The future of the car
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. …
Meet the Industrial Strategy Challenge Director – Medicines Manufacturing
What Industrial Strategy Challenge am I leading? I am the interim Challenge Director for Medicines Manufacturing, which seeks to dramatically enhance the pace of development, manufacture and delivery of novel medicines in the UK and thus to increase the rate …
Place, People and Purpose – Innovation clusters, driving growth in the North of England
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 …
Meet Dr Ian Campbell, our new Interim Executive Chair
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 …
Unlocking the creative potential of UK Industry
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 …
Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund - wave 3 update
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 …
Next generation services - an Industrial Strategy Challenge
A key, unifying factor of the high-value data-driven service sector is that they rely on the knowledge, experience and intuition of people to deliver the services they provide.
Meet the Industrial Strategy Challenge Director - Transforming Food Production
What Industrial Strategy Challenge are we leading? Andy and I are the interim co-Directors for Transforming Food Production, which seeks to deliver a step change in the way we ensure the sustainable supply of food. We are facing a major …
The future of construction
Imagine if the schools we built as a nation helping pupils achieve better educational performance just from the way they were designed. What if UK homes were all built with integrated energy generation and storage meaning most people had zero …
Innovation to commercialisation of university research (ICURe)
UK universities house some of the brightest minds and most brilliant ideas on the planet. It was from UK universities that penicillin, fibre optics and the World Wide Web emerged. UK researchers introduced us to Dolly – the world’s first …