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 …
As 2016 ends, we are looking forward to an exciting New Year at the Medicines Discovery Catapult (MDC).
There are so many things to highlight in this, my final blog post of 2016, reflecting on a year in the life of Innovate UK. Here are just a few of my ‘best bits’ of the past year.
Your task is to make the UK the most compelling location in the world for the development and delivery of precision medicine! Not exactly an unambitious objective given by Innovate UK to the Precision Medicine Catapult (PMC) earlier this year, …
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 …
The Transport Systems Catapult (TSC) story began three years ago, when it was tasked with enabling the UK to remain at the cutting edge of transport innovation. We now find ourselves at the gateway of a revolution in transport technology, …
Currently the UK digital economy is relatively small The Economist magazine recently observed: despite appearances, the UK digital economy is still relatively small. The digital economy contributes 7% of national output; only 5% of jobs and 9% of businesses form …
City focus Most of us either live in, work in, or visit cities regularly. They are engines of growth and by 2050, are expected to be home to 70% of the worlds population. With such rapid population growth, our cities …
Three years since we launched It’s been three years since the Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult launched and I’m proud to say in that time we’ve gone from an idea to being one of the most prominent cell and gene …
A quick quiz… Do you think staff in the Innovate UK family: All work in Swindon All work in Swindon apart from the people in the Catapult centres Are mostly in Swindon except for a few people in London None …
