Given that a substantial proportion of Belfast City Council’s public services are funded through these local taxes, it was clear that the city needed an up-to-date register of businesses. “Over the past decade, Belfast’s economy has become increasingly dynamic, with lots of new businesses either setting up or moving premises… Read More
The UK is at an important inflection point in its ambition to create world-class hubs of innovation – places fuelled by the technologies, the trust and the teamwork to become genuine destinations of discovery and drivers of new skills, good jobs and broad-based opportunity. Covid-19, Brexit, Net Zero and Levelling… Read More
Connected Places Catapult collaborated with the Greater London Authority (GLA) to support a cohort of SMEs that were selected to be part of Delivery Phase 1 of the Mayor’s Resilience Fund programme. The Fund is a partnership between the GLA and Nesta, funded by the London Economic Action Partnership, designed… Read More
A pioneering partnership between Connected Places Catapult and leading researchers in Birmingham and Manchester will boost regional innovation and jobs. The team will work with local authorities to engage inventive companies in developing and deploying innovative new services, with the shared goal: to invest public procurement funds in better, greener solutions. The project partners - University of Birmingham, the University of Manchester and Connected Places Catapult – have named their venture The Consortium for Research in Innovative… Read More
On 14th April, the Connected Places Catapult hosted a breakfast event on innovating public procurement to share best practices between SMEs and local authorities in procuring new solutions that can be deployed at city scales. We invited 3 of our SMEs from our network to share examples of successful collaboration… Read More
Over the past twenty years some 100 places in the UK have attempted to build an innovation node or hub, but only about 10 of them have achieved real scale and maturity. By contrast, in the North West corridor of the US Eastern Seaboard, the area which spans from Boston to Washington… Read More
The UK public sector spends over £284 billion buying goods and services from suppliers. It is a huge market but there’s still a misconception that only large suppliers can compete for this work. In recent years there has been a drive for public sector organisations to award contracts to SMEs,… Read More
These courses aim to equip international city practitioners, commissioners, and decision makers with very practical training that can be applied independently from your local context. They will equip you with new concepts and ideas from some of our experts in the field of local innovation. Breaking the Silos on Local… Read More
Creating Connected Places online courses Creating Connected Places is a series of online courses provided by Connected Places Catapult and available on the City X City Academy platform. These courses aim to equip international city practitioners, commissioners, and decision makers with very practical training that can… Read More
The use of data in the construction industry and deployment of IoT on construction sites to drive better decision making, has huge benefits, helping project managers to make decisions quicker based on the real situation on the ground such as weather conditions and movement of materials. One key technology… Read More
