It’s always good to be excited about your work, and as David Wilkes and I noted earlier this year, the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund has certainly created a lot of excitement - about the opportunities for UK businesses and the …
Innovate UK’s mission is to stimulate and accelerate economic growth for the UK. To deliver this, we: address market failures in the areas we operate build on those areas of strength in the UK work across Government and research organisations …
Are robots really on the rise and threatening to take over? Some people will have you believe that robots will replace huge numbers of traditional jobs currently done by humans over the next few decades. That we’ll effectively be made …
According to the Annual Fraud Indicator 2016 fraud is estimated at £127bn a year and Innovate UK is not exempt to those who wish to obtain money by de-frauding the organisation. This has a negative effect on our ability to …
In the coming weeks, you will notice that it’s much quieter than usual on this blog and all the other blogs run by government departments and agencies. This is because between midnight on Friday, 21 April 2017 and the general …
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 …
As part of our Game changers series we meet Dr Sam Chapman, who is on a journey to make the world of car insurance fairer using telematics and big data. Sam’s Sheffield-based company, The Floow, is spearheading the move into …
A few days ago, I spoke at the FT’s Brexit and Beyond event, to talk about the opportunities for economic growth in the UK. The UK has an absolutely fantastic reputation for excellent science
Do you ever wonder what cities will be like in the next few decades?
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 …
Innovate UK significantly increases the economic performance of UK companies New analysis published last week has provided some of the strongest evidence yet that innovation support from Innovate UK significantly increases the economic performance of companies, in terms of those …
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