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The power of the crowd: female-led innovative businesses on networking

Posted by: Innovate UK admin, Posted on: 19 June 2019 - Categories: diversity & inclusion, Enterprise Europe Network, Global business opportunities, women in innovation

International networking formed a key element of a recent trip to Israel with 18 women-led businesses on a Global Business Innovation Programme (GBIP) mission to forge partnerships and develop connections between companies working globally in Artificial Intelligence. We caught up with 7 of the mission attendees to find out more about how networking can impact innovative businesses, and how to maximise networking opportunities.

Research post-graduates can’t help my business – or can they?

Posted by: Innovate UK admin, Posted on: 3 May 2019 - Categories: Knowledge Transfer Partnership

A successful business needs to put ideas to good use to generate growth. If you have a significant problem holding back your innovation, a KTP can pair you up with someone who might just be the solution.

Working towards autonomous underwater vehicles

Posted by: Innovate UK admin, Posted on: 4 January 2019 - Categories: energy, Industrial strategy challenge fund, Robotics & autonomous systems

It’s an exciting time for UK robotics, specifically in the area that our company, Rovco, specialises in (subsea services) as we work towards autonomous underwater vehicle systems. These technical developments will help complete the difficult and dangerous task of seabed …

Predictions - The future of robotics

Posted by: Innovate UK admin, Posted on: 30 May 2018 - Categories: Extreme Robotics, Future of Mobility, Future predictions, Industrial strategy challenge fund, Transforming Food Production

In the future, robots with artificial intelligence will help make life easier for all of us – doing our dull, dirty, difficult jobs, and tackling tasks we simply couldn’t do ourselves. One of the key areas where we’ll look …

Predictions – The future of food

Posted by: Innovate UK admin, Posted on: 23 May 2018 - Categories: Agri productivity, agriculture & food, Future predictions, Industrial strategy challenge fund

With the world’s population set to reach nearly 10bn by 2050, we are already looking to technology to help ensure future food production is more efficient, environmentally friendly and affordable.

The innovation podcast: Robotics and AI in extreme environments

Posted by: Innovate UK admin, Posted on: 18 May 2018 - Categories: corporate, Extreme Robotics, Industrial strategy challenge fund, Robotics & autonomous systems

The first in our series of Innovate UK podcasts looks at robotics and AI in extreme environments. The increasing amount of work that needs to be done in extreme environments like deep mining, nuclear decommissioning and offshore energy means there …

Meet Dr Ian Campbell, our new Interim Executive Chair

Posted by: Innovate UK admin, Posted on: 8 May 2018 - Categories: corporate

Would you say it is an interesting time to take over as Interim Executive Chair at Innovate UK? Absolutely. We’re just into the second month of being in the new UK Research and Innovation family and we are in the …

Predictions – The future of energy

Posted by: Innovate UK admin, Posted on: 6 March 2018 - Categories: Clean Growth, energy, Energy Revolution, Future predictions

The energy system of the future won’t look like today’s. The scale of change over the next 10 to 20 years will be considerable and, while we don’t know exactly what this change will look like, we do know some …

Essential tips for cyber security

Posted by: Innovate UK admin, Posted on: 5 March 2018 - Categories: Business advice, Cyber security

Cyber crime is costing UK businesses an estimated £30 billion every year, and rising. Cyber breaches can have devastating effects, and could even lead to the closure of your business. It's never been more important to make cyber security a …

Developing new, life-changing treatments for patients - Autolus

Posted by: Innovate UK admin, Posted on: 19 February 2018 - Categories: Health and life sciences

Developing new medicines is a necessarily long and arduous process. New therapies such as T-cell therapies are now transforming the development of cancer treatment, with the potential to offer a cure by breaking down, attacking and killing cancer cells, says …