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public sector

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

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
bitcoin

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.
dementia sufferers

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

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
eu research

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.
labour-market

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
energy-positive office

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.
snoozing

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

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
infrastructure

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
heat networks

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

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
wellbeing at work

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
AI Industry

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
new technologies

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
innovative projects

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

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
fake medicines

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

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

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