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Measuring national innovation strengths: not such a clear picture
Is the UK’s innovation capacity and capability strengthening or weakening?
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What will cars be like in the future?
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 …
Predictions - Future of the City
Do you ever wonder what cities will be like in the next few decades?
Upscale to scale-up
33 of the UK’s most promising tech companies have been inducted into the Upscale programme run by Tech City UK, an organisation working to accelerate the growth of the UK’s digital economy. Upscale is a six-month programme to help the …
Meet our infocus ambassadors - Maggie Philbin
The birth of TeenTech TeenTech was born in the Reading branch of Carluccio’s in 2007, when a friend told me he’d just advertised for a chemical engineer and out of over 300 applications, three came from Europe and none from …
Starting up and scaling up
We heard from the Prime Minister in her speech to the CBI that she wants to turn the UK’s bright start-ups into successful scale-ups by backing them for the long term. 2016 Scale Up Club This week has seen the launch …
Academic innovation can drive economic growth
I was delighted to see the annual Innovate 2016 conference coming to the North last week. It showcased national excellence in key industrial sectors – and included great examples of Northern businesses and universities innovating together. The N8 Research Partnership – …
The need for connections in innovation
Innovation is risky, but failure to innovate can be worse. Companies who commit to innovation have higher productivity, grow twice as fast, and have higher exports than those who don’t. They have a much better chance of handling sudden market …
Listening to faint whispers from the future
Prediction is difficult, especially of the future. A quote so useful that it has been linked to everyone from Yogi Berra to Niels Bohr. Yes prediction is difficult, but when we innovate it is essential. We are thinking not only …
Increasing economic impact from the research base
Innovate UK is focused on driving business growth – no surprise then that the majority of our funding (~80%) is directed towards companies. The remaining 20%, still a significant sum, goes into the UK research base – providing support to …