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  • British companies to receive support to develop new regenerative medicine products and technologies

    28 July 2010

    The government-backed Technology Strategy Board is to invest over £5 million to support the research and development in the UK of new regenerative medicine products, tools and technologies.

  • Money makes the world go around

    26 July 2010

    In all my time in industry, the main thing we worried about was money. Whether we had enough, whether we could get any more, how much we had to spend to get more and so on.

  • UK’s wave and tidal stream technology companies receive £7m to boost innovation

    23 July 2010

    Over 35 British businesses and universities have been offered support worth £7 million to help them to develop the wave and tidal energy technologies of the future. The investment has been allocated through a collaborative research and development funding competition designed to support innovation that will lead to the cost effective exploitation of UK and global wave and tidal stream resources.

  • Inches away from the dark side

    17 July 2010

    I have written before about the potential synergy of design and technology, and how we are gradually finding ways to engage with the design community more in our activities. One consequence of this is that we have been invited to join the Home Office Design and Technology Alliance. This, in turn, has allowed me to go and learn more about both design and crime!!

  • It all looks linear in hindsight

    10 July 2010

    A few years ago, I attended an EPSRC organised presentation where an American professor was “proving” that all major technological developments had started in scientific laboratories. He had an impressive list of examples and was doing well until someone asked the simple question “what happened to all the ideas that didn’t get developed?”

  • Sizing up the future

    07 July 2010

    Now that we are 3 years old, we are beginning to accumulate the data we need to check that what we are doing is having the intended effect. One thing we have always tried to do...

  • On farm test for Campylobacter

    07 July 2010

    There is a requirement for a rapid, accurate, cheap test that can be deployed on farms to identify Campylobacter infection. This test would be used to inform actions on the farm and would need to be simple and robust enough for farm workers to use.

  • Reduction in hospital admissions

    06 July 2010

    The NHS South Central Challenge is looking to all sectors to bring new technologies and new practice to bear on the achievement of the ambitious Shaping the Future (QIPP) target of a 20% reduction in admissions to hospital within the next 2 years.

  • Minister announces £8.4m investment in Plastic Electronics technologies

    01 July 2010

    A range of specialist plastic electronics businesses are to benefit from a total of £8.4m investment in research and development into new technology that will lead to the creation of a range of new products such as conformable and rollable electronic displays, ultra-efficient lighting and low-cost, long-life solar cells.

  • Innovative crop protection R&D may help farmers cope with new EU regulations

    01 July 2010

    Over thirty innovative projects put forward by business led consortia from across agriculture and the crop protection industry are to receive support of over £13.5m from the Government to carry out applied research and development.

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