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Category: Blog Created: Friday, 28 August 2020 16:19

My name is Sarah Connolly and it is my job within Innovate UK to drive innovation in the Foundation Industries. As part of the Clean Growth Grand Challenge within the government’s Industrial Strategy, the Transforming Foundation Industries Challenge aims to …

My name is Sarah Connolly and it is my job within Innovate UK to drive innovation in the Foundation Industries.

As part of the Clean Growth Grand Challenge within the government’s Industrial Strategy, the Transforming Foundation Industries Challenge aims to help businesses across the foundation industries (metals, glasses, paper, ceramics, cements and bulk chemicals) share expertise and develop radical innovations to increase their sustainability and remain internationally competitive.

pile of sand outside a cement factory

About the challenge

The Challenge will invest £149 million through the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF) to ensure these sectors make improvements to their energy and resource efficiency, meaning they are ready to meet the government commitment of net zero carbon emissions by 2050.

Over the span of the Challenge, a new £50 million pilot facility will be set up to accelerate development of promising clean technologies.

Funding will be provided for industry-led research into ways to utilise resources such as raw materials and energy more efficiently, for university-led research into radical new technologies.

a paper and pulp mill at work

Creating partnerships

Co-investment partnerships with the financial sector will encourage greater investment in fast-moving technology companies that can reduce the environmental impact of these industries.

Above all, these sectors will be brought together as the Foundation Industries, allowing cross-sector development of solutions to common resource and energy efficiency challenges.

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Early successes

On the 28^th October 2019, the Transforming Foundation Industries launched its first competition. Up to £5 million was available for cross-sector, collaborative, short duration industrial research and development projects.

Through the many high-quality applications received, with consortia involving 89 companies and research organisations, spanning all 6 sectors, 13 successful projects are due to launch, with the first having started on the 1^st July 2020.

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Stay tuned

This series of blogs covers the cross-cutting challenges facing these industries, and highlights some of the amazing work already being done to increase innovation within these sectors in the early stages of the Transforming Foundation Industries Challenge.

These challenges cover innovations in waste utilisation and symbiosis, heat recovery, sensor development and digitalisation and energy efficient process developments as well as social challenges.

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Internet at the speed of lightning.

The desire for quicker and quicker internet connection is actually pushing the technology forward. Firms and personal users are continuously demanding quicker response times and the industry is responding. With lightning-fast net speeds just around the corner, it needs to be transformative for all facets of our own lives. If it be attained, it is going to raise the efficiency of employees and will offer dependable communication tools for businesses that rely on remote workers. This is the area where 5G may have the ability to change the world as far as our "regular" net did a few decades ago. That is if it does not kill us, naturally.

Life-enriching smart technology will change the house technological inventions flexible displays.

Increasingly more of our own lives have become integrated with intelligent technology. Our houses no exception. Requirement for better smart home appliances and home entertainment systems are altering the way we interact. Whether for better or worse, now is merely the tip of this iceberg. Present trends appear to indicate a larger need for greater control over how we're entertained in the house from technician. 1 area which might be something to see is some thing known as elastic viewing surfaces. These promise to be in a position to curve round any surroundings will transform home entertainment and advertisements beyond all comprehension.

Dextrous robots could be with us very shortly.

Computers and robots really are dumb. Very dumb really. In case their job environment varies even slightly out of their happy-go-lucky process and the entire production line may come to a grinding stop. This is really where improving robotic dexterity provides an unbelievable chance for much more flexible automation. One example is a project named Dactyl, which has educated itself to reverse a toy with it has palms.

Brain-computer interface is nearly here.

Innovations like Elon Musk's Neuralink can produce the mouse and computer keyboard obsolete in the long run. Work in this area is continuing apace and claims to permit us to control computers only by believing. We will allow you to decide whether this is revolutionary or never to you personally working and everyday life.

Swallowable medical apparatus are on the road.

Little, swallowable devices are now being developed that may capture pictures of your guts with no need for anesthetic. They can even be utilised in babies and kids. Once completely developed these modest medical instruments will revolutionize the way health professionals diagnose and track some very serious ailments. This is going to be a remarkably effective tool for things such as cancer and autoimmune ailments like environmental enteric dysfunction.

Customized cancer vaccines might be a reality soon.

Because of technological developments such as the Human Genome Project, personalized medications and vaccines might be just round the corner. One interesting application for this is that the prospect of creating personalized cancer vaccines. This may sound somewhat farfetched, but it's estimated that medical professionals may shortly train your immune system to recognize and destroy cancer cells. This, if attained, could make cancer a thing of the past.

Fancy a cow-free hamburger?

Technological inventions meat-free meat. Meat is a very important part of a nutritious diet, so we're advised, but it includes a little problem - a creature should die. Developments are in movement to offer the planet with animal-free meat. Additionally, it will supply a way for humanity to decrease our collective desire for meat's influence on Earth.

An end to sewers is about the way (ideally).

Developments are afoot to push ahead with"green" bathrooms which don't require a link to a sewage system and also may treat waste immediately. Not only can this be radical for cities of the future, but it is going to bring irreparable sanitation to a lot of areas of the planet that now lack this"luxury". Philanthropists Bill Gates was conducting a contest known as"Reinvent the Toilet Challenge" to discover appropriate, workable prototypes for it. Many entrances are in reality quite promising and after self indulgent, self control metabolizing systems will benefit humanity and the environment for the better.