Fast-track your sustainable innovation
Connect and collaborate with leading startups and scaleups
to solve your sustainable material innovation challenges.
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how we help
We take your sustainable innovation challenges and introduce you to the startups and SMEs that can solve them.
Explore the solutions you didn't know existed and meet face to face with a group of industry change makers and innovators under one roof on one day.
HOW WE CREATE IMPACT
The Better World Collective activates collaborative partnerships through Innovation Summits designed to accelerate sustainable materials innovation. Innovation Summits focus on industries from plastics to textiles, farming and food to retail, construction and more.
Bespoke scouting
In depth, bespoke scouting for corporate partners to find solutions tailored to your sustainability challenges.
Connect with startups
Meet with multiple relevant innovators face to face in one day, under one roof.
Exchange ideas
Exchange ideas, and get inspired with the startups and other corporate partners in the room.
Build partnerships
Build relevant, valuable and long-lasting collaborative partnerships with the innovators changing your industry.
1. We curate a small group of non-competing, industry leading brands to take part in the Innovation Summit.
2. Our team work with you to draw out specific innovation challenges and opportunities and write these up in to a brief for startups, scaleups and academics working on relevant solutions.
3. A robust recruitment process takes place to select the most promising startups and scaleups with compelling products and services that fit one or more of the challenges set.
4. You will then join the other leading brands, the selected innovators and other industry partners at the Innovation Summit, to learn, share knowledge and explore collaboration.
WHY work with us
The Better World Collective is an initiative powered by Plus X and their growing network of innovation hubs across the UK.
With over 100 years shared experience working with leading brands to deliver innovation programmes, and access to the largest network of innovators and startups in the UK, our team is well equipped to meet any innovation challenge you have.
our mission
From our homes, offices, shops, factories, cars, clothes, products and packaging - every part of our economy and lives is made up of materials ripe for reinvention.
Bringing together start ups, corporates and universities to change the world through sustainable material innovation
WHAT WE DO
The Better World Collective supports you to unlock the potential to fast-track your sustainable innovation.
Whether you’re a corporate seeking to move the needle on your sustainability efforts, a next-gen startup looking for world-class support or an academic or policymaker scoping out research projects.
OUR INNOVATIONS
From bio plastics made from potato waste to the world’s most advanced purification membrane built on nanotechnology – as part of the Better World Collective you will discover the innovations changing the world for the better.
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We're looking for
Sustainable
Material Innovators
We’re looking for Entrepreneurs and academics creating revolutionary new materials and circular economy solutions
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Changers
Are you a corporate passionate about sustainability and looking to champion innovation?
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Learn from those at the cutting edge of innovation and amplify your sustainability mission with the collective.
register interestBiophilica
Our most recent graduate of the hardware accelerator programme, female CEO Mira Nameth has created a green leather, using 0.006% of the water in leather production.
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Chip[s] board
In 2019, while being on our accelerator programme, Chip[s]board formed a perfect partnership, with McCain, that supply raw materials (potato waste) for product production.
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Mimica Touch
Mimica Touch is a temperature-sensitive indicator cap or label for food freshness. It helps you store your food at the right temperature showing you when your food actually spoils.
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Aceleron
Aceleron is a clean technology company combating unnecessary battery waste, designing the world’s most sustainable lithium battery packs with a full circular economy approach
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Biohm
Biohm came through our CRL Accelerator with the goal of creating materials from waste. Biohm is now a leading pioneer in the research of bio-based materials.
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Marinatex
A better world collective has connected me with three corporate partners that helped me realise a more sustainable supply chain!
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Transforming industries
From our homes, offices, shops, factories, cars, clothes, products and packaging - every part of our economy and lives is made up of materials ripe for reinvention.
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Retails
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We discover best sustainable material innovators and connect them with partners who can help them develop, test, pilot, commercialise and scale their inventions. Our activities involve curated events, themed summits, technical team workshops and wider support utilising world-leading innovation expertise.
The Better World Collective Summits inspire change through the power of collaboration deep-diving into areas like Packaging, Circular Fashion, and Smart Cities.
Each year we identify the top 100 sustainable material innovator sand release a report to our network – these startups will be immersed in BetterWorld Collective activity.
Two-day workshops running twice a year supporting corporates to prepare for open innovation and startups to prepare for corporate collaboration and investment.
Our toolkit equips your team with the tools and resources needed to take on an innovation project with success so you can take ownership of your sustainability.
our sustainable material innovators
Our most recent graduate of the hardware accelerator programme, female CEO Mira Nameth has created a green leather, using 0.006% of the water in leather production.
Learn more about
Biophilica
our sustainable material innovators
In 2019, while being on our accelerator programme, Chip[s]board formed a perfect partnership, with McCain, that supply raw materials (potato waste) for product production.
Learn more about
Chip[s] board
our sustainable material innovators
Mimica Touch is a temperature-sensitive indicator cap or label for food freshness. It helps you store your food at the right temperature showing you when your food actually spoils.
Learn more about
Mimica Touch
our sustainable material innovators
Aceleron is a clean technology company combating unnecessary battery waste, designing the world’s most sustainable lithium battery packs with a full circular economy approach
our sustainable material innovators
Biohm came through our CRL Accelerator with the goal of creating materials from waste. Biohm is now a leading pioneer in the research of bio-based materials.
our sustainable material innovators
A better world collective has connected me with three corporate partners that helped me realise a more sustainable supply chain!
Learn more about
Marinatex
