Aline Martins

Panels run by the UKRI Talent team; this includes schemes such as the Future Leaders Fellowships and Innovation Scholars. The schemes have the goal of guaranteeing that UKRI continues to grow the research and innovation community in the UK, ensuring the UK continues to attract and retain the most exceptional talent.

My role involved the management and delivery of KTN’s evolving international project portfolio. I am primarily focused on the delivery of Innovate UK’s Global Missions Programme. The £ 1 million programme aims at further enhancing Innovate UK’s global strategy by providing evidence for where the organisation should invest. Also, to facilitate opportunities for UK businesses to build partnerships and collaborations with key economies. The programme seeks to: • Gather market insight and build expert foresights on new and emerging innovation sectors • Build a portfolio of technological and business priorities • Explore and identify effective and sustainable collaboration models with partner countries in specific and growing sectors • Set up groundwork and early dialogues for UK businesses to catalyse internationalisation opportunities • Help innovation policy direction while unlocking regulatory barriers for future international partnerships

My role involves supporting the growth of high-growth potential SMEs in the advanced urban services market. I focus on establishing partnerships with SMEs and other stakeholders in the urban innovation ecosystem to engage in collaborative research & development projects. I also support SMEs in accessing international markets.

Future Cities Catapult was established to accelerate urban ideas to market, to grow the economy and make cities better. It brings together businesses, universities and city leaders so that they can work with each other to solve the problems that cities face. We help innovators turn ingenious ideas into working prototypes that can be tested in real urban settings. Then, once they’re proven, we help spread them to cities across the world to improve quality of life, strengthen economies and protect the environment. Our Cities Lab provides data analysis, modelling and visualisation capabilities to understand and elucidate city problems, while on-the-ground demonstrators in our network of collaborating cities provide opportunities for testing new approaches in-situ. Combined, they help us discover which new ideas can have the biggest impact on our urban environments. By bringing together the UK’s top architects, engineers, designers, academics and business professionals, we can help them transform cities on a global scale. We will strengthen the UK’s ability to turn excellent urban innovations into commercial reality.

M.Sc. International Public Policy