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Business Opportunities
We issue invitations to tender or requests for expressions of interest on this page. This includes opportunities to exploit the R&D we have developed. Click on the opportunities below for more information.
Westcott Business Incubation Centre
Open Call
Do you have a business idea that you would like to explore or develop? Are you looking at growing your start-up but aren’t sure how to take those next steps?
The Westcott Business Incubation Centre offers businesses support in a number of ways – providing facilities and expertise to incubatee companies, as well as research grants of up to £5,000. Various criteria apply in both cases, including your organisations’ strategic similarities to existing Westcott companies, the strength of your business case and the market potential of the resulting product.
Space Data Challenge
The Nuclear Decommissioning Space Data Challenge will encourage smaller businesses and university start-ups to research and develop satellite-enabled technologies that could help support the UK’s nuclear decommissioning efforts. The Space Data Challenge is looking for innovative new ideas that could support:
- Rooftop Inspections – remote sensing of difficult to access, potentially dangerous environments
- Building Site Plan Updates – regular and automated updates of building layouts
- Bulk Container identification – using satellite imagery to count containers and monitor them
- On-site Traffic Management – identifying vehicles on sites and where they are parked
The winning concept or prototype will receive specialist space and business development support worth £10,000 from the Satellite Applications Catapult, sponsored by the NDA, to help the product to market.
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