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November 13, 2020 admin Post in Innovation in the UK

Innovation, technology policy, and skills

The development of a successful national set of policies that can capitalise on specific industry and technology developments in a country need to be based on a simple series of principles. Looking at the UK, one international benchmarking study found…

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October 16, 2020 admin Post in Innovation in the UK

UK Sectors in which lack of skills is holding back innovation

Here are some findings from our recent research: UK Sectors in which the lack of skills is holding back innovation Level 4: Nanotechnology; Big Data Level 3: Civil aviation; Creative industries; Financial services; Industrial biotechnology Level 2: Agri-science; Electronics, photonics,…

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October 16, 2020 admin Post in Innovation in the UK

Innovation is more than just R&D

There is a direct link between skills and innovation and, to be truly innovative, businesses need people with balanced sets of innovation-related skills.  The higher STEM-based skills, which tend to be the focus of ‘traditional’ Research and Development (R&D), are…

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October 16, 2020 admin Post in Innovation in the UK

The UK’s new R&D Roadmap: where’s the D in Boris?

In UK businesses, innovation has fallen alarmingly in recent years.  So the publishing of the UK government’s new Research and Development (R&D) Roadmap seems to us to be falling into the old British trap of taking overstated pride in research,…

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August 28, 2020 admin Post in Innovation in the UK

Innovation in Advanced Manufacturing 1

For manufacturing businesses in the UK, building workforces to be able to take advantage of Advanced Manufacturing (AM) innovations is quite different from that usually associated with more traditional Research and Development (R&D). Why?  Well, normally R&D workforce development focuses…

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August 14, 2020 admin Post in Innovation in the UK

The state of UK Innovation

More UK businesses need to be innovating.  At a national level, R&D investment needs to be raised, together with the related spend on education and training for innovation.  Together this would lead to greater levels of productivity and generate high-quality…

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