Sustainability
The world is changing at an ever greater pace. Industry and innovators are responding, working together to create the products, services and businesses of the future. KTN is here to help.
We make the full range of diverse connections required to shape a more positive future: technology, design, supply chains, business models, behaviour change, systems change. We are committed to driving innovation that is sustainable – responsible, resilient and even regenerative.
KTN helps drive innovation that can reduce industry’s environmental footprint and improve resource efficiency, and also create benefits such as competitive advantage and enhanced value-add for the customer. By making the right connections – for instance to cutting edge knowledge & research, the best solution providers, and testing facilities.
KTN helps innovators navigate the journey to market fruition. We make connections to the multitude of skills and assets required to bring any product or service to market. And of course the funding and finance that might be required.
KTN works extensively with stakeholders – from national and regional government to national and regional government, Catapults, clusters, trade associations, learned institutions, expert consultancies, think tanks and charities. We connect seemingly disparate stakeholders to shape a better innovation landscape, and multiply the impact that any one of these organisations could have alone. To help drive positive change.
To explore this topic further take a look at the Horizons tool.

Our current focus in this area
Current Sustainability funding opportunities
SBRI: MRV tools and techniques for land based greenhouse gas removal, phase 1
Opens: 27/06/2022 Closes: 07/09/2022
Organisations can apply for a share of £375,000, inclusive of VAT, to develop tools, technologies and techniques to assist and enable the monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) of land based greenhouse gas removal (GGR) methods.
More Information
Farming Futures R&D Fund: Sustainable farm-based protein
Opens: 25/07/2022 Closes: 21/09/2022
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £12.5 million across the two strands of this competition to develop innovative solutions for sustainable farm-based protein production (covering livestock, plants, novel animal feed production systems such as algae/seaweed/insects, bioecono
More Information
TechX Clean Energy Accelerator
Opens: 01/08/2022 Closes: 09/10/2022
TechX’s Clean Energy Accelerator is an intensive 15-week programme for 12 innovative clean energy start-ups with clear potential to significantly accelerate the transition to an affordable net zero energy industry.
More Information
Related Events and Recordings
Our Experts
Related News

22/06/2022
Webinar Series: Heating for Net Zero - Decarbonisation of Buildings and Estates
The Net Zero Places Innovation Network aims to help make Net Zero in the UK a reality. We do this by supporting local/regional authorities and agencies. This webinar series will answer the most common questions from local authorities to decarbonise buildings and estates.
Read more

16/06/2022
Geo for Earth - Episode 3: How do we mobilise the trillions of dollars necessary to transition to a low carbon economy and build a more equitable & just society?
In the third episode of the Geo for Earth podcast, we explore how finance can tackle injustice by supporting business to understand financial risk, and transfer wealth from developed to developing countries for the benefit of the environment and the people that look after it.