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Innovate UK: Infrastructure systems

Information about Innovate UK’s infrastructure systems programme for businesses that want to seek funding or find connections in this area.

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• From: Innovate UK
• Published: 7 April 2016
• Last updated: 18 December 2017 — See all updates

We need to build new energy, transport and urban systems to meet societal challenges such as a growing and ageing population, urbanisation and the need to reduce carbon emissions.

Meeting these challenges will give UK businesses major global business opportunities. But developing new infrastructure solutions can be risky. It can also be expensive to test and commercialise these solutions.

Innovate UK: Opportunities in infrastructure systems

See some of the opportunities in this sector in our delivery plan 2017 to 2018.

Search and apply for live funding competitions.

Innovate UK funds projects that develop or improve infrastructure systems. But the best solutions are often the result of working across industry sectors. That’s why we also help businesses find the connections they need to develop their innovative new products, services and processes.

Our priority areas in the field of infrastructure systems are:

• energy - systems and supply
• transport systems
• urban living
• smart and resilient infrastructure

Catapults - technology and innovation centres

We have built up a network of Catapults. These are technology and innovation centres that bridge the gap between universities and businesses.

Catapults help businesses undertake late-stage R&D and commercialise traditional academic research. The Catapults in this sector include the Transport Systems Catapult, the Energy Systems Catapult, the Future Cities Catapult and the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult.

European programmes

We also help UK organisations take part in European research, development and innovation programmes. These include Horizon 2020.

Our work in infrastructure systems

This section provides information on the sorts of projects that have been supported as part of Innovate UK’s infrastructure systems programme.

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Blogs

Read some of our blog posts on infrastructure systems to get inspiration and information.

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Published 7 April 2016
Last updated 18 December 2017 + show all updates

1. 18 December 2017

   Added link to delivery plan 2017 to 2018.

2. 7 December 2017

   Updated latest competitions.

3. 15 November 2017

   Updated latest competitions.

4. 27 October 2017

   Updated latest competitions.

5. 5 October 2017

   Updated competition, success stories and our work collections.

6. 15 September 2017

   Updated latest competitions.

7. 4 August 2017

   Updated competitions.

8. 28 June 2017

   Updated 'funding competitions'.

9. 31 May 2017

   Updated 'funding competitions'.

10. 2 May 2017

    Updated 'funding competitions'.

11. 20 April 2017

    Updated note on delivery plan publication.

12. 31 March 2017

    Updated 'funding competitions'.

13. 3 March 2017

    Updated 'funding competitions'.

14. 20 July 2016

    Added "funding competitions" section

15. 12 May 2016

    Linked directly to all Infrastructure Systems blogs

16. 7 April 2016

    First published.