Sector News

• ·         Today’s funding will support better diagnosis for UK patients through AI and new tech at new regional centres of excellence.
• ·         500,000 Biobank volunteers will see their genome sequenced providing data that will help the UK lead the world in development of tools for early diagnosis and new pioneering therapies

Innovate UK, on behalf of UK Research and Innovation, is inviting proposals on the potential future challenges to get support through the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund.

Read more about the fund here

JOBLIFT ANALYSES WHICH CITIES AND TOWNS WILL DOMINATE THE UK'S TECH SCENE IN THE NEAR FUTURE

PwC report points to health and social care and education as main public service areas to be affected by the technology in the UK

Robotics & Automation 2018: Esslingen near Stuttgart, Germany 28^th February

As laboratory experimentation, data and interpretation become increasingly complex, automation and information technology (IT) solutions become essential for successful drug discovery.

The importance of international collaboration was reinforced on Friday 2 February by Science Minister Sam Gyimah at the Research Day of the EU Competitiveness Council in Bulgaria, where he outlined his desire to see the principles of excellence, competitiveness and openness to the world to remain the guiding principles of European science and innovation, and for the UK to play a leading role in shaping these principles, both now and in the future.

The economy depends on getting more businesses to adopt new ideas, says Innovate UK’s Ruth McKernan

Doing something different, something that no-one else is doing is a risk. What if it doesn’t work? What if the returns don’t justify the investment? What if I lose so much money I have to lay people off?

ANNUAL BUSINESS OF SCIENCE EVENT RETURNS FOR 2018

The 2018 Business of Science conference will return on Thursday 17^th May with a raft of high-profile speakers, including Vice-Chancellor, University of Liverpool, Professor Dame Janet Beer DBE and Richard Carter, managing director UK and Ireland for BASF. 

The event, which was launched two years ago, explores the commercialisation of great science, while highlighting the latest developments in ground-breaking innovation and invention.

Expression of Interest: Hosted visit to Brisbane and City of Gold Coast, Queensland

Trade 2018 - Commonwealth  Games Trade and Investment Program

10th-13th April 2018

Trade and Investment Queensland, TIQ, is organising an e-health industry sector mission to Australia to participate in a business engagement program involving many of Queensland’s leading health sector research and development organisations and agencies.