Imperial hosted Bill Gates and UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak for the launch of a new initiative to supercharge UK cleantech innovation.
Cleantech for UK, which brings together a coalition of investors and venture-builders with combined funds of over £4 billion, will accelerate the translation of the UK’s scientific research into world-leading cleantech scale-ups.
Imperial College London’s cleantech initiative, Undaunted, is a founding member of Cleantech for UK, which will connect the UK’s policy-making community with those creating, incubating, investing in and scaling cleantech companies.
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak joined Bill Gates – founder of Breakthrough Energy – at Imperial College London on Wednesday 15 February to launch Cleantech for UK, alongside Imperial’s President Hugh Brady and Vice Provost (Research and Enterprise) Professor Mary Ryan.
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak MP said: “Investing in renewables and clean tech is one of the best ways to strengthen our energy security, create better-paid jobs and grow the economy.
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