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We connect local businesses to spark innovative collaborations that generate opportunities for growth.

If you're an established business wanting to diversify or improve your offerings, you can post a challenge to unearth groundbreaking ideas. If you're an emerging business looking for new customers and access to larger markets, check out our open challenges and see where your expertise can thrive

What is challenge-led innovation?

Challenge-led innovation is a process which seeks to find innovative solutions to challenges. Put simply, it’s a means of sharing a work context or problem within a safe wider environment so that partners, and sometimes even competitors, can help find a way forward.

Challenge-led innovation typically involves larger organisations looking outside their company and inviting solutions from the business community. To achieve this, they create a trusted environment in which issues can be discussed and collaborative solutions found.

Innovative solutions with real impact

From supporting older people with innovative digital solutions, to delivering energy-efficient homes, to developing self-test kits that could help detect prostate cancer - our Challenges have brought businesses and communities together to create real impact.

Browse our previous Challenges and see where you could get involved. 

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