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ISCF

Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF) is helping to future-proof UK Industry.

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ISCF

Helping to future-proof UK Industry.

Summary

KTN has delivered the engagement programe, with industry and the research base, in the first wave of the Government’s Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF), an initiative to help futureproof UK industry. Likely to be worth over £2 billion from 2017-21, the ISCF will support collaborations between business and the UK science base, driving progress in technologies in which we have world-leading strengths and significant market opportunities.

The first wave of ISCF programmes has now been announced in healthcare and medicines; robotics and artificial intelligence; batteries for clean and flexible energy storage; self-driving vehicles; manufacturing and materials for the future; and satellites and space technology.

As part of its new Industrial Strategy, the Government announced funding in the 2016 Autumn Statement to help future-proof UK industry. The Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF), is likely to be over £2bn of new money from 2017-21 and will support collaborations between business and the UK science base; boosting developing sectors to drive progress in technologies in which we have world-leading strengths and significant market opportunities.

KTN has played a key role in the first wave of ISCF; organising 9 engagement workshops across the UK in January 2017 which confirmed industry appetite for increased investment in research & development and innovation across all sectors critical to the UK’s future economy.

The first wave of ISCF programmes has now been announced in:

Through further engagement and through its ongoing involvement with Leadership Councils and their equivalents, KTN continues to bring industry, academia and others together to address a step change in the UK’s capability to build new business around these themes, and to develop new themes for future investment.

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