In 2016, San Diego established its Blue Economy Incubator to assist in the creation, development and scaling of new water-dependent business ventures on San Diego Bay focusing on sustainable aquaculture and related blue technologies. It’s ocean tech industries and related economic activity comprise one of the most unique regional economies in the world with businesses […]
GBIP in Canada (Ontario): Autonomous Vehicles Why Canada? For more than 100 years, Ontario has been a leading automotive manufacturing and supply jurisdiction. In 2018, Ontario was the second-largest assembler in North America, building two million vehicles. By harnessing Ontario’s automotive, manufacturing, technology, and mining clusters — including a regional network of technology development sites, leading industry […]
Team Resolute selected as Preferred Bidder to deliver naval support ships Highly capable team includes BMT, Harland & Wolff and Navantia UK Plans to bolster UK shipbuilding and deliver on National Shipbuilding Strategy Refresh The Ministry of Defence has selected a preferred bidder to build support ships for the Royal Navy, with a […]
The South West Aquaculture Network (SWAN) was established three years ago to support the work of Maritime UK South West in the Blue Economy sector. The Network now has over 150 members across the UK. SWAN is seeking applications for the role of secretariat/vice chair to commence in January 2023. This is a voluntary position […]
As part of our network, we are delighted to introduce you to Carbon Thirteen – The Venture Builder for the Climate Emergency. Carbon13’s Venture Builder will support over 1000 entrepreneurs to build 200 startups by 2024, with the collective potential to reduce emissions by 400 million tonnes of CO2e per year. Founders use their Venture […]
Representatives from across the region’s maritime industry gathered at City College Plymouth on Monday to renew commitments to work together for the sake of the region and beyond. At a special dinner to mark the start of Maritime UK Week, military and industry leaders, academics, College staff and local authority representatives listened intently to a […]
Innovate UK’s Global Incubator Programme, delivered in partnership with Innovate UK EDGE, is an acceleration programme for up to 8 innovative high growth and scaling businesses to work with a world-leading incubator in Canada building long-term relationships and foundations to accelerate future market growth. We would welcome applications from innovative companies in the ocean sector […]
A group of leading international ports are collaborating through the UK’s 2050 Maritime Innovation Hub to launch a Maritime Data Cluster aimed at accelerating the green smart port revolution. The first of its kind, the Maritime Data Cluster has been created to facilitate sharing of non-commercial data between ports to achieve collective, workable solutions for […]
Following on from the successful launch of Smart Sound Connect earlier this year, today marks the opening of a state-of-the-art control centre for the network to further enhance the support provided to industry as part of the Smart Sound testing and proving ground based in and around Plymouth Sound. The network was recently recognised by […]
The Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult’s Floating Offshore Wind Centre of Excellence (FOW CoE) is launching two new strategic programmes, which mark the start of a new phase in its development. The two programmes, launched at Floating Offshore Wind 2022 in Aberdeen, will accelerate the development and qualification of critical floating wind technologies. They […]