Open innovation challenges

Apply for the Zero Emissions Heavy Duty Vehicle innovation challenge and help Scottish businesses develop innovative solutions that can support the decarbonisation of Heavy Duty Vehicles. 

Over 3 million joint replacements were carried out in Europe throughout 2019. Could you develop a reproducible solution that transforms the surgical process towards personalised medicine?

Could you develop products and services to support healthy ageing? Apply for a share of £1 million to address one or more of the seven themes of the Healthy Ageing Challenge Framework.

Could you develop products and services to support healthy ageing? Apply for a share of £3 million for projects with costs from £50,000 to £150,000 for prototype development and evaluation.

Can you help the Ministry of Defence better understand the market capability and technologies available to improve power efficiency across its ships?

Could you develop solutions to alleviate some of the UK’s space challenges? The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) Space Programme is looking for innovative solutions to a series of challenges. 

The Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) would like to understand technology readiness levels in Net Zero emissions air systems.

Shifting to a Net Zero health system presents unique challenges involving every care setting. It will be vital to reduce emissions while maintaining a high standard of care. 

Do you have an innovative idea to help with pre-hospital diagnosis and rehabilitation of stroke? The NHS is looking for innovators to address pre-hospital diagnosis, rehabilitation interventions, and stroke survivor support. 

Could you develop innovative integrated care solutions for chronic heart failure management? It should integrate a range of features to bring different care providers, family carers and patients into a shared chronic heart failure care pathway.

The wave energy industry needs innovative support systems to assist the advancement of wave energy systems such as off-grid applications and mooring systems.

Can you develop a break-through solution for 100% renewable energy supply in buildings?

Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) is looking for innovative partners for R&D challenges. 

Can you use current technology or devise a new sensor to measure toxins in water systems? The successful design should reduce or eliminate the need for multiple laboratory water quality measurements. 

The UK’s space industry leader Airbus, has teamed with KBR, Leidos UK, Northrop Grumman and QinetiQ to bring new thinking to future space solutions and to launch the Open Innovation – Space initiative. Interested in working with this consortium?

Find challenges from global organisations seeking innovative solutions on the Leading Edge Only network.

Do you have outstanding innovative business ideas that you would like to propose or further develop with Philips? Challenge is ongoing.

P&G is actively seeking innovation and partnership solutions across a number of programme innovation areas. Challenge is ongoing.

This leading home, health and personal care company is looking to partner with startups and entrepreneurs to find hardware devices, formulations and packaging solutions for their products.