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Innovation Alliance Director Receives OBE
Innovation Alliance Director, Pam Waddell, has been awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to Innovation in the West Midlands. Pam is the founding Director of the Innovation Alliance for the West Midlands, a regional partnership working to...
Survey of scientists finds UK retains appeal despite Brexit
UK third most attractive destination for academic researchers despite political uncertainty In a landmark study of 10,000+ researchers, ResearchGate finds the UK retains its draw — whilst offering some of the highest salaries. Surprisingly, scientists in the UK are...
Life Sciences Opportunity Zones
Life Sciences Opportunity Zones (LSOZ) are a government scheme designed to showcase some of the UK’s best science park opportunities for life sciences investors. Through engagement with Ministers, the Department for International Trade, and the Office for Life...
International partnership opportunities for UK research and innovation
International partnership opportunities for UK research and innovation A new independent report has been published today by Professor Sir Adrian Smith and Professor Graeme Reid. - Independent report sets out new opportunities to boost international partnerships on...
International partnership opportunities for UK research and innovation
A new independent report has been published today by Professor Sir Adrian Smith and Professor Graeme Reid. - Independent report sets out new opportunities to boost international partnerships on research and innovation - the government will seek to maintain a...
UK and China scientists developing new drugs to fight tuberculosis
Researchers at the University of Birmingham have joined forces with their counterparts at the Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health (GIBH) to develop promising drug candidates for anti-Tuberculosis therapy and initiate a drug discovery effort. In order...
Backing the scientists of the future
The next generation of UK bioscientists have received a £170 million boost from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC, a part of UK Research and Innovation). The investment will fund 1,700 PhD researchers over five annual cohorts at...
Nick Sturge awarded Business Leader of the Year 2019
Director of Engine Shed, Nick Sturge MBE, has been named Business Leader of the Year at the 2019 South West Business Leader Awards on 26 September 2019. Now in its seventh year, the Awards, which celebrate business success and enterprise, were hosted by Michael...
Government visa change a welcome move for STEM
CaSE has welcomed today's announcement that international students will be allowed to remain in the UK for two years after graduating to look for a job under a new two-year post-study work visa. CaSE has long called for the reintroduction of an internationally...
Chris Skidmore returns as Science Minister
The government yesterday confirmed Michelle Donelan as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Children and Families, as Chris Skidmore returns as joint Minister of State for the Department for Education and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial...
PM’s vision of UK as a science superpower
PM sets out vision to cement UK as a science superpower The world’s top scientists will be encouraged to move to the UK under a shake-up of immigration rules announced by the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, said: Britain has a proud history of...
Innovation Alliance Director Receives OBE
Innovation Alliance Director, Pam Waddell, has been awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to Innovation in the West Midlands. Pam is the founding Director of the Innovation Alliance for the West Midlands, a regional partnership working to...
UK quantum tech’s £153 million commercialisation programme
£153 million Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund funding, alongside £205 million from industry, will support the commercialisation of quantum technologies. New quantum technologies have the potential to revolutionise a range of industries – from cybersecurity to...
Immersive Technologies become the new reality at Leeds
Virtual reality (VR) is becoming the new normal at the University of Leeds, as staff and students working in engineering, arts, humanities, the social sciences and health research embrace the technology. The University has today (Thursday 13th June) launched a...
Partner with Singapore on disruptive projects: apply for funding
Singapore has been a driving force for global innovation for many years, referred to as ‘a mini Silicon Valley’ by Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman. 1 of only 3 city states in the world, Singapore rose to fifth place in the 2018 Global Innovation...