Catapult centres

What is a Catapult centre?

• Established following a review by Hermann Hauser 2010 (link to report)

• Business-focused technology and innovation centre that makes world-leading technical capability available to businesses to solve their technical challenges

• Provides:

• Access to world-leading technology & expertise

• Reach into the knowledge base for world-class science

• Capability to undertake collaborative R&D projects with business

• Capability to undertake contract research for business

• Create a critical mass of activity

• Skills development at all levels

Innovate UK family

Fund

Collaborate Connect

Technology Readiness Levels

Catapults

Helping business to

identify, adopt and exploit

innovative technologies Core ProjectsKey challenges and barriers

A unique technical capability

Industry & research advisory groups

Demonstration projects

Disseminate to industry

CR&D

Innovation in collaborations

Bring together customers, SMEs & blue-chip companies

Technical & management resource

Partners in Projects (IUK & EU)

Expertise at unlocking funding

Industry R&D

Access to unique facilities & expertise

Develop & demonstrate at scale

Reduce risk of implementation

Direct contracts for projects

Easy access for SMEs

Catapult timeline

Current Catapults Date operational

High Value Manufacturing October 2011

Cell and Gene Therapy October 2012

Satellite Applications December 2012

Offshore Renewable Energy March 2013

Digital June 2013

Future Cities June 2013

Transport Systems August 2013

Energy Systems April 2015

Precision Medicine April 2015

Medicines Discovery April 2016

Compound Semiconductors 2017

> £1bnPrivate & public

sector investment

High Value Manufacturing Catapult

Catalyst for the future growth and success of

UK Manufacturing

Its 7 Centres offer access to:

World class open-sourced manufacturing technology at

• industrial scale

The UK’s best relevant university research

1400+ specialist engineers, technicians & scientists

Opportunity to collaborate and co-innovate

Full range of manufacturing capabilities, from raw

materials to product development, optimisation and

automation

Third year of full operation, and exceeding

performance targets

Generating approx. 40% of its income

from industry contracts

Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult

• The UK’s flagship technology testing,

demonstration and research centre for offshore

wind, wave and tidal energy

• Delivering prioritised research, in collaboration

with industry and academia, underpinned by deep

technical knowledge and world-class test and

demonstration facilities

• Enhancing understanding from data, enabling

innovation and reducing risk and cost

Future Cities Catapult

Urban ingenuity. Made real. Scaled globally. Future Cities Catapult accelerates urban ideas to market, to grow the economy to make cities better.

Cutting-Edge FacilitiesUrban Innovation Centre Located in London, a destination for business, academia, city leaders to develop city solutions.Cities Lab provides data analysis, modeling and visualisation capabilities to elucidate city problems.On-the-ground demonstrators in collaborating cities for testing und new products and services in-situ.

Project ThemesHealthy Cities (Local initiatives, air quality solutions, well-being of citizens etc)Urban Mobility (End to end journey of sustainable solutions)Integrated Urban Planning

Transport Systems Catapult

• Modal integration & more effective use of

combined capability

• System performance including smart

infrastructure asset management

• New business models to unlock new value

chains

• Intelligent Mobility modelling platform

• Imovation Centre in Milton Keynes

• Co-funded with Dept for Transport

Drive UK global leadership in intelligent mobility promoting sustained

economic growth and wellbeing through integrated, efficient and

sustainable transport systems

Areas of Interest - Programmes

• Blue Economy;

• Government Services;

• Transport Systems;

• Sustainable Living.

About us

• A gate-way to organisations involved in satellite

technology (universities, start-ups, SMEs and large

organisations);

• Specialise in Earth observation (EO), seamless

telecommunications, positioning, navigation and timing

(PNT) and data analytics.

We offer:

• Collaboration on projects;

• Facilities and expertise;

• Business support services;

• Networking opportunities & connections.

Looking for: Innovative organisation willing to develop applications involving satellite technology;

• Machine learning & computer vision for Earth Observation;

• Video from space;

• IoT;

• In-Orbit Demonstration.

Satellite Applications Catapult

Satellite Applications Catapult

In-Orbit Demonstration (IOD) Programme

• 4 missions over

2 years (flexible

launch dates)

• 1 year delivery to

launch

Contact us at:

iod@sa.catapult.org.uk

Would you like to offer a new service or new data from satellites?

IOD offers a fast, low-cost space test-bed for your service

• If you have a service idea and a technology: we can quickly help you build a mission.

• If you have a service without a technology: we can help find a partner and develop a

mission.

• If you have a technology, but you need to understand who might exploit it: we can help

connect you with potential customers and support you to define a mission.

Partner Define & Build Launch Operate

DIGITAL CATAPULTOVERVIEW

Helping UK businesses grow through the use of

digital technologies

DIGITAL CATAPULT STRATEGY

• We focus on key technology layers – which

can make a commercial difference

• We work at the intersections of enabling

technologies and emerging markets

• We work with startups, scaleups, academics

and corporates

KEY ENABLING TECHNOLOGY

LAYERS

• Data-driven – personal data, privacy, trust, cyber-security and

blockchain

• Connected – Internet of Things, 5G, low-powered wide

area networks

• Intelligent – machine learning and artificial intelligence

• Immersive – virtual reality, augmented reality, haptics, new

forms of human machine interface

SEGMENTS OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY

• Creative industries (particularly content markets)

• Digital manufacturing (supply chain and product life cycle)

• Health, wellbeing, fitness (independent living and wellness)

• Cross innovation (transferring expertise from sector to

sector)

• Open Calls

• Pit Stops

• Live events

• UK & EU Research Projects

• Convening communities

• Technology feasibility trials

• Collaborative R&D projects

• Policy Development

• Core Projects

• Hackathons

• Innovation Workshops

• Researcher in Residence

• Boost Programme

• Sponsors and Supporters

• Showcase in our Centre

Different ways we get involved