Engineering biology Contracts for Innovation

This online networking platform has been created to support applicants interested in applying for Innovate UK's Contracts for Innovation competition. It will allow innovators to connect with like-minded individuals and form collaborative partnerships to address the identified challenge areas. We strongly encourage you to create a B2Match profile so you can meet other innovators and the challenge holders. 

 Once the competition is live (expected later this year, subject to approvals) consortia must include and be led by SMEs. With this in mind, we recommend that SMEs meet with the challenge holders, while academics are encouraged to meet with SMEs working in their field of interest.

Post on the marketplace: Share information about your project, outline what you need help with, or describe the types of connections you’re hoping to make.  

Message individuals directly: Prefer one-to-one contact? No problem! Reach out to people directly to see if you’d be a good match to work together. 

Book a meeting with a potential collaborator: These sessions are designed to help you quickly assess each other’s interests and expertise, identify common goals, and uncover areas of common interest.

• Low-cost, real-time water quality monitoring for policy, public health, and ecosystem management using genomic monitoring and surveillance  

• Predicting ecosystem health and resilience from eDNA via AI-driven functional genomics 

• Accelerating next generation veterinary vaccines through engineering biology 

• Rapid diagnostics to maintain food standards and regulatory compliance.