Active Projects
BeefTwin - £1.2M
Project to leverage AI and digital twin technology to improve efficiency, reduce environmental impact, and bolster food security.
Funding Body: UK Research and Innovation
Project Collaborators: Kinnordy Estate, Goodbeef Index, NTU Home Farm, University of Sheffield, University of Exeter, Nottingham Business School, The Centre for Business & Industry Transformation
Blue Zone Training - £300K
Project to promote cross-sectoral collaboration, increase co-creation of research, clarity of ideas, and technology adoption through the transfer of people and know-how.
Funding Body: Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
Project Collaborators: University Industry Innovation Network, University of Leicester, Northumbria University, Nottingham Business School, The Centre for Business & Industry Transformation
AI Supply Chain KTP - £225K
Project to enable supply chain visibility, predictability, and demand-driven forecasts using AI technologies.
Funding Body: Innovate UK
Project Collaborators: Barberboss, Nottingham Business School, The Centre for Business & Industry Transformation, CBIT Venture Builder
STEAM Venture Builder Empowerment - £492K
“Train the Trainers” – project to empower the top 3 Thai universities’ knowledge exchange teams, science parks, entrepreneurship professionals and consultants to better commercialise high-tech ventures, with a focus on AI implementation.
Funding Body: British Council
Project Collaborators: Nottingham Business School (NBS), Centre for Business & Industry Transformation (CBIT), CBIT Venture Builder, Chiang Mai University’s Science and Technology Park (STeP), Mae Fah Luang University’s Institute for Innovation and Economic Development (MFii), International Network of Entrepreneurial Interdisciplinary Champions (INEIC), Program Management Unit for Human Resources & Institutional Development, Research and Innovation (PMU-B).
MOSMOP - £160K
Project to shift sustainability from a cost centre to a profit driver, identifying business models that align environmental impact with profitability.
Funding Body: British Council
Project Collaborators: Shanghai Jiao Tong University, CEIBS, Think ESG, Nottingham Business School, The Centre for Business & Industry Transformation
STEAM Founders Experiential Learning Programme - £50K
Venture Building sprint-style training sessions for groups of Thai STEAM Founders, performed in both Thailand and the UK.
Funding Body: Thailand Science Research & Innovation (TSRI)
Project Collaborators: Chaing Mai University, Chulalongkorn University, Nottingham Business School (NBS), Centre for Business & Industry Transformation (CBIT), CBIT Venture Builder
SME Engagement with Regional Procurement - £75K
Co-creating a digital platform to support construction SMEs across the East Midlands in navigating public procurement.
Funding Body: East Midlands Combined County Authority (EMCCA)
Project Collaborators: SME Tender Hub, East Midlands Combined County Authority (EMCCA), Bolsover District Council, NTU School of Architecture, Design and the Built Environment, Centre for Business & Industry Transformation (CBIT), CBIT Venture Builder
Completed Projects (£55M+)
| Project | Project Briefing | Funder Link | CBIT Leads | Status | CTA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PriVELT | Privacy-aware personal data management and Value Enhancement for Leisure Travellers (PriVELT) PriVELT aims to develop an innovative user-centric and privacy-aware digital platform that will empower leisure travellers to better manage the sharing of their personal data with travel service providers and other entities and foster new business opportunities for the travel and tourism industry through encouraging better (more transparent and effective) usage of travellers' data. | Learn More | XM, JB | Delivered | Connect with Us |
| MyMaskFit | The masks will be the first fully custom-fitted, reusable, filtering face piece (FFP) masks made to this standard in the UK. | Learn More | XM JB GI | Delivered | Connect with Us |
| Marketplaces Data Building - High Value Manufacturing Catapult | Marketplaces Data Building - High Value Manufacturing Catapult | XM JB GI | Delivered | Connect with Us | |
| WMG Accelerator | The accelerator is a combination of resources from the High Value Manufacturing catapult and WMG – the University of Warwick, supporting early stage businesses with MVP (minimum viable products) to further develop a product/service for market success. | Learn More | XM JB GI | Delivered | Connect with Us |
| DROPS | Dynamic, Real time, On-demand Personalisation for Scaling (DROPS). we will co-create the technology with future end users of ThingsSpace (publishers, SMEs, designers of personalized digital products) and end users of personalised e-books (teachers, parents, children). This multi-stakeholder approach will allow us to ensure that the aspired values of e-books (for learning and privacy) are aligned with the economic models used to monetise this technology and the technical platform that delivers it. The code for ThingsSpace will be open source in order to allow other researchers and commercial parties to transfer our project findings to the diverse domains that digital personalisation is currently used, e.g. Finance, HealthCare, Social Media. | Learn More | XM | Delivered | Connect with Us |
| KET4CP | Pan-European Access for man. SME on tech. services for clean production through a Network of premier KET Technology Centres with one stop shop access incl. EEN and discourse with policy makers on RIS3 | Learn More | XM JB GI | Delivered | Connect with Us |
| FAIR-SPACE | The research will merge the best available off-the-shelf hardware and software solutions with trail-blazing innovations and new standards and frameworks, aiming at the development of a constellation of space robotics prototypes and tools. This aims to accelerate the prototyping of autonomous systems in a scalable way, where the innovations and methodologies developed can be rapidly spun out for wide adoption in the space sector worldwide. | Learn More | XM JB GI | Delivered | Connect with Us |
| Accept | Addressing Cybersecurity and Cybercrime via a co-Evolutionary aPproach to reducing human-relaTed risks | Learn More | XM | Delivered | Connect with Us |
| ConTriVE | Control and Trust as Moderating Mechanisms in addressing Vulnerability for the Design of Business and Economic Models (ConTriVE) | Learn More | XM | Delivered | Connect with Us |
| CUDEL | China EUrope Digital Economy Laboratory (CUDEL) | XM JB | Delivered | Connect with Us | |
| HARRIET | Smart Me versus Smart Things: The Development of a Personal Resource Planning (PRP) System through Human Interactions with Data Enabled by the IoT | Learn More | XM | Delivered | Connect with Us |
| HAT | Home Hub-of-all-Things (HAT) as Platform for Multi-sided Market powered by Internet-of-Things: Opportunities for New Economic & Business Model | Learn More | XM | Delivered | Connect with Us |
| NEMODE | Digital Economy 'New Economic Models' Network+ | Learn More | XM | Delivered | Connect with Us |
| Inspires | Innovative Networks Supporting People Who Investigate Research Environments and Spaces | Learn More | XM JB | Delivered | Connect with Us |
| IMAGINE | Innovative End-to-end Management of Dynamic Manufacturing Networks | Learn More | XM JB | Delivered | Connect with Us |
| IIPSI | The International Institute for Product and Service Innovation | XM JB | Delivered | Connect with Us | |
| SPIRES | Designing Effective Research Spaces Sandpit: SPIRES- Supporting People Investigating Research Environments and Spaces | Learn More | XM JB | Delivered | Connect with Us |
| CCM-Incubator | Collaborative Commercial Marketplace and Virtual Incubator demonstrator Commonwealth Secretariat and World Bank | XM JB | Delivered | Connect with Us | |
| CCM-STFC | An intelligent method to automatically match interdisciplinary research grants with research groups’ capability. | XM JB | Delivered | Connect with Us | |
| MediGate | Next Generation Healthcare - MediGate | Learn More | XM JB | Delivered | Connect with Us |
| WMCCM | West Midlands Collaborative Commerce Marketplace (WMCCM) | XM JB | Delivered | Connect with Us | |
| PLASTEAM | Competitive research and innovation for the European plastics processing supply chain (PLASTEAM) | Learn More | XM JB | Delivered | Connect with Us |