Who’s involved

BAE Systems provides some of the world’s most advanced, technology-led defence, aerospace and security solutions. It employs a skilled workforce of more than 93,000 people in around 40 countries.

Working with customers and local partners, BAE Systems develops, engineers, manufactures, and supports products and systems to deliver military capability, protect national security, and keep critical information and infrastructure secure.

Creagh Concrete is one of the UK’s largest producers of concrete products for a diverse range of market sectors. Creagh is leading the market with innovation in concrete, providing new solutions across the construction industry.

Creagh is changing the way people think about concrete, bringing new levels of efficiency and performance to their products, with Spantherm thermally efficient flooring and Rapidres, an offsite fastrack build system.

Driven by their principles and fuelled by passion, Creagh is committed to quality and excellence. Maintaining the highest standards in everything they do is simply the Creagh way.

HS2 Ltd is the company responsible for developing the HS2 Project, Great Britain’s new high-speed railway. HS2 Ltd is an executive non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Department for Transport.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Once operational, HS2’s British-built bullet trains will provide zero carbon journeys between the UK’s two largest cities, Birmingham and London, with services continuing on to Manchester, the North West and Scotland using the conventional railway network, cutting journey times.

Digital Catapult is the UK authority on advanced digital technology. Through collaboration and innovation, we accelerate industry adoption to drive growth and opportunity across the economy.

We bring together an expert and enterprising community of researchers, startups, scaleups and industry leaders to discover new ways to solve the big challenges limiting the UK’s future potential. Through our specialist programmes and experimental facilities, we make sure that innovation thrives and the right solutions make it to the real world.

Our goal is to accelerate new possibilities in everything we do and for every business we partner with the journey – breaking down barriers, de-risking innovation, opening up markets and responsibly shaping the products, services and experiences of the future.

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is the largest public funder of research and innovation in the UK, with a budget of over £8bn. It is composed of seven disciplinary research councils, Innovate UK and Research England. It operates across the whole country and work with our many partners in higher education, research organisations businesses, government and charities.

The UKRI vision is for an outstanding research and innovation system in the UK that gives everyone the opportunity to contribute and to benefit, enriching lives locally, nationally and internationally. It’s mission is to convene, catalyse and invest in close collaboration with others to build a thriving, inclusive research and innovation system that connects discovery to prosperity and public good.

UKRI continues to support the research and innovation community to navigate the transitions associated with the exit of the UK from the EU.

The Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund aims to bring together the UK’s world leading research with business to meet the major industrial and societal challenges of our time. The fund was created to provide funding and support to UK businesses and researchers, part of the government’s £4.7 billion increase in research and development over the next 4 years. It was designed to ensure that research and innovation takes centre stage in the Government’s modern Industrial Strategy. It is run by UK Research and Innovation.

Made Smarter is a national movement to drive growth amongst UK makers and advance the UK economy. Backed by world-renowned businesses and the UK government, it will improve the development and adoption of emerging technologies. Making a real, everyday difference to people from the boardroom to the factory floor.

The Made Smarter Review outlines there is £455 billion value-add into the UK economy by adopting industrial digital technologies, increasing manufacturing sector growth between 1.5-3% per annum, with a 25% improvement in productivity and a 4.5% reduction in greenhouse gases.

Agave Networks helps metal recyclers around the world to trade reclaimed metals securely and easily using ML & CV for product and shipment verification.

The company offers a people-focused PLM solution designed to streamline product development processes. By integrating Digital Product Passport (DPP) capabilities, they help businesses selling or manufacturing in the EU meet regulatory requirements without needing two separate systems or additional manpower. This all-in-one platform improves efficiency and compliance across product lifecycles.

Donaa is a B2B software company that uses materials engineering-based algorithms and AI to detect 3D printing defects in real-time to save costs and production timelines for manufacturers.

Heuris Energy is accelerating the transition to green, sustainable energy sources by helping businesses become less grid dependent. Heuris procures, finances and manages batteries and other flexibility assets to drive down electricity costs, up resilience and decarbonize your production site.

Remade Group’s responsible procurement programme helps UK companies reduce their costs and carbon footprint without compromising quality. Our goal is to promote the uptake of remanufactured and extensively refurbished products that are up to 30% less expensive that the most heavily discounted new offers but come with warranty equivalent to that of a new product. This approach can result in up to 80% reductions in procurement related carbon emissions

Riskoa Ltd is a digital software provider specialising in sustainability. Our AI-powered tool, Emvide, delivers lifecycle assessments (LCA) to accelerate understanding of product impact and product carbon footprint (PCF), helping businesses reduce their environmental footprint.

SFS functions in an industry where we supply level monitoring solutions to any business that delivers to bulk storage tanks. We are looking at developing a product to capture visibility of storage tanks where the distributor of the liquid delivered to the tanks have no visibility due to no network coverage to send data. The new product will send data via connectivity to the end consumers broadband connection.

Our product transitions data between CAD (Design), CAE (Engineering), and CAM (Manufacturing). The Investment Readiness Programme will help us refine our approach and scale our impact, enabling faster design cycles in industries like 3D printing. We look forward to leveraging this opportunity to drive technological advancements and foster growth.