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Accelerating Business Growth, Stimulating Markets

The Catapult Network brings together nine leading technology and innovation centres spanning over 50 locations across the UK. We are independent not-for-profit private organisations transforming the UK’s capability for innovation in sectors of strength.

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  • Cell And Gene Therapy
  • Compound Semiconductor Applications
  • Connected Places
  • Digital
  • Energy Systems
  • High Value Manufacturing
  • Medicines Discovery
  • Offshore Renewable Energy
  • Satellite Applications
  • Cell And Gene Therapy

    Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult is creating powerful collaborations that deliver impact in cell and gene therapies. As an independent innovation and technology organisation, it is committed to the advancement of cell and gene therapies, with a vision for a thriving industry delivering life-changing advanced therapies to the world.

  • Compound Semiconductor Applications

    Compound Semiconductor Applications Catapult is the UK’s authority on compound semiconductor applications and commercialisation. Established to help the UK become a global leader in compound semiconductors, they specialise in collaborating with both large companies, and start-ups to develop and commercialise new applications utilising this technology.

  • Connected Places

    Connected Places Catapult is the UK’s innovation accelerator for cities, transport and place leadership. They 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.

  • Digital

    Digital Catapult is the UK authority on advanced digital technology. Through collaboration and innovation, they accelerate industry adoption to drive growth and opportunity across the economy. Digital Catapult’s specialist programmes and experimental facilities make sure that innovation thrives and the right solutions make it to the real world.

  • Energy Systems

    Energy Systems Catapult are accelerating the UK to Net Zero by turbo-boosting clean tech innovations and designing the low carbon energy system of the future. By taking a take a whole-systems view of the energy sector, Energy Systems Catapult identify and address innovation priorities and market barriers, in order to decarbonise the energy system at the lowest cost.

  • High Value Manufacturing

    High Value Manufacturing Catapult works with thousands of companies each year to boost the UK’s manufacturing performance. Their facilities help to move cutting-edge research from the UK’s world-leading universities into the commercial market, supporting companies to transform the products they sell, the way they make them and the skills of their workforce.

  • Medicines Discovery

    Medicines Discovery Catapult are reshaping the UK’s medicines discovery industry for patient benefit. By industrialising and driving the adoption of new tools and technologies for the sector, Medicines Discovery Catapult help accelerate the adoption of modern techniques for discovering medicines. They support SMEs and innovators to deliver growth for the drug discovery economy and tackle industry led challenges that limit today’s discovery process.

  • Offshore Renewable Energy

    Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult are the UK’s leading technology innovation and research centre for offshore renewable energy. Their unique facilities, research and engineering capabilities play a key role in delivering the UK’s net zero targets by accelerating the creation and growth of UK companies in the offshore renewable energy sector; bringing together industry and academia to drive innovation in renewable energy.

  • Satellite Applications

    Satellite Applications Catapult is at the heart of the satellite services revolution, driving take-up of space technology and applications to shape, and sustain, the world of tomorrow. Driven by how their actions help large and small organisations, Satellite Applications Catapult helps to bring new services to market. Their facilities, expertise and convening power connects industry and academia to get new research off the ground and into the market more quickly.

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    What we do

    Catapults are physical centres with cutting-edge R&D infrastructures including hubs, laboratories, testbeds, factories and offices, as well as technical experts that prove and adopt breakthrough products, processes, services and technologies. 

    Catapults work with thousands of innovative businesses across a wide range of sectors, such as manufacturing, space, health, digital, energy, transport, telecoms, the urban environment and many others. 

    The very best of the UK’s businesses, scientists, technical specialists and engineers work side by side on late-stage research and development, helping industry get high potential ideas to market, fuelling business growth, and increasing productivity.

    By bridging the gap between research and industry, the Catapult Network is helping tackle the biggest challenges that society and industries face today. Through their knowledge, infrastructure and collaborations, Catapults make today’s industries more productive and create the markets of tomorrow.