and Management/
visualisation
- Standard adoption and development
2) 3-5 City Demonstrators- Demonstrate how new products and services get developed
inspired by the data insight
- demonstrate the effectiveness of new methods of procurement and solving Cities’ biggest
challenges
- New approaches to community master planning
3) Guidance and mechanisms to promote and support effective city leadership around data
management and use
4) Collaborative R&D Programme which encourages innovations in planning utilising data
analytics and AI capabilities.

16. New
innovation
finance

17. Innovation loans
For late stage R&D
Between £100k and £1m
2 year pilot period
Interest fixed
Micro, small or medium sized businesses
Low cost, patient, flexible

18. The Refreshed Open Competition
Your proposal must:
• Demonstrate a clearly cutting-edge, game-
changing or disruptive innovative concept or
idea designed for commercialisation (ideally
as soon as possible following completion)
• Aim to lead to new products, processes or
services (or novel use of existing ones) that are
deemed to be significantly ahead of anything
similar in the field
• Be in line with the overview, terms and
conditions outlined in the competition brief
available on the .gov.uk website
• Project duration between 6-18 months and
total project costs between £25K-£500K; these
can be either a single or collaborative
application
• Project duration between 19-36 months and
total project costs between £25K-£2M; these
must be collaborative

19. Knowledge Transfer
Partnerships

20. How do we Connect?
Thematic Focus
Knowledge Transfer Advisors
Local Presence
Global Connections

21. EEN – part of Innovate UK’s Connect Strategy
Finding Partners for international and domestic collaboration in R&D and Tech Transfer
Supporting applicants to, and beneficiaries of, Innovate UK and EU funding schemes
Working with business for the commercialisation of their technologies

22. innovate2succeed – intensive innovation coaching for business
Up to 7 days intensive coaching support – expert modules include:
• Business and Innovation strategy
• Bid writing
• Commercialisation strategies
• Intellectual Property management
• Lean process development
• Access to Finance and Funding

23. We can’t stop
thinking about
the future
Empowering innovative
UK businesses today to
lead the global growth
industries of tomorrow.