In my role as Head of Open programmes at Innovate UK, I see proposals for R&D projects across a wide range of sectors, technical topics and company sizes. One area that has recently caught my attention is the UK strength …
This summer a herd of animatronic dinosaurs are touring the country. In the temporary theme park will be a pack of 30 moving, breathing, true-to-life models of familiar dinosaurs powered by robotics.
Orla Protein Technologies Orla Protein Technologies Ltd is a biotechnology company with a focus on engineering proteins and immobilising them onto surfaces for application in the Life Sciences. Our CEO, Dr Dale Athey, co-founded Orla 13 years ago with Jeremy …
Open programme, open scope I took on a new role at Innovate UK just before Christmas. It’s a really exciting one, heading up the strategic development of our open scope programmes. We welcome project ideas from single companies and collaborations …
Our Emerging and Enabling Technologies sector group is the new home for our support for early stage (emerging), cross-cutting (enabling) and broad scope (open) innovation across whole economy. Although this sector group contains the word technologies in its title, our …
At Innovate UK we’ve a very simple message at the moment – 'We are open for business' and its business as usual in helping high growth potential companies throughout the UK commercialise their innovative ideas. So I wondered if you …
We were really pleased to publish our delivery plan for 2016/17 last week and I thought it might be helpful to highlight some of the changes we’re making to respond to the consistent feedback we’ve been receiving over the past few …