While transport hasn’t traditionally been the sexiest of sectors, it does touch just about every corner of our lives. The UK transport network moves an extraordinary number of people and vast quantities of goods to the places they need to …
The 2018 European Innovation Scoreboard (EIS) was published last month, and shows the UK in the group of Innovation Leaders for the second year in a row. Whilst some doubt the usefulness of composite indicators like the EIS (including me, …
Imagine if you ordered a new car and it came in a series of deliveries and put together by a series of different workers on your driveway. They work from a sheet drawing and can’t tell you exactly when it …
The UK faces huge opportunities but major competition with the likes of China and Canada investing mega-bucks to establish centres of excellence and gravity. The UK Government is putting AI and Data at the heart of its Industrial Strategy alongside …
Rechargeable batteries have completely changed our lives in recent years. We look back and laugh at the brick phones from the late 1980s and early 90s along with the shoulder pads and the yuppie image that went with them. …
It’s well publicised that our society benefits from advances in healthcare and, as a result, we’re living longer. In the UK today, there are 10 million people who can expect to live to 100 years. Yet, retailers appear to secretly …
Place is prominent in the governments thinking within the new Industrial Strategy. The White Paper highlights the important role that science, research, innovation and skills provision is expected to play in driving productivity and economic growth throughout the regions and …
Would you say it is an interesting time to take over as Interim Executive Chair at Innovate UK? Absolutely. We’re just into the second month of being in the new UK Research and Innovation family and we are in the …
The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) have published a paper that suggests how the creative potential of UK industry could be unlocked, to better respond to the challenges set out in the government's Industrial …
Now that we’ve closed the Expression of Interest for the next wave of challenges for the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund, I thought it would be helpful to briefly explain what happens next. 252 expressions of interest to read The first …
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