Innovate UK has launched a funding competition to bring together UK businesses and Chinese partners to address some of the pressing urban challenges experienced in Guangdong province in China. The competition focuses in there key areas;

• Smart Mobility
• Smart Healthcare
• Smart Platforms

The City Council and the University of Bristol are drawing together a consortium to respond to this and would welcome approaches from businesses with innovative products or services which could be used to tackle some of these embedded problems in Guangdong.

More information on the call is available on the Innovate website. If you are interested in putting forward an innovative technology to use in this call please send a short email to the City Innovation team.