GBIP’s provide innovative businesses with the opportunity to grow and build international partnerships in specific sectors, through intensive support by an Innovation and Growth Specialist. Up to 15 innovative companies are supported during each GBIP.
Singapore: Net Zero
Application deadline: Sunday 16th April 2023
Pre-visit workshop: W/C 8th May 2023 and W/C 22nd May 2023
Market Visit: 5th – 9th June 2023
Post-visit Workshop: Q3 2023
An advanced digital economy consistently ranked as one of the world’s most innovative cities, Singapore can serve as a gateway to Asia due to its high GDP per capita, healthcare, transport, infrastructure quality and technology adoption, plus an attractive tax system, a familiar legal framework, and the ease of doing business in English.
The key sector focus areas are:
- Energy storage technologies and materials
- Sustainable heating and cooling
- Net Zero transportation and mobility
- Circular resource management
- Enhancing ecosystem services
- Green/Blue infrastructure provision
- Novel Supply Chain management and construction systems
- Smart Urban infrastructure planning
- Citizen engagement and behaviour change
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Canada: Ocean Technology
Application deadline: 23rd April 2023
Pre-visit workshop: 22nd May 2023
Market Visit: 11th- 17th June 2023
Exploitation workshop: 21st September 2023
Canada has become a world leader in engineering products and services suited to extreme harsh ocean environments, marine remote sensing technologies, and ocean observing systems. More than half of Canada’s $30bn ocean economy is anchored in Atlantic Canada, including the key province of Nova Scotia.
This initiative is particularly relevant for businesses in:
- Aquaculture
- Fisheries
- Marine Energy
- Marine Environmental Monitoring
- Marine Net Zero
- Marine Observations
- Marine Robotics
- Marine Transportation
- Ocean Plastics
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