Sector News
Grassroots R&D is a foundation for building back better
Close-to-market innovation across the UK can drive recovery, say Patrick Bonnett and Steve Yianni in a recent article first published in Research Professional News The Chancellor’s budget in March marked a shift in plans to support economic growth through investment...
Appointment of Indro Mukerjee as new CEO of Innovate UK
Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has today (5 May 2021) announced the appointment of Indro Mukerjee as the new CEO of Innovate UK, the UK’s innovation agency. Indro Mukerjee is a highly experienced technology executive and business leader with a track record of...
World-first academies launch in Wales to drive global healthcare revolutions
Wales has become the first country in the world to launch specialised Intensive Learning Academies (ILAs) that will deliver transformational training and support across preventative health, Value-Based Health and Care, and innovations in health and social care. Welsh...
BioCity Group acquired by Trinity Investment Management and Harrison Street Real Estate Capital
BioCity Group has been acquired by Trinity Investment Management (Trinity IM) and Harrison Street Real Estate Capital (Harrison Street) as part of a pre-existing joint venture.The deal will see the merger of BioCity Group with Trinity IM's science real estate arm,...
Planning permission granted for Birmingham Health Innovation Campus
Work is set to begin on the first phase of Birmingham Health Innovation Campus this Summer after planning permission was granted by Birmingham City Council. The first phase will see the development of No.1 Birmingham Health Innovation Campus which will offer...
£20 million fund to grow UK life sciences manufacturing opens for applications
Life science companies can now apply to the new £20 million fund to expand manufacturing in the UK, Minister Nadhim Zahawi announced today (Wednesday 7 April). Announced last November by the Prime Minister and now open for applications, the Medicines and...
UK manufacturing outlook improves in March, CBI survey shows
Output volumes in the UK manufacturing sector in the three months to March improved to broadly flat, which marked the highest balance since May 2019. This is according to the CBI’s latest monthly Industrial Trends Survey. The survey of 321 manufacturers found that...
Green light for new global life sciences district
Oxford North proposed by Thomas White Oxford will create a new life sciences district for Oxford, to include new laboratories and workspaces for biomedical science, new homes, public parks and neighbourhood shops. The project will release £8m...
£47.6 million secured for Oxfordshire’s Vaccines Manufacturing and Innovation Centre.
The Vaccines Manufacturing and Innovation Centre (VMIC), which is being built at Harwell Campus in Oxfordshire, has been granted an additional £47.6 million to support the expansion and acceleration of the programme. The VMIC will be the UK’s first national...
Babraham Research Campus announces new Board Chair appointment
Babraham Bioscience Technologies Ltd (BBT), the organisation which oversees the development and day-to-day management of the Babraham Research Campus is delighted to confirm Jo Parfrey as the new BBT Board Chair. Jo has been a non-executive director on the BBT...
WISE launches tech landscape survey to close the digital skills
With women representing just 17% of IT professionals, a figure that has remained stubbornly low for the last decade, WISE, the campaign for greater gender balance in STEM, is launching an investigation into the routes into technology careers. The organisation is...
UK’s top female entrepreneurs backed by government to fire up economy through innovation
Forty of the UK’s leading women innovators are to scale up their innovations to help the UK recover from COVID-19 and tackle global challenges. Visionary British female entrepreneurs are receiving government backing to drive forward their novel innovations and...
New data reveals Knowledge Intensive (KI) firms in Cambridge continue to outperform national figures
Information technology and the life sciences are the largest and most dynamic of the KI sectors Medium term data on the growth of the Cambridge economy, right up to the start of the 2020 Covid lockdown, shows persistently higher annual growth rates than the national...
To be more sustainable, we must first be more equal
WISE believes that greater equality is essential to achieve greater sustainability. The campaign for greater gender diversity in STEM, is calling on employers to build flexibility into the DNA of their policies to create different routes into STEM roles. The call came...
Sci-Tech Daresbury pre-budget comment
John Downes, Chief Executive Officer of Langtree and Chairman of Sci-Tech Daresbury, said: “The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the fact that cutting edge science and technology is not only crucial to our collective wellbeing, but also a means to create the evenly...