Welcome to the Ideas Marketplace
The Ideas Marketplace is a platform offering opportunities for defence and security organisations to network with government, innovators, industry and academia.
The Ideas Marketplace is an online collaboration platform offering opportunities for innovative defence and security organisations to network and collaborate with government stakeholders, end users, innovators, industry and academia. The platform can be used to forge new relationships and foster collaboration between dynamic organisations of all shapes and sizes.
The ultimate goal of the Ideas Marketplace is to support the creation of successful innovations to overcome defence and security challenges in the UK.
Welcome to the Ideas Marketplace
The Ideas Marketplace community includes the following organisations:
- Army Innovation Hub: The Army Research, Innovation and Experimentation Laboratory (ARIEL)
- The Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA)
- DE&S Future Capabilities Group (FCG)
- Regional Defence and Security Clusters
- jHub & jHub digital
- Royal Navy Innovation Hub: NavyX, NELSON, MarWorks, DARE and OCTO.
- Royal Air Force Innovation Hub: RAFX
- UK Space Command
The Ideas Marketplace can help users:
- seek out partnerships and collaborations with organisations that can help develop their innovation
- identify new funding opportunities
- receive help to understand the market for an idea and help to build the business behind it
- engage with industry leaders and learn more about the defence and security landscape
The platform has been designed to enable collaboration with other innovators across the UK and to help organisations gain expertise and specialist support to develop their technologies to make them successful.
As innovators, we want to help you keep informed of the opportunities available to you that will help accelerate your idea. Here, you will be able to:
- share your ideas to foster collaborative relationships and partnerships with like-minded users
- join and create collaboration groups
- get updates on funding opportunities from across the defence and security community
- learn about the latest defence and security industry news and see how you can get involved
- gain access to networking and collaboration events
- find expert knowledge to make your innovation a success
- get help to understand the market for your idea and help to build the business behind it
Troy Bell, Ideas Marketplace Manager said:
“I am very excited to see what we can achieve with the Ideas Marketplace. My vision for the platform is to create a bustling, collaborative, connected, engaged and informed community where innovation can thrive for the benefit of national security. The Ideas Marketplace has a great opportunity to help create a more unified defence and security innovation ecosystem.
Over the coming months we will be adding additional functionality to the Ideas Marketplace, specifically focusing on the user journey through the system and improvements to make it even easier to share, collaborate and connect so keep an eye out for updates.”
Register for the Ideas Marketplace here