Sustainable plastics research trends: New solutions to the plastic crisis from a mobilised academia-industry ecosystem

This white paper aims to provide a birds-eye view of our campaign that aimed to bring the academia-industry community together to generate new solutions to the global plastics crisis. It also aims to encapsulate whether any data insights corroborate the points made by the panellists during our Virtual Series through a data-led approach, focussing on metrics around industry engagement (technology views and interactions), technology categories and primary applications, and geographical data. 

This white paper includes:

  • Top sustainable plastic innovations trending with industry
  • Best practices around establishing and maintaining university-industry collaborations around sustainability
  • A geographical overview of the universities and companies that engaged the most

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About the authors

Jake Mitchell

Jake is the IN-PART Digital Marketing Manager, having joined the team in April, 2021. He graduated from the University of Sheffield in 2018 after studying English Language and Linguistics. 


About IN-PART:

We believe brilliant connections can solve real-world problems. We match research pioneers from academia with decision-makers in industry sectors striving for a greater positive impact.

Our goal is to enable connections from around the world to match academic research with industry on a level playing field. Through our intelligent, matchmaking platform we showcase leading university innovations and connect academics with an international community of decision-makers in industry, creating meaningful dialogue and partnership.

IN-PART, a digital partnering platform for university-industry collaboration.

250+ universities and research institutes around the world currently showcase their research and innovation on IN-PART to find new collaboration partners in industry. R&D teams get free access to the platform (create an account here). There are no hidden costs and we don’t claim downstream success fees.

Discover, a bespoke scouting service for open innovation.

Through Discover, corporate R&D teams can leverage our extended academic network, which reaches multiple teams across 1,200+ universities and research institutes worldwide. In response to a specific research requirement or challenge, Discover enables R&D teams to identify new opportunities for commercialisation or to solicit proposals for new research

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