Born the son of a coal miner in South Yorkshire in the '60s, I grew up in a region then dominated by deep mining and heavy industry.
I sometimes comment that I was the “son of a Panda” but of course that was the coal dust around my father’s eyes.
Four years ago, we launched the Government and UKRI’s flagship, business-led Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund. It is a new approach to funding challenges ranging from net zero, health and wellbeing through to advancing technologies, aiming to create a better world for us all.
Trusted Research is a campaign to raise awareness of the risks to research collaborations which may occur when working with organisations or research partners with links to nations whose democratic and ethical values are different from our own.
Sarah Connolly, Innovation Technologist at Innovate UK is responsible for driving innovation in the Foundation Industries. In this post, she explores how innovations in sensor development, deployment and digitalisation can increase process efficiency, reduce environmental impact and improve competitiveness. Sensor …
Sarah Connolly, Innovation Technologist at Innovate UK is responsible for driving innovation in the foundation industries. In this post, she explores how innovation in heat recovery can reduce environmental impact and improve competitiveness. Heat recovery The foundation industries encompass a …
It takes courage, from multiple perspectives Initiating something new, particularly in the midst of change, at the local, national and global levels, takes courage. I would also argue that truly sustainable change happens when we bring multiple perspectives, disciplines and …
This blog explores how innovation in waste utilisation and symbiosis can reduce environmental impact and improve competitiveness.
My name is Sarah Connolly and it is my job within Innovate UK to drive innovation in the Foundation Industries. As part of the Clean Growth Grand Challenge within the government’s Industrial Strategy, the Transforming Foundation Industries Challenge aims to …
Solverboard published its first Innovation Blockers Report in December 2019. The report focused on five of the most common challenges businesses face when trying to innovate. Three months after our first report the Covid-19 pandemic brought the world to a …
Amidst the Covid-19 health emergency, the likes of which no one had faced before, the UK population adapted and responded to a fast-moving situation. In March 2020, the UK government imposed a stay at home order, banning all non-essential travel …
The need for geospatial intelligence has never been so great. Today’s global challenges are reinforcing a growing requirement for precise location information and situational awareness insight about assets, resources, vehicles and people. This is for economic reasons as well as environmental and societal.
