Challenges faced by the public sector: Shared ambitions lead to shared success
Paul Bradbury, Group Business Development Director, Civica explains how shared ambitions lead to shared success when it comes to the challenges faced by the public sector
Ocean energy: Time to unleash the current
Gesine Meissner MEP, Special Envoy to the President of the European Parliament on Maritime Policy, shares her thoughts on ocean energy and why now is the time to unleash the current so that renewable technologies in Europe are pushed forward
Birmingham art-tech agency celebrates Bitcoin’s 10th birthday
Thomas Crown Art, the Birmingham based art-tech agency is set to merge cryptocurrencies and pieces of art to celebrated Bitcoin's 10th anniversary.
Halloween causes severe fear and confusion in dementia sufferers
Halloween is a fun time for many, dressing up, collecting as many sweets as possible and joining in on the community spirit. However, for dementia sufferers, Halloween can cause severe fear and confusion
Diabetes monitoring and drug delivery innovation fields: The scenario for big technology synergy
Cecilia Van Cauwenberghe from Frost & Sullivan’s TechVision Group provides a market perspective on the diabetes monitoring and drug delivery innovation fields and explains why these are a scenario for big technology synergy
Former EU Research Commissioner voices concerns over R&D focus
Máire Geoghegan-Quinn took to twitter to reach out to research chiefs in order to share her concerns over keeping the EU's 2021-2027 R&D programme focused on excellence.
Can labour-market inequalities be reduced by negotiating at the company level?
Pierre Courtioux, Research Director at the Economics Research Centre (EDHEC) probes if labour-market inequalities can be reduced by negotiating at the company level
Turning buildings into power stations: The UK’s first energy-positive office
Dr Justin Searle at Swansea University, discusses low carbon affordable buildings and energy-positive structures.
UK employees lose six days a year from snoozing their alarms
New research from Bensons for Beds reveals the UK industries that are struggling to get out of bed in the morning, along with shocking figures on how much time they lose from snoozing their alarms
Drone training professionals discover sharp rise in women enrolling on UAV courses
RUSTA, which offers Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) approved National Qualified Entity (NQE) drone training courses, noticed an upsurge in women across the UK registering on its courses in the last 12 months
Listening to Infrastructure: Early warning systems for infrastructure deterioration
Dr Alister Smith, a UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Fellow based at Loughborough University, is developing novel infrastructure health monitoring technologies
Financing the low carbon economy: Heat networks
Meeting the UK’s legally binding climate change targets will require complete or near-complete decarbonisation of heat. This article will explain how heat networks could help to make this possible
UK and Dutch trade relationship goes from strength to strength
UK and Dutch ministers announced new commercial agreements between the two countries at the UK-Netherlands Innovation Showcase event today
Mental capital and wellbeing at work
Professor Sir Cary Cooper, 50th Anniversary Professor of Organizational Psychology & Health at the University of Manchester, provides a fascinating overview of mental capital and wellbeing at work from the UK and European angle
Surging AI industry in the UK
A major report by Big Innovation Centre and Deep Knowledge Analytics places the UK in the third spot in the global rankings for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and it foresees it excelling in specific subsectors and areas in the coming years
How blockchain and smart contracts are impacting business functions
Jacqueline Watts, Senior Associate Solicitor at A City Law Firm, explains how blockchain and smart contracts are new technologies which have impacted the many business functions of different companies across various industries
EIC Pilot to invest €124 million in new high-risk innovative projects
The European Innovation Council (EIC) pilot will support 38 innovative projects to develop new ideas towards radically new future technologies
Identity theft a top concern for UK citizens
Leading security barometer from Unisys shows that UK citizens fear identity theft over other security concerns such as national security
UK seizes more than £2 million of fake medicines
A crackdown on fake medicines and medical devices by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has netted a haul of more than 1 million doses worth in excess of £2 million
Stopping fraud against the NHS: new plans announced
Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock has announced how it will take tougher action on stopping fraud and save hundreds of millions of pounds for the NHS over the next 5 years, increasing the money available for improving patient care