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Innovate UK Business Growth - 29th October 2025
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Welcome to the Innovate UK Midlands Newsletter!
Your go-to source for the latest innovation news, funding opportunities, success stories, and upcoming events in the Midlands region.
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Recognising intellectual property success at the WIPO Global Awards 2025
Read about a recent win for Innovate UK’s client Quinas Technology, where they were awarded a World Intellectual Property Organisation Global Award. The Innovate team began working with the tech innovator in March 2023, shortly after its incorporation.
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Progress on our commitments to women innovators
Innovate UK is advancing its Pledge for Progress with practical actions - improving women-focused awards, launching a Community Forum, enhancing application processes, increasing support visibility, and working toward 50% women assessors - to make innovation more accessible, accountable, and inclusive for women innovators across the UK.
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Biomedical Catalyst investment fuelling innovative healthcare solutions
Innovate UK’s Biomedical Catalyst is backing UK health and life sciences SMEs with targeted investment to help translate breakthrough ideas, like AI-powered stroke rehab, wearable biosensors, and digital women’s health solution, into commercial products, accelerating patient access to innovation and driving economic growth.
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GeoAI Festival: Unleash Innovation at the Intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Geospatial Satellite Data
The GeoAI Festival, launched by Innovate UK, is a six-month initiative bringing together innovators to develop commercial solutions using geospatial AI and Earth Observation data - offering a Build and Pitch programme, tailored mentorship, and industry events to tackle real-world challenges in agri-food, climate, nature, and green finance.
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Global Business Innovation Programme - Semiconductors - Singapore 2025
Join Innovate UK’s Global Business Innovation Programme to unlock opportunities in Singapore, Asia’s gateway to advanced manufacturing and fast-growing tech markets. Get expert preparation, curated partner meetings, and fully funded support to turn global connections into growth.
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 Global Business Innovation Programme - Women in Innovation in Health-Tech, India (Bengaluru & Chennai)
Empowering UK women-led health-tech businesses, this Innovate UK programme offers a unique opportunity to connect with India’s vibrant MedTech and biotech sectors in Bengaluru and Chennai through a tailored, fully-funded R&D and market access mission - open to innovative companies with women in senior leadership roles, focused on digital health, AI diagnostics, wearables, women’s health, and more.
Apply by the 13th November 2025: Find out more
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 Global Business Innovation Programme: Critical materials and midstream processing and recycling, Australia
This fully funded Innovate UK mission invites UK innovation-led SMEs to Australia for expert-led workshops and a two-week market visit, helping them forge R&D partnerships and explore critical materials, midstream processing, and recycling opportunities vital to the Net Zero transition - ideal for companies aiming to grow global supply chains and collaborate with top Australian partners.
Apply by the 23rd November 2025: Find out more
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Global Business Innovation Programme - AI Enhanced Manufacturing, USA (Boston & Pittsburgh)
The USA is a hub for breakthrough innovation, with world-leading expertise in advanced manufacturing, robotics, and industrial R&D. This GBIP to Boston and Pittsburgh will give UK businesses the chance to build partnerships, launch joint projects, and unlock market opportunities in a dynamic global economy.
Apply by the 14th November 2025: Find out more
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