Transforming construction
Imagine if you ordered a new car and it came in a series of deliveries and put together by a series of different workers on your driveway. They work from a sheet drawing and can’t tell you exactly when it …
Mike Pitts
Mike is the Interim Challenge Director - Transforming Construction.
Mike previously led on embedding sustainability across Innovate UK’s strategy and programmes since November 2012. He has also led Clean and Cool entrepreneur Missions in 2013 to Brazil and 2015 to San Francisco. Mike also ran the Resource Efficiency programme during 2013/14. Previously Mike spent five years driving sustainability-led innovation in the chemical industry with Chemistry Innovation.
The future of construction
Imagine if the schools we built as a nation helping pupils achieve better educational performance just from the way they were designed. What if UK homes were all built with integrated energy generation and storage meaning most people had zero …
Meet the Industrial Strategy Challenge Director - Transforming Construction
What Industrial Strategy Challenge am I leading? I am the interim Challenge Director for Transforming Construction, which seeks to change the way we deliver the buildings the UK needs. We want to provide places to live and learn that are …
Predictions - Future of the City
Do you ever wonder what cities will be like in the next few decades?
Trial tomorrow’s technology today
Imagine a world where… Imagine a world where food orders are securely delivered direct to your car boot while you work. Or maybe you’ve given up on owning a car and use a car club which is all electric and …
Sustainable development and Innovate UK
Sustainable development is at the heart of Innovate UK’s strategy and purpose. At Innovate UK we think about the future and what a future economy will look like. A sustainable economy is one that delivers growth while operating within safe …
We need trust to innovate
The last few months have seen much debate about public trust in experts, or rather a lack of it. So who do you trust to provide you with a solution to your problems? Trust is critical to innovation and a …
Urban Living - a major collaboration with the research councils
You may be aware of the Higher Education and Research bill currently making its way through Parliament. This (amongst other things) looks to implement the recommendations made by Paul Nurse in his review of the research and innovation landscape. For …
Pitch like a superhero
All movies have the same basic plot structure. That was a theory in a 2004 book called The Seven Basic Plots. This might now ruin the cinema experience for you, so sorry about that. Personally I can see this reductionist …
The art of the possible
If you don’t have a market, you don’t have an innovation. This was something learnt through experience in industry. It doesn’t matter how clever your technology or idea is, without someone willing to pay for it you just have a …