Starting up and scaling up

We heard from the Prime Minister in her speech to the CBI that she wants to turn the UK’s bright start-ups into successful scale-ups by backing them for the long term. 2016 Scale Up Club This week has seen the launch …
We heard from the Prime Minister in her speech to the CBI that she wants to turn the UK’s bright start-ups into successful scale-ups by backing them for the long term. 2016 Scale Up Club This week has seen the launch …
I was delighted to see the annual Innovate 2016 conference coming to the North last week. It showcased national excellence in key industrial sectors – and included great examples of Northern businesses and universities innovating together. The N8 Research Partnership – …
Innovate UK is focused on driving business growth – no surprise then that the majority of our funding (~80%) is directed towards companies. The remaining 20%, still a significant sum, goes into the UK research base – providing support to …
The last few months have seen much debate about public trust in experts, or rather a lack of it. So who do you trust to provide you with a solution to your problems? Trust is critical to innovation and a …
Better outcomes Everyone has a different definition for “innovation”. I think of innovation as simply “delivering better outcomes”. It is broad enough in scope to reflect the importance of innovation in enhancing every aspect of our lives, whilst at the …
Innovate UK and the EPSRC have just announced a £19.5 million funding competition for quantum technologies. But what are quantum technologies, and why are Innovate UK, and the UK government supporting them? What are quantum technologies? Quantum was invented by …
The Baby Boomers, who as youngsters invented flower power and the swinging sixties, are the leading edge of a change that will shape the consumer world for the foreseeable future. When they choose to retire, people now mostly in their …
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 …
At Innovate UK we have a saying: “We can’t stop thinking about the future”. There is a lot of interest around at the moment relating to drones, from the introduction of a new A-level that teaches about drones, to major …
‘March of the makers’ was the call to arms by the Chancellor George Osborne in 2011- a rallying cry to get the nation to make more and sell it overseas – for Made in Britain to become as prevalent and …