Igniting Innovation in East London
ELUmination connects local challenges with global solutions, transforming how the East London Innovation Super Corridor (ELISC) discovers, validates, and scales breakthrough technologies.
Where Local Demand Meets Global Innovation
ELUmination is the innovation engine of the East London Innovation Super Corridor (ELISC), built in strategic partnership with Wazoku, who help turn scientific ideas and expert knowledge into real-world impact by connecting experts or businesses who can solve problems with organisations seeking breakthrough solutions.
We transform real operational challenges from anchor institutions—like London City Airport, ExCeL London, and Tate & Lyle Sugars—into targeted innovation briefs that reach a worldwide network of problem-solvers. The best solutions are then landed in East London for validation and scale.
This is demand-led innovation. Not waiting for solutions to appear, but actively seeking them.
A Smarter Path from Problem to Solution
Three-Step Process:
1. Challenge Definition
Our Innovation Scouts work directly with East London’s major anchor institutions to identify operational bottlenecks—from decarbonising waste streams to optimising energy grids. These become focused Innovation Briefs.
2. Global Discovery
Each brief is broadcast to a worldwide network of innovators, researchers, and SMEs through the Wazoku marketplace. We source best-in-class solutions from wherever they exist.
3. Local Validation
Winning solutions are brought to East London’s Demonstrator Labs at the Royal Docks Centre for Sustainability—where they’re tested against real-world conditions before full deployment.
Three Clusters. One Integrated System.
Clean Energy & Sustainable Infrastructure
The Physical Layer. We provide the testbed for net-zero technologies—from grid integration to circular economy materials—helping SMEs validate low-carbon solutions against real industrial loads.
Computational Futures & Applied AI
The Digital Layer. Specialising in safe AI deployment for public infrastructure, we offer a regulatory sandbox where AI solutions can be tested before they transform energy grids, supply chains, and public services.
Open Innovation
The Connective Tissue. ELUmination is the operating system that feeds challenges to the labs and connects East London’s needs with global capability.
Opening Doors to East London’s Innovation Ecosystem
Access to Demonstrator Labs
Test your technologies in world-class facilities including the London Renewable Energy Lab, the London Sustainable Material Lab, and the London Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Lab—all through a single entry point.
Fast-Track Contracting
Pre-agreed IP terms based on the Lambert Toolkit mean validated solutions can move from approval to lab access in weeks, not months.
Industry Connections
Connect with anchor corporations actively seeking solutions for net-zero, productivity, and operational efficiency challenges across aviation, events, manufacturing, and public services.
Talent Pipeline
Tap into UEL’s “Innovation through Impact” programme, where students are deployed as Junior Associates on live innovation challenges—giving your project immediate technical capacity.
“ELISC will possess the operational capability to convert funding into immediate, measurable economic impact from the start.”
ELISC
CEO
Wazoku is a deep tech innovation software and ecosystem company, helping organisations solve complex technical and scientific challenges and convert them into measurable outcomes. Wazoku orchestrates innovation by combining Wazoku.ai, its decision intelligence platform for managing innovation activity end to end, with Innocentive, a global ecosystem and marketplace. Wazoku enables faster, more confident innovation across AI, engineering, and scientific domains, helping organisations move from theatre to value.
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