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Connected Places Catapult – Written Evidence (CAT0002) Connected Places Catapult – Written evidence (CAT0002) The contribution of innovation Catapults to delivering the R&D Roadmap Introduction to Connected Places Catapult Connected Places Catapult is the UK’s innovation accelerator for cities, transport, and places. We provide impartial ‘innovation as a service’ for public bodies, businesses, and infrastructure providers to catalyse step-change improvements in the way people live, work and travel. We connect businesses and public sector leaders to cutting-edge research to spark innovation and grow new markets. We run technology demonstrators and SME accelerators to scale new solutions that drive growth, spread prosperity, and eliminate carbon. Orchestrating innovation ecosystems R&D strategy often concerns itself with the invention of the next breakthrough technology – new wonder materials such as graphene or harnessing the theoretical powers of quantum computing technology. However, this focus on invention risks overlooking the importance of wider interactions and enabling activities that both accelerate and anchor innovation ecosystems, and – through creation of clusters – can capture the spill-over benefits of innovation activity to produce sustained gains in regional productivity. Similarly, the pathway for core technology R&D activity is often described as a linear process – from the germ of an idea, through research laboratory, trials and testing and finally a valuable commercial product. However, the pathway for systems level adoption and service innovation of these technologies is a much more iterative process, involving the matching of end user needs (market pull) with the art of the technically possible (technology push) through orchestration of regulation, engagement, collaboration and a coherent and aligned set of activities. At Connected Places Catapult, we work to establish the mechanisms, programmes and networks required to enable the growth of highly productive, innovation ecosystems and to create shorter pathways to market for innovators. Question 1: What are the latest science and technology developments underpinning your Catapult that will lead to commercialisation? Connected Places Catapult is working with innovators, industry and asset owners to explore and accelerate novel applications of large-scale technology developments – artificial intelligence and autonomy; advanced modelling and data fusion enabled by ever-increasing computer power; next generation telecommunications connectivity; and energy generation, distribution and storage technologies. We examine how they impact on our six domains of focus – that is, decision making (governance), built environment, mobility, public realm, wellbeing and critical infrastructure. We have made significant investments (‘big bets’ in the language of the R&D Roadmap) in autonomy, specifically in connected and autonomous vehicles (CAV), where we played a pivotal role in establishing the UK as a global leader in CAV, and now increasingly in drones and larger applications of unmanned air mobility (UAM).1 We undertake regular assessments of the science and technology developments with greatest potential for commercial application by businesses in the connected places market as part of our strategic analysis programme which informs our business strategy and investments. This analysis includes using natural language processing to scan 4,000 research topics (‘fronts’) to identify those areas most aligned to our market building mission and scrutinising the R&D outputs of the most topical 250 areas for insights from the leading-edge of research. The connected places market is being shaped by the same large-scale technology developments active in other sectors – artificial intelligence and autonomy; advanced modelling and data fusion enabled by ever-increasing computer power; next generation telecommunications connectivity; and energy generation and storage technologies, with the specific technologies and related new commercial models expressed in the table below. 1 Further detail on our impact on CAV is outlined in the accompanying document: From Lutz Pathfinder to HumanDrive Trend Specific Commercial models enabled technology Autonomy Connected and Driverless logistics e.g. delivery robots Autonomy road New taxi services Industrial applications in ports and factories Vehicles (CAV) Automated flight Urban Air Mobility (UAM) – flying taxis Drone (UAV) automation for e.g. asset inspection, blue light services etc. AI / increase Data modelling Smart building management in computing Predictive models for usage e.g. people power flow through built environment, on- demand transport services Digital twins Predictive maintenance for infrastructure Large system modelling (e.g. city traffic) Connectivity Comms e.g. 5G Enabling digital infrastructure which underpins other applications e.g. UAVs & data collection for digital twins Sensors Granular, real-time data capture to inform decision making & e.g. digital twins Energy Battery Electric Vehicles (including road based technology but also short- range electric aviation, shipping etc.) Unmanned Air Mobility (drones) Infrastructure deployment Hydrogen Energy dense transport e.g. Heavy Goods Vehicles, aviation & shipping and domestic heat Infrastructure deployment CPC focus on supporting the scaling of new technologies based upon the anticipated size of the market and economic, environmental and societal benefits, as well as supporting the emergence of new technologies. Since there are also segments of the connected places market which have been slow to adopt even fairly well-established technologies (the long-tail of laggards in the classic graph of UK productivity), we are also working hard to accelerate the commercial uptake of these impactful technologies in sectors which have proved slow to integrate. The digitisation of land use planning is a prime example of this: The technology to create dynamic, data-driven and machine-readable local planning services has been available for some time, but local government planning departments and the developers with whom they work, have been slow to adopt new tools and approaches. In 2016, Connected Places Catapult launched the Future of Planning programme to accelerate the application and adoption of digital technologies in local planning services. Through collaborations with innovators in the public and private sector to demonstrate the art of the possible, engagement with regulators to map and tackle outdated planning rules which hindered the use of innovative approaches, and partnerships with training providers and professional bodies to ensure that customers of ‘Plantech’ solutions have the skills needed to harness them, we sparked the creation of a whole new sector and drove changes to national planning policy – digital innovation is a central theme in the 2020 Planning White Paper, Planning for the Future, with more than 50 references to digitisation. Question 2: How might such science and technology developments lead to a substantial increase in private sector funding of R&D in the areas covered by your Catapult? The science and technology developments in artificial intelligence and autonomy; advanced modelling and data fusion enabled by ever-increasing computer power; next generation telecommunications connectivity; and energy generation and storage technologies relate to areas of capability in UK academia and industry. As the global markets for each of these services grows, there is a huge opportunity to attract domestic and inward investment in R&D. Connected Places Catapult is working to stimulate this investment in a number of ways, as illustrated by three examples below. Firstly, by acting as an innovation catalyst, domain expert and connecter between organisations. For example, Connected Places Catapult launched its first CAV R&D project with industry and academia in 2014 – the LUTZ Pathfinder. Two years later, that project delivered a world first by demonstrating an autonomous vehicle in a public space. LUTZ Pathfinder stimulated an additional £435 million investment in UK CAV research and cemented the concept of ‘Intelligent Mobility’ in the traditional transport sector. The demonstration also generated £110 million in advertising value equivalent value, raising the profile of the UK as a global hub for the research, development and integration of automated and connected vehicles into society. LUTZ Pathfinder laid the foundation for further public and private investment in CAV. By December 2019, £900m of inward investment had been attracted to the UK, with major industry players (Nissan, Hitachi) consolidating their CAV capabilities here as a result of our pioneering activities. In January 2020, the HumanDrive consortium comprising Nissan, Hitachi, Cranfield University, University of Leeds, and several others – all coordinated by Connected Places Catapult – saw a self-driving car successfully complete a 230 mile Grand Drive in a £13.2M project (including £8.7M from Innovate UK)– the single longest and most complex journey undertaken by an autonomous vehicle on UK roads. Secondly, SMEs are a considerable source of innovation in the connected place market. Our SME network consists of 2,500 SMEs selected against their alignment with CPC domains and their high-growth potential. This number is increasing at a rate of 200 new businesses per year and covers early stage to later stages SMEs in our domains. Connected Places Catapult provides its network support programme at no cost to the SMEs by leveraging the need of
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