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The Innovation Challenge Hub
WHERE CLEANTECH ENTREPRENEURS MEET OPPORTUNITIES
What Will You Do Next?
Looking to develop, pilot, or scale your innovation? Take advantage of the myriad of opportunities provided by Innovation Challenges for which corporates, investors, accelerators, and governments are recruiting.
Cleantech Group helps innovators by sharing live (and expired) challenges that have captured our attention from our daily work engaging with the global cleantech ecosystem. The Innovation Challenge Hub is a useful resource to keep coming back to.
Cleantech Group is an active partner on these challenges:
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Innovation Challenges
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Greentown Labs, Browning the Green Space
Deadline: January 7, 2025
Advancing Climatetech and Clean Energy Leaders (ACCEL) 2025
Green...
Greentown Labs and Browning the Green Space are requesting applications from innovative startups with founding and executive teams that are primarily made up of BIPOC leaders who are developing climate solutions for sectors including agriculture, buildings, electricity, manufacturing, resilience and adaptation, and transportation.
CapitaLand
Deadline: January 13, 2025
CapitaLand Sustainability X Challenge 4th Edition
The CapitaLand Sustainability X Ch...
The CapitaLand Sustainability X Challenge (CSXC) is Asia’s premier global platform to advance innovation and collaboration in sustainability within the urban environment. Through the CSXC, CapitaLand aims to source for emerging solutions/technologies globally to solve sustainability challenges impacting urban development.
Temasek Foundation
Deadline: February 9, 2025
The Liveability Challenge
The Liveability Challenge, Asia’s leading platform for susta...The Liveability Challenge, Asia’s leading platform for sustainability solutions have launched a search all over the globe for game-changing innovations that will reshape the future of our planet. Presented by Temasek Foundation and organised by Eco-Business, The Liveability Challenge (TLC) is a groundbreaking initiative aimed at accelerating sustainable development transformation and driving measurable impact, offering $2 million in funding.
Innovate UK
Deadline: March 1, 2025
Faraday Battery Challenge
The Faraday Battery Challenge will support UK registered Sma...The Faraday Battery Challenge will support UK registered Small, Micro and Medium-sized, businesses only to apply for a share of up to £1.5 million to increase and facilitate their engagement with the UK Battery Industrialisation Centre. An extension was granted in 2022, so that the challenge now ends in March 2025.
Sustainable Ventures
Ongoing
Innovation Challenge: Lambeth
Sustainable Ventures is launching a competition to help SMES...Sustainable Ventures is launching a competition to help SMES & Established Businesses solve their net zero challenges and Innovators scale their solutions particularly in low carbon buildings, waste management, behavior change, and low carbon mobility.
Imagine H2O Asia
Ongoing
Pilot Funding & Scale Up Support
Asia-Pacific water challenges that are addressed by entrepre...Asia-Pacific water challenges that are addressed by entrepreneurs receive pilot funding and scale up support with partners.
Plug-and-Play
Ongoing
Mobility Accelerator
Autonomous vehicles, connectivity, electrification, smart ci...Autonomous vehicles, connectivity, electrification, smart cities.
Rolling applications year round. Stage-agnostic.
EcoLabs
Ongoing
EcoLabs-Continental Urban Mobility Accelerator
Spanning urban mobility, electrification, energy efficiency,...Spanning urban mobility, electrification, energy efficiency, and sustainable transport.
Open to applicants in all regions/continents.
EVA
Ongoing
Electric Vehicle Accelerator
Charging infrastructure, EV fleets, services supporting elec...Charging infrastructure, EV fleets, services supporting electric mobility.
Announced in April 2022. Open to companies located beyond Singapore.
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