Collaborate To Innovate 2017 awards shortlist announced

Now in its second year, Collaborate To Innovate was established to uncover and celebrate great examples of engineering collaboration, with a particular focus on collaboration between businesses and the UK's world-leading academic research base.

For this year's competition, we invited entries across seven different categories covering key areas of technology development (Energy, Healthcare, Transport etc).

Shortlisted entries ranged from pioneering developments in healthcare technology, inspiring applications of technology to major civil projects, new ground-breaking energy schemes, and cutting-edge developments that are driving the future of connectivity and data. You can view the full shortlist here.

The judging panel for this year's awards - comprised of some of the UK's most respected engineers - praised a group of entries that illustrates the strong links between industry and academia, the role that engineering plays in addressing a broad range of societal challenges, and the high levels of innovation occurring across the UK (see below for quotes from the judges.)