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Delivering the inner loops of a circular
economy
Nick Cliffe – Lead Technologist Resource Efficiency
07824 865 262
[email protected]
@moriati23
Who we are
• We are the UK’s innovation agency - a national body set up by government
• We are responsible for investing over £440m each year in UK innovation
• We work across business, universities and government
Our aim is simple...
...to accelerate economic growth by stimulating and
supporting business-led innovation
Over 100 competitions, committing ~£250m
60% of our grants go to small businesses
8000 companies
Networks have >90,000 members
More than 2000 years of business experience
What we do...
• We help strengthen the global competitive position of our leading
businesses
• We identify and grow sectors and businesses with the capacity to
become the best in the world
• We nurture the businesses that can succeed in the growth sectors
of tomorrow.
We consider...
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Can the UK do it?
Is the idea ‘ready’?
Is there a large market opportunity?
Can we make a difference?
We can help with....
• Funding
• Business & investment support
• Connections
• Networks
... through many different routes
Access to finance
Smart
Catalyst
Launchpad
Collaborative
R&D
Access to knowledge
Access to equipment and skills
Innovation &
Knowledge Centres
What areas do we work in?
Anticipated expenditure per area in 2014-15
Resource Efficiency: key drivers
• Resource constraints
- For minerals, metals etc absolute scarcity is rare but
impacts of exploitation are increasingly a constraint
- For biotic resources constraints include competing
resource uses, carrying capacity, and impacts of
exploitation
• Materials security
- Risk of supply interruption/non-availability for specific
materials, including many used in clean-tech/hi-tech
applications
• EU list of 20 critical raw materials
• Climate change
- Resource efficiency as a means to manage embedded
carbon
Resource Efficiency programme
Cuts across the strategy and programmes of Innovate UK
Addresses:
• reducing the quantity of materials used in products
• substituting materials that are environmentally unsound or
where long term supplies are insecure with better alternatives
• encouraging a more circular economy, where materials are
kept in productive use for longer by repair, re-use,
remanufacture and recycling.
Context for Resource Efficiency
Design
Raw Materials
Manufacture
Distribution
reduce
or
replace
Use
End-of-Life
repair
reuse
remanufacture
recycle
horizons.innovateuk.org
The Great Recovery
• Building networks of designers, materials experts and end-oflife businesses
• Exploring barriers to moving to circular business models
• Hub space in London FabLab to develop ideas
www.greatrecovery.org.uk
Circular Economy Value Networks
• Circular Economy approaches are as much about ‘business
models’ and (new) networks as about technology innovation.
• Value Networks are connected and aligned business models.
• Highly disruptive to current way of business but can enable
larger opportunities than a business can manage alone.
• Must provide benefits to the customer.
Recovering Valuable Materials from Waste
• January 2015
• £4.5m CR&D competition
• Reprocessors need quality, quantity and consistency of input
and output
• Support to develop new processes for continuously
produced waste streams to maximise value
• Materials not energy
• Up to £800k, 24 months
product to service shift...
Circular Economy: Business Models
A collaborative Feasibility Study competition to explore the
business case for retaining value in goods through reuse,
remanufacture or leasing/repair.
 Up to £800k available
 Projects £25 – 50k and 6 months duration
 Led by a business owning the relationship with the final
customer
 Development of new ‘value networks’ expected
 Output should be a business case and pilot project plan
 A second round to fund a small number of pilots is
proposed
Circular Economy: Business Models
• Durable goods
• Focus on inner loops
Manufacturer
• Repair, Reuse & Remanufacture
• Customer relationship is key
• Explore the business case
‘Retailer’
‘re’organisation
customer
reuse
reuse
reuse
remanufacture
remanufacture
remanufacture  leasing
Stay in touch...
• www.innovateuk.org/funding-competitions
• ktn.innovateuk.org – join sectors of interest
• Twitter:
– @innovate_uk