Our Emerging and Enabling Technologies team’s core purpose is to connect innovators with new partners and to develop new opportunities in a collaborative effort. The team is dedicated to identifying and supporting the development of cutting-edge, cross-sector technologies that have the potential to transform the UK’s economy and society. Embracing a broad range of technologies that represent a step change from those that already exist, the team is passionate about staying at the forefront of innovation and constantly exploring the horizon looking for the latest breakthroughs and trends, future scoping to create space for emerging and enabling technologies in the relevant market ecosystems and landscapes.

We work closely with businesses, academia, policy makers, regulators, and other innovation partners to provide expertise, connections to help turn game-changing ideas into successful commercial products and services, and access to funding and investment opportunities.

Purpose of the Role

The Knowledge Transfer Manager – Emerging and Enabling Technologieswill lead projects and activities relating to emergingLife Science and Biotech opportunities. The scope of this role can include, but is not limited to neurotechnology, human augmentation, bacteriophage technology and in silico medicine. Part of the role will involve scouting for, and assessing, new technologies.

Working across Innovate UK Business Connect teams and key stakeholder groups, the successful candidate will design and lead a programme of activity that will accelerate the development and uptake of emerging life science and biotech opportunities, in particular where there is convergence with “deeptech” such as quantum and AI.

In alignment with Innovate UK Business Connect’s strategy, the candidate will be expected to support the acceleration of innovation through engaging with academia, industry and relevant stakeholder groups, building their networks of innovators, creating diverse connections to drive positive change, not just in terms of economic prosperity but also through sustainable societal and environmental benefits.