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The powerful network ready to help the UK realise its true potential Partner content
Economy
By Catapult Network
The powerful network ready to help the UK realise its true potential
From levelling up to reaching net zero, the UK has big ideas and grand plans – but in the midst of a war in Ukraine, a growing labour shortage, a booming rise in cost of living and with the pandemic and Brexit still influencing public spending the question is: can it achieve its ambitions? Matthew Durdy explains why the Catapult Network could hold many of the answers.
Partner content
Economy
By Catapult Network
The House of Lords debates the Catapult Network's role and future
On 19 May the House of Lords debated the report from the Science and Technology Committee: Catapults: bridging the gap between research and industry.
TEPCO visit to new robotics centre Partner content
Economy
By Sellafield Ltd
TEPCO visit to new robotics centre
Sellafield Ltd this week hosted representatives from TEPCO – the company in charge of decommissioning the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear site in Japan – to West Cumbria to view the Sellafield site and the new robotics facility in Whitehaven.
A Year of Innovation: The Catapult Network's review of 2021 Partner content
Economy
By Catapult Network
A Year of Innovation: The Catapult Network's review of 2021
2021 demonstrated the power of what Catapults can achieve. Find out how we plan on going further in 2022.
We must unlock the full potential of cell and gene therapies
Health
By Daniel Zeichner MP
We must unlock the full potential of cell and gene therapies
In July, I was delighted to chair a Policy Connect roundtable on cell and gene therapies, to consider how they can contribute to better patient care, the wider health service and the economy.
Facebook Whistleblower Warns MPs Political Unrest Organised On Social Media Is Just The 'Opening Chapter'
Social affairs
Facebook Whistleblower Warns MPs Political Unrest Organised On Social Media Is Just The "Opening Chapter"
Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen has warned that events like the Capitol Riots and ethinic violence in Ethiopia are just “opening chapters” to worse events if social media companies are left unchecked.
How British science will help levelling up Partner content
Health
By Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI)
How British science will help levelling up
The Prime Minister has begun to set out his levelling up plans. The challenge is now to rebalance growth and jobs across the regions within this parliament. The health sector, emerging growth-ready from the pandemic, can be an engine for this.
Why the UK’s Catapult Network Is Key to an Innovation-Led Economy Partner content
Economy
By Catapult Network
Why the UK’s Catapult Network Is Key to an Innovation-Led Economy
With the publication of its new £22 billion Innovation Strategy, government has placed innovation front and centre of its post-COVID recovery plans. But turning words into action will demand collaboration, strategic alignment, and on-the-ground support. Dr Jeremy Silver, Chair of the UK’s Catapult Network, sits down with The House to share his thoughts on how UK Catapults can help drive delivery and turbocharge the nation’s recovery
The animal health industry: part of the development of the UK as a scientific superpower Partner content
Environment
By NOAH
The animal health industry: part of the development of the UK as a scientific superpower
Dawn Howard, NOAH Chief Executive, calls on the government to back the animal health and medicines industry as a core part of the UK’s fast-developing life sciences sector.
Online Platforms Are In An “Arms Race” With Scammers Against Harmful Content, Says Advertising Regulator
Economy
Online Platforms Are In An “Arms Race” With Scammers Against Harmful Content, Says Advertising Regulator
The chair of the UK’s independent advertising regulator has described how the body and the online platforms it oversees are in an “arms race” against “sophisticated” scammers.
Maths deserves to be included in the name of the Science and Technology Committee
Economy
By Christian Wakeford MP and Professor Ulrike Tillmann
Maths deserves to be included in the name of the Science and Technology Committee
Maths matters. Even its most pure parts have a habit of throwing up answers to some of our most pressing practical questions.
Partner content
Economy
By Catapult Network
Catapult Network welcomes Government’s Innovation Strategy and ambition to cement UK position as a world-leader in science, research and innovation
Celebrating 20 years of levelling up in South Yorkshire Partner content
Economy
By High Value Manufacturing Catapult
Celebrating 20 years of levelling up in South Yorkshire
If the past 20 years are anything to go by, the University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre has a vital role to play as the UK faces the challenges of today.
The Science and Tech start-ups powering the green recovery Partner content
Environment
By Legal & General
The Science and Tech start-ups powering the green recovery
Science, technology, and innovation are set to play a critical role in helping the nation to meet its ambitious target of achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
STEM will make the future, so let’s open its doors to all Partner content
Environment
By Institution of Engineering and Technology
STEM will make the future, so let’s open its doors to all
Expanding accessibility within engineering and technology is essential for the UK as the world undergoes the biggest wave of technological change since the Industrial Revolution.
Britain can be a world leader in Artificial Intelligence
Coronavirus
By Lord Holmes
Britain can be a world leader in Artificial Intelligence
As Co-chair of the APPG on Data Analytics, I was pleased to participate in the launch of a report – Our Place Our Data: Involving Local People in Data and AI Based Recovery – that took place in early April.
Hydrogen offers UK “quick win” in fight to decarbonise Partner content
Economy
By Cadent
Hydrogen offers UK “quick win” in fight to decarbonise
Hydrogen and carbon capture technology offer the UK a “quick win” in decarbonising, but realising this will require significant education to drive consumer behaviour change.
Dominic Cummings Had Four Conditions To Agree To 'Sort Out Huge Brexit Nightmare' As Boris Johnson's Chief Adviser
Political parties
Dominic Cummings Had Four Conditions To Agree To "Sort Out Huge Brexit Nightmare" As Boris Johnson's Chief Adviser
Dominic Cummings has said he had four conditions that he laid out at a meeting in his living room with Boris Johnson before agreeing to become the Prime Minister's chief adviser.
Senior MPs back calls for a new approach to '6G’ technology Partner content
Health
By Institution of Engineering and Technology
Senior MPs back calls for a new approach to '6G’ technology
MPs have welcomed calls from the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) for a new approach to mobile digital technology which prioritises societal benefits over a focus on “ever higher data speed”.
Let's use this Budget to reform R&D tax credits and kickstart a recovery for British manufacturing Partner content
Coronavirus
By Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI)
Let's use this Budget to reform R&D tax credits and kickstart a recovery for British manufacturing
We need to harness the energy of British science for the task of rebuilding our economy. Bringing capital expenditure into R&D tax credits is a simple, rapidly self-financing way to kick-start growth.
Millions of UK consumers could be about to hold a billion-dollar tech giant to account. Here’s how Partner content
Economy
By Which?
Millions of UK consumers could be about to hold a billion-dollar tech giant to account. Here’s how
Which? is bringing a landmark claim against tech giant Qualcomm not only so consumers can get their money back, but to send a message to big companies that manipulative practices and abuse of power is unacceptable
Smart technology empowering smart people Partner content
Defence
By Leidos
Smart technology empowering smart people
The emerging threats in the security and defence world are a lot harder to predict, manage or address than conventional armies.
Partner content
Economy
By Institution of Engineering and Technology
IET responds to BEIS’ potential change to State Aid Rules
In response to the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) looking to change State Aid rules following the United Kingdom’s departure of the European Union in 2020, Professor Devaki Bhatta, Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology’s Innovation and Emerging Technologies Policy Panel, said:
Helping the country build back better and greener Partner content
Economy
By Openreach
Helping the country build back better and greener
The pandemic has underlined how essential reliable broadband is – for keeping in touch with friends and family, home working, schooling and accessing key public services.