Innovation and the Transition to a Low Carbon Economy

A continually growing area of our work is supporting the development and uptake of technology-enabled tools and services for the public sector to support policy making and the delivery of public services and operations as well as maximising the local economic, social and environmental benefits arising from the transition to a low carbon economy.

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Maximising Local Economic, Social and Environmental Benefits Arising from the Transition to a Low Carbon Economy

 

We work with local authorities and other public bodies to maximise the potential for cleaner economic growth associated with the transition to a low carbon economy. In particular, our work in this field has been to explore the opportunities to ensure economic and social benefits achieved in the transition to a lower carbon economy are realised at the local level, leading to stronger local economies and stronger communities.

 

We prepare vision papers, policy briefings, strategies, demand analyses and feasibility studies to help shape and challenge emerging policy areas associated with the transition to a low carbon economy.

 

We also support local authorities seeking to engage more closely with key national public and private sector decision makers and influencers, including senior civil servants and industry leaders, to make the case for future public and private sector investment at the local and sub-regional scale to maximise the potential of such opportunities.

 

Facilitating the Uptake of Technology-Enabled Tools and Services by the Public Sector to Promote Healthy Urban Living, Active Travel and Sustainable Development

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We also work directly with innovation-led small and medium sized businesses, research-led universities and not-for-profit research institutions to design and develop projects aimed at helping facilitate the development and demonstration of innovative new technology-enabled tools and services for use by the public sector, through harnessing Space, ICT and Low Carbon technologies.

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We collaborate as part of consortia of small and medium sized businesses to initiate and deliver projects of our own, usually in response to open funding calls for proposals from Government funding programmes, such as those provided through the UK Space Agency and the Satellite Applications Catapult. These projects are typically aimed at advancing the development of innovative new Space and Satellite-enabled tools and services to enhance public policy making and enable smarter and more effective delivery of public services and operations. For example, to enable the public sector to better manage and mitigate the impacts of adverse ambient air pollution on the health and well-being of citizens. This includes supporting urban planners and transport planners identify mitigating measures to reduce the impact of air pollution exposure, enabling healthcare professionals to include air pollution management in patient treatment and health self-management programmes and providing the public sector with solutions for smarter and more efficient means of delivery of public sector policies for active travel, health care, health risk reduction and sustaining healthy urban environments.

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Our Key Strengths

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Through our direct experience and in-depth understanding of the public sector and in particular how to work effectively within a public sector environment, we are able to support businesses and universities in developing productive working relationships with local authorities and other public sector bodies. In this way, we have been able to develop projects, in partnership with the public sector, to demonstrate proof-of-concept and hold pre—operational trials of innovative new technology-enabled tools and services to raise awareness and encourage their uptake by the public sector in order to enhance public policy making and enable smarter, more efficient delivery of public services. Typically, our role in these projects focusses on facilitating public sector development partnerships, preparing project proposals, writing funding bids and managing the bidding process, providing project management support, coordinating end-user and stakeholder engagement, report writing, evaluation and dissemination.

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We are highly skilled at forming collaborative partnerships between the business and academic communities and the public sector to take forward joint research and innovation projects at the local, sub-national and trans-national level. We have a strong track record of preparing joint funding bids (ideas, stakeholder engagement, bid writing, project coordination and management) on behalf of these ‘triple-helix’ partnerships to secure funding to deliver joint innovation projects that make a real difference to strategies and the delivery of public sector services 'on the ground’.

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