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If you are like me the start of UK winter may fill you with slight dread. As I head into my second UK winter this dread is exacerbated by my new, cold apartment which has a heating system (combi-heater) without …
In my Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund October blog I suggested to keep an eye out for the announcement of the second wave of challenges – and now that the Industrial Strategy white paper has been published I’m delighted to be …
I was working in the yachting industry when my team and I came up with ACT Blade’s big idea – using textile composites over traditional, heavier glass fibre. It was 2013 and the yachting industry was still suffering through the …
How does the idiom go? That fate is written in the stars? Any scientist would dispute this, but what you can get from looking to space for inspiration are real opportunities to monitor and predict future events on Earth.
The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise are for outstanding achievement by UK businesses in the categories of: innovation international trade sustainable development promoting opportunity through social mobility We are involved because the awards represent a great opportunity for the UK’s most …
Spotting the trends Horizon Scanning have become an essential activity for anyone whose business is impacted by technological advances. But how do you know what to look for? Like a stealthy enemy, disruptive technologies are only spotted when they have …
At Innovate 2017, I was pleased to be able to bring together a panel to discuss the conclusions from Innovate UK’s recent report on scale-ups: Scaling up: the investor perspective, which summarised the responses of interviews with 250 scale up …
The ability of machines to learn and solve problems like humans Artificial intelligence or AI for short, is already with us in many forms. It’s used by virtual assistants on personal devices, to deliver financial services, and it’s even being …
First, take a moment to think of someone you regard as productive. We all know at least one. It’s likely their productivity takes one of three forms. That’s fairly straight-forward though, as productivity is a measure of how much value …
Michael Faraday, born back in 1791, was an inspirational man in his time. The discoverer of electromagnetic induction, the principle behind the electric transformer and generator in 1831, he continues to be an inspiration to scientists, engineers and technicians. Faraday’s …
