clean futures
Commercial Investment Hub
Supporting the commercialisation of your technological innovations
The Commercial Investment Hub is an innovation framework designed to accelerate the commercialisation of rail and transport innovations through a 3-way partnership model that unites Industry, Innovators, and Investors.
By bringing these three critical players together, the Hub doesn’t just speed up individual innovation cycles – it synchronises them, ensuring that solutions are developed, funded, and adopted in parallel. This approach eliminates traditional barriers, shortens time-to-market, and maximises success rates for transformative projects.
The Hub is being piloted as part of the current Clean Futures Programme, focusing on overcoming challenges for high-TRL (Technology Readiness Level) solutions and improving speed-to-market. Outcomes will be assessed through secured investments and contracts, the impact on the innovation cycle, and the potential for scalability in future industry adoption.
Findings from the pilot will be used to refine the model for its broader use.
commercial investment hub
HOW IT WORKS
- Industry identifies real-world challenges and serves as the ‘route to market,’ committing to adopt and integrate successful innovations.
- Innovators create targeted solutions, refining their products with industry guidance to ensure they meet market needs.
- Investors provide the capital needed to scale these solutions, reducing risk by backing projects that already have industry validation and demand.
KEY BENEFITS
- Accelerated Commercialisation: With all parties working in synergy, innovations move from concept to market readiness faster than traditional models.
- De-risked Investment Opportunities: Investors gain confidence from an aligned ecosystem where both need, and adoption are pre-validated.
- Synergistic Collaboration: The integrated model promotes strong partnerships, ensuring that industry, innovators, and investors are all strategically aligned and mutually invested in the success of each project.
PARTICIPANTS
We welcome participants to the Clean Futures Commercial Investment Hub pilot from across the 3-way partnership model. Please get in touch for more information.
Innovators
The pilot is primarily focused on our Clean Futures Accelerator participants, however, if you are an SME or other accelerator looking for similar support, please click ‘Join the Pilot Test’ and we can discuss funding options
Industry Partners
If your organisation is facing decarbonisation challenges and can serve as a route to market by adopting and integrating solutions developed through the Clean Futures Accelerator programme, please click ‘Join the Pilot Test’
Investors
If you can provide the capital required to scale innovations and are seeking opportunities that already have industry validation and market demand, please click ‘Join the Pilot Test’
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