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Smart cities: how do the UK and South Korea compare?
South Korea is betting big on smart cities, and it’s showing up in the unlikeliest of places.
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Healthy Ageing - Trailblazers
The Healthy Ageing Challenge is now open for business and our Trailblazers competitions are now underway to deliver on the plan announced last month. This is a huge milestone – which we have only achieved thanks to the tremendous support received through our research and market engagement.
Should we be eating insects?
There’s a bit of a buzz around entomophagy (eating insects) at the moment.
In the last couple of weeks, you may have seen Bug Farm Foods open a UK first insect protein R&D lab in West Wales and launch VEXo, a meat alternative product made from insect and vegetable protein (featured on Good Morning Britain).
A ddylem ni fod yn bwyta bygiau?
Mae ychydig o gyffro ynghylch bwyta pryfed ar hyn o bryd.
Yn ystod yr ychydig wythnosau diwethaf, efallai eich bod wedi gweld Bug Farm Foods yn agor y labordy ymchwil a datblygu protein pryfed cyntaf yn y Deyrnas Unedig yng ngorllewin Cymru, a lansiad VEXo, cynnyrch efelychu cig wedi'i wneud o brotein planhigion a phryfed (ymddangosodd ar Good Morning Britain).
Making the most of our longer lives
We’re living longer than ever before. A lot longer.
A baby boy born in 1916 in England could have expected to live to about 58; a baby boy born in 2016 can expect to see his 90th birthday. The massive increases in life expectancy we’ve seen in recent years have major implications for all areas of public life – and provide a huge opportunity for businesses and social enterprises.
Electech: Enabling the digital future
For the first time we have a sector-wide view of those enabling technologies in the UK collectively called Electech. Our report maps the breadth of the sector’s capabilities and cross-cutting application potential.
It puts forward a vision for the Electech sector and highlights key pathways to realise it.
Will Autonomous Vehicles make our roads safer?
As we approach the Road Safety Forum 2019, to which I have been invited for a panel discussion, I expect to be asked this question... again. The answer I usually give is Yes and No - not because I am …
Speed limits - should autonomous vehicles obey them?
We are approaching the annual Low Carbon Vehicle (LCV) event, now the Connected Automated Mobility (CAM) event at Millbrook, which prompts me to consider the question of speed limits and autonomous vehicles.
Meet our Manufacturing, Materials and Mobility team
Meet our Manufacturing, Materials and Mobility sector team experts bringing together the areas of:
Manufacturing and Materials, High Value Manufacturing, Advanced Materials, Land Transport (Automotive, Connected Transport & Connected and Autonomous Vehicles, Rail), Aerospace and Electronics, Sensors and Photonics.
The business opportunity for Future Leaders Fellowships
UK Research and Innovation’s flagship fellowship scheme: Future Leaders Fellowships is open for applications from business. This is the first scheme we have run where business applicants can apply for fellowship funding. So how can your business benefit from the …