The Technology Strategy Board, the UK’s innovation agency, is to provide the initial £1m prize money for a new ‘grand innovation challenge’ set by the prime minister.
The Technology Strategy Board (www.innovateuk.org) is to invest up to £10m in new research and development projects that stimulate innovation across the key enabling technology areas of advanced materials; biosciences; electronics, sensors & photonics; and information & communications technology.
The government is to invest up to £2m to stimulate and support technological innovation by the UK’s small and micro businesses. The Technology Strategy Board www.innovateuk.org aims to stimulate innovation across a range of core technology areas to help ensure that small
A four-year government-funded programme that aims to develop new technologies to help meet the needs of the UK’s future power systems will kick-off with investment of £2.4m in feasibility studies that will stimulate innovation in automated power distribution and demand management. The
Ten British companies are to lead government-backed research, development and demonstration projects that will use talent within the UK’s information and communication technology sectors to improve productivity and competitiveness in manufacturing and construction. The Technology Strategy Board and the Engineering and Physical
The government today announced two major investments in renewable energy technology. Business secretary Vince Cable announced the start of a competition to form an Offshore Renewable Energy technology and innovation centre. The new centre will focus on technologies for offshore wind, wave
The Technology Strategy Board is to invest up to £12m through three new research and development competitions that will stimulate innovation and support growth across the UK. Scheduled to open in May and June, the three competitions are designed to accelerate the
The government is to invest £7m in strategic research and development projects and ground-breaking trials aimed at improving co-operation between infrastructure providers, content producers, users and software developers. The investment follows a competition for funding managed by the government-backed Technology Strategy Board,
The CBI today commented on the Science and Technology Select Committee Technology and Innovation Centres Report proposals. Tim Bradshaw, CBI head of enterprise and innovation, said: "We welcome this report and the commitment to identify those existing centres in the UK that
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