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Innovate with HS2

HS2 will be a world class 21st century rail service, embracing new technologies to ensure world class levels of reliability, comfort and customer experience.

Serendip - Innovation Birmingham

Innovate at HS2
business support
business support
HS2
HS2

A legacy of knowledge, expertise and commercial opportunity

HS2 will drive innovation in the design and build, employing new technologies and techniques to improve productivity, innovating to do more with less and create fewer emissions and noise. We will build a legacy of knowledge, expertise and new commercial opportunities for the UK.

Innovate@HS2, HS2’s accelerator programme in collaboration with Connected Places Catapult and Bruntwood SciTech will help achieve this vision. Two cohorts of five small companies per year, will have the opportunity to work with HS2 to develop new innovative digital products and services that can help leave a legacy of new ways of working and best practice.

HS2

What’s on offer to SMEs

HS2

Accelerator goals

Eligibility criteria

  •  Applicants must be SMEs (less than 250 employees & turnover under £50 million)

  •  Applicants must have a UK registered company address 

  •  Proposed solutions must include a digital development

  •  Proposed solutions must address at least one of the live challenges

  •  Each application must propose one solution

  •  Applicants can apply more than once if they have more than one solution to offer