SDG 9: Industry, innovation and infrastructure

Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation

Discover more about our efforts in tackling this SDG through our research, education and operational activity.

All Sustainable Development Goals

Explore our activity

Latest SDG 9 news and activity

Dr Sarah Beardsley

National Space Lab-lead brings her mission-delivery capability to Surrey Space Institute

29 July 2026

Dr Birgit Altrichter, Lecturer in Digital Economy within the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Discipline at Surrey Business School (SBS), presenting at the International Conference on AI and the Digital Economy, held in Venice, Italy

Unintended consequences of AI and ethical considerations

6 July 2026

The Australian desert showing the growing light pollution caused by artificial satellites

Astrophysicists show how the world’s darkest coating could protect the night sky from satellite light pollution

6 July 2026

Business woman and man

Why are thousands of over-50s missing from the workforce? New Surrey project aims to find out

2 July 2026

w_f_h

New EU platform shows how remote work is changing where Europeans live

1 July 2026

SDG 9 research projects

Towards User-intent aware Multimodal Retrieval

Principal investigator: Dr Diptesh Kanojia

Start date: April 2025

End date: March 2027