Innovate UK / UKRI
Innovate UK is the UK’s national innovation agency, supporting business-led research and development across all sectors, technologies and regions. It operates as part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), which brings together the seven Research Councils, Innovate UK and Research England. Innovate UK typically supports projects through competitive calls for business-led innovation (GOV.UK).
Website: ukri.org
Relationship
Innovate UK / UKRI is NquiringMinds’ primary collaborative R&D partner. The majority of NQM’s collaborative research projects are delivered with Innovate UK / UKRI, including TAIBOM, CAHN, SNbD, FLAIR, LINZI, CropDoc, Care Analytics, GrainSense and iAM-3DPO, among others.
Case studies
- AI supply-chain assurance for the AI industry using cryptographically signed bills of materials
- Continuously assured networking for future telecoms using AI trust reasoning
- Router and network security for ISPs and router vendors using CHERI/Morello memory-safe hardware
- Business intelligence and risk management for professional & financial services using LLMs
- Net-zero engagement for local government using conversational AI
- Potato blight management for Chinese agriculture using AI and satellite imagery
- Social-care planning and prediction for local authorities using AI analytics
- Rice crop life-cycle optimisation for Indian farmers using IoT sensing and machine learning
- Zero-defect metal additive manufacturing for aerospace and industrial supply chains using AI closed-loop process optimisation
