Women in Innovation

Women in Innovation

For the first time, the Chamber’s IUK EDGE team are supporting one of 50 leading entrepreneurs on Innovate UK’s Women in Innovation Awards

The support empowers pioneering women to scale their innovative businesses, by benefiting from a £50,000 grant in addition to one-toone business coaching and a suite of networking, role mod-elling, and training opportunities.

From Aberdeen to Portsmouth and Belfast to Cambridge, this year’s winners of Innovate UK’s Women in Innovation Awards are developing novel solutions to major social, environmental and economic challenges.

• using plants to recover metal from contaminated land

• deploying satellite data to detect long-lost archaeological sites

• an artificial intelligence (AI) that curbs your unhealthy cravings

• 3D-printed bionic prosthetics

New generation of women

Emily Nott, Head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Programmes at Innovate UK said:

“Each year I am blown away by the brilliant ideas and talent we uncover through our Women in Innovation programme. Despite these challenging economic times, this year’s winners have shown great leadership, passion and resilience in driving their innovations forward.

Innovate UK will work alongside them now to ensure they have the resources and support required to grow and scale their businesses, while encouraging a new generation of women to get involved in innovation, pursue their ambitions and transform our economy and society.”