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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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NetZero Technology Centre
Deadline: October 1, 2023
TechX Clean Energy Accelerator
TechX Clean Energy Accelerator is an intensive 15-week progr...TechX Clean Energy Accelerator is an intensive 15-week programme for 12 innovative clean energy start-ups with clear potential to accelerate the transition to an affordable net zero energy industry.
- CCUS and carbon removal solutions
- Low carbon hydrogen
- Alternative fuels and green chemicals
- Renewable power: offshore and onshore
- Digital solutions
- Decarbonised heat and cooling, & other
Touchstone Partners and Temasek Foundation
Deadline: October 15, 2023
Net Zero Challenge 2023
N0C is seeking impactful innovations to accelerate the pathw...N0C is seeking impactful innovations to accelerate the pathway towards net zero emissions. Solutions should have developed a minimal viable prototype, is scalable, and is suited for the Vietnam context.
Greenshot
Deadline: October 27, 2023
Accelerator Program
Greenshot is a 14-week accelerator that runs f...
Greenshot is a 14-week accelerator that runs from mid/late-January to April 2024. It culminates in a Demo Day in early May in front of top climate investors and venture capitalists in New York City. Participants will have a chance to compete for up to $75,000 in non-dilutive cash and prizes, selected by Greenshot’s expert Advisory Council. Partnering with Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business and CleanTech Open, Greenshot customizes program curriculum for climate solutions-focused entrepreneurs.
International Gas Union
Deadline: November 1, 2023
Global Cleantech Challenge
The International Gas Union (IGU) and IGRC2024 are pleased t...The International Gas Union (IGU) and IGRC2024 are pleased to collaborate with NGIF Industry Grants to announce the Global Cleantech Challenge.
The Challenge is a funding call to energy small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and startups from around the world with clean technology solutions to access grant funding, demonstration host partners, technology validation for product market fit and future energy customers in Canada.
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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Understanding your potential new partner's requirements, and even their language, will help you benefit from the process, manage your feedback and respond with useful information.
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