It’s always good to be excited about your work, and as David Wilkes and I noted earlier this year, the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund has certainly created a lot of excitement - about the opportunities for UK businesses and the …
I have run a lot of pitching events and they are always adrenaline fuelled and great fun – but are they value for money? They can be a great social event – with good food and wine and great conversations. …
My name is Roger Sumner-Rivers and I’m the founder and MD of the ParcelHero Group. 20 years ago I went to work for a same-day courier company as a sales person. Within 12 months I had doubled the size of …
The process of moving skills and new knowledge into companies, to drive economic impact, is inherently difficult. 69% of companies say that access to skills is a major problem. The most effective route for knowledge transfer to industry from academia …
It’s hard to believe that we are already into our third year of delivering Newton Fund activities. When I started as Newton Fund Programme Manager back in 2014, I was told that the job “might be a bit bumpy for …
Innovate UK’s mission is to stimulate and accelerate economic growth for the UK. To deliver this, we: address market failures in the areas we operate build on those areas of strength in the UK work across Government and research organisations …
Are robots really on the rise and threatening to take over? Some people will have you believe that robots will replace huge numbers of traditional jobs currently done by humans over the next few decades. That we’ll effectively be made …
According to the Annual Fraud Indicator 2016 fraud is estimated at £127bn a year and Innovate UK is not exempt to those who wish to obtain money by de-frauding the organisation. This has a negative effect on our ability to …
In the coming weeks, you will notice that it’s much quieter than usual on this blog and all the other blogs run by government departments and agencies. This is because between midnight on Friday, 21 April 2017 and the general …
Do you remember the film Total Recall, when Arnie jumps into a taxi driven by a robot called Johnny? Or how about the flying-through-time DeLorean from the Back to the Future movies? Science fiction, right? Well, although time travel isn’t …
As part of our Game changers series we meet Dr Sam Chapman, who is on a journey to make the world of car insurance fairer using telematics and big data. Sam’s Sheffield-based company, The Floow, is spearheading the move into …
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