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Are you looking for new business opportunities for your technology?

Do you have the radical technology needed by global players in rapidly growing sectors?

Find out what large innovation challenges these key players are facing and put forward disruptive solutions that your new and cutting edge technologies could deliver.

KTN-iX™ provides you with the opportunity to become directly linked to, or collaborate with, key industry stakeholders who are actively seeking the most innovative solutions to help them achieve their full potential.

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Segregation of personnel on work boats during transit: Covid-19 Innovation Challenge

The iX competition is supporting the Workboat Association and G+ members - offshore wind farm owners (the Challenger) to identify innovative solutions to solve their Covid-19 challenge. Currently workboats are severely limited in carrying capacity due to Covid-19 distancing restrictions. The Challenger is looking for solutions to increase the carrying capacity of workboats. The winning business(es) in this competition will be given a commercial opportunity to deliver their solution, and receive support from the KTN, ORE Catapult and the wider InnovateUK network.

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Digitally track and manage large components at quayside storage areas

The iX competition, delivered by the Knowledge Transfer Network in partnership with ORE Catapult, is supporting Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) to identify solutions to innovation challenges. This current challenge relates to the Logistics Management of large wind turbine component movements around port facilities. We are looking for digital and hardware logistics solutions to improve the tracking, management and optimisation of these activities.

26 days left

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Automatic document processing

The Innovation Exchange programme is working alongside a large UK company. This business is looking to engage innovators and innovative companies that can help them solve a significant challenge they are trying to overcome in relation to a critical administration activity. They will engage with the suppliers of innovation to support developments if they need to be made to suit the application better. The organisation’s facilities are situated throughout the UK and activities take place across the world. As part of their operations the business needs to review a large number of documents to check compliance to various legal or policy requirements.

34 days left

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Topic detection on the phone

The Innovation Exchange programme is working alongside a large UK company. This business is looking to engage innovators and innovative companies that can help them solve a significant challenge they are trying to overcome in relation to a key security issue. They will engage with the suppliers of innovation to support developments if they need to be made to suit the application better. The organisation’s facilities are situated throughout the UK and activities take place across the world. As part of its operations the business conducts a large number of meetings and one-to-one conversations using Voice Over Internet Protocol systems. To minimise the risk of security breaches the Challenge Owner is looking for an automated system to flag potentially sensitive topics of conversation.

34 days left

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Voice based query

The Innovation Exchange programme is working alongside a large UK company. This business is looking to engage innovators and innovative companies that can help them solve a significant challenge they are trying to overcome in relation to a key security issue. They will engage with the suppliers of innovation to support developments if they need to be made to suit the application better. The organisation’s facilities are situated throughout the UK and activities take place across the world. As part of its operations the business requires maintenance and repair of complex machinery to be undertaken in remote locations. These operations can be hampered by the need to carry bulky documentation or laptop computers and the Challenge Owner wishes to investigate solutions that permit hands-free access to technical information.

34 days left

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Immutable audit trail of a component or device

The Innovation Exchange programme is working alongside a large UK company. This business is looking to engage innovators and innovative companies that can help them solve a significant challenge they are trying to overcome in relation to a key security and quality issue. They will engage with the suppliers of innovation to support development (if required) to better suit the application. The organisation’s facilities are situated throughout the UK and activities take place across the world. As part of its operations the challenge owner needs to be able to demonstrate the provenance of all inputs to its business using a common approach.

34 days left

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Component recognition and tracking

The Innovation Exchange programme is working alongside a large UK company. This business is looking to engage innovators and innovative companies that can help them solve a significant challenge they are trying to overcome in relation to a key productivity issue. The Challenge Owner will engage with the suppliers of innovation to support development, if necessary, to better suit the application. The organisation’s facilities are situated throughout the UK and activities take place across the world. As part of their operations the business needs to keep track of assets and equipment that are regularly transferred between locations.

34 days left

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