Unlocking Space for Investment
Unlocking Space for Investment is an initiative, backed by the UK Space Agency, that aims to catalyse investment to support the growth of the UK space sector.
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TheUnlocking National Space Strategyfor setsInvestment (USI), an initiative backed by the ambitionUK Space Agency, aims to growcatalyse private sector investment to support the growth of the UK space economysector. throughThe catalysingprogramme addresses key barriers to investment through targeted interventions and championingstrategic thenetworking.
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Industry Questionnaire for Industry Support Programme
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Updated page copy, added Industry Questionnaire for Industry Support Programme section Unlocking Space for Investment: Programme overview - HTML attachment created 2024/25 Programme Delivery - new title for HTML attachment
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Link to Unlocking Space for Investment Network sign up form added. Updated Unlocking Space for Investment: Programme overview HTML
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Added information on Space Investment Pitch Day and Space Investment Day. Updated Privacy notice
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Updated privacy notice.
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Information about the Space Investment Day added to the Unlocking Space for Investment: Programme overview - HTML attachment.
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Changes made to content on the landing page. Updates made to the programme overview attachment. HTML and PDF versions of the '2024/25 Business and Investor Pathway Programme - Information' have been added as attachments.
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The Investor Pathway one-pager documents and the Business Pathway two-pager documents have been removed, as they have become outdated. The overview document has been removed and replace with a new document (programme overview) with up to date information. Content on the landing page has been updated.
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Updated with latest information.
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Update to section 3.1 of Unlocking Space for Investment - overview - HTML attachment. Applications have now closed to cohort 1, and have opened for cohort 2. Slight update to wording in section 3.2 to reflect the above.
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Slight wording changes to Unlocking Space for Investment - Business Pathway two-pager (PDF). Unlocking Space for Investment - Business Pathway two-pager - HTML version created to have accessible version of the PDF.
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Unlocking Space for Investment - Business Pathway two-pager (PDF) - file attachment added Unlocking Space for Investment - overview - HTML attachment updated Information on Business Pathway Programme added to landing page
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