Innovate UK Endorsement — What It Means for Oceans Assured™
We are proud to announce that Oceans Assured™ has been endorsed by Innovate UK, the UK Government’s national innovation agency and a key driver of strategic, high-impact innovation with global relevance.
Innovate UK exists to identify, support and accelerate innovations that address major economic, environmental and societal challenges, helping proven concepts move rapidly from development into real-world deployment. As part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), Innovate UK plays a central role in connecting industry, government, academia and international partners to enable innovation at scale.
Their endorsement of Oceans Assured™ recognises both the urgency of the sustainability challenge facing the marine sector and the need for credible, fact-based frameworks that can be adopted quickly and consistently across international markets.
Supporting the Strategic Roll-Out of Oceans Assured™ — Phase One
Innovate UK’s involvement is focused on facilitating scale, speed and global alignment — ensuring Oceans Assured™ can be implemented rapidly where it matters most.
Strategic Partner Connectivity
Through Innovate UK’s international networks and innovation ecosystem, Oceans Assured™ is being connected with strategic global partners, enabling collaboration across borders and supporting early adoption in key marine markets. This ensures that Phase One is designed not as a local initiative, but as a globally applicable framework from the outset.
Aligning Innovation with Policy and Regulation
Innovate UK operates at the interface of innovation, regulation and policy. Their endorsement helps align Oceans Assured™ with the direction of travel in environmental regulation - including MARPOL Annex V and the forthcoming EU Green Claims Directive - ensuring the initiative supports compliance, transparency and long-term regulatory resilience.
Accelerating Adoption of Sustainability-Critical Solutions
Where sustainability is a strategic priority, speed matters. Innovate UK’s role is to help remove friction between innovation and implementation, enabling Oceans Assured™ to move faster from concept to industry adoption — particularly where environmental risk, reputational exposure and regulatory scrutiny are increasing.
Building a Scalable, Evidence-Led Platform
Innovate UK’s support reinforces the importance of robust technical foundations, data transparency and measurable impact. This directly underpins the Oceans Assured™ digital compliance platform, designed to provide open access to technical data, life-cycle information and vessel-level compliance tools — all critical for industry-wide trust and uptake.
Innovate UK’s endorsement positions Oceans Assured™ not as a niche sustainability project, but as a strategic initiative aligned with national and international environmental priorities.
As Phase One of Oceans Assured™ rolls out, Innovate UK’s role will be to help ensure the initiative reaches the right partners, in the right markets, at the right time — supporting rapid, credible adoption across the global marine industry.
