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The Innovation Funding Sandpit/Sesiwn Bwrw Syniadau Cyllid Arloesi
A practical half-day interactive session in Cardiff focused on shaping fundable academic–business collaborations, featuring funder insight, case studies and hands-on collaboration clinics, with lunch and networking included.
Date: Wednesday 1 July 2026
Time: 9:00 AM – 1:30 PM
Location: Hadyn Ellis Building, Cardiff
A practical sandpit session designed to help academics, businesses and innovation professionals understand innovation funding routes and actively develop collaboration ideas.
- What attendees will gain:
- Clearer understanding of relevant funding routes
- New academic–business connections
- Early-stage collaboration ideas shaped and stress-tested
- Practical next steps for progressing projects
- Topics include:
- Innovate UK and Welsh Government priorities
- What funders look for in collaborative projects
- Common academic–business partnership challenges (IP, readiness, adoption)
- Lessons from real collaborations
- Collab Clinics (chosen at registration):
- Find Your Collaborators
- Funding Readiness & Bid Building
- Challenge-led Innovation & Public Sector Routes
- Included: Lunch and informal networking
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Hadyn Ellis Building, Cardiff
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Hadyn Ellis Building
From 09.00am Until 01.30pm
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