The Research & Development Society
Current Newsletter
Spring 2023
In this newsletter
- Update from Dr Iain Simpson (Chairman)
Thought leadership from Dr David Hughes, Newsletter Editor
- R & D Society Activity
- Innovation/commercialisation
- Artificial Intelligence
- Semi-conductors
- Life sciences/Biotech
- Transport & Logistics
Newsletter Archive
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- Reflections on this month’s Newsletter from David Hughes (Newsletter editor)
- “Surely you are joking Mr Feynman”
- Prime Minister’s speech to CBI
- New National Science and Technology Council (NSTC)
- Update on UK participation in Europe R&D programmes
- Lessons from EU for ARIA
- And finally …we list some interesting news items without comment
- Reflections on this month’s Newsletter from David Hughes (Newsletter editor)
- High tech, high growth UK companies in danger of overseas takeovers
- Three critical reports on Governments Science strategy and operational performance
- UK funding for Horizon and more delays to EU European Innovation Council
- Appointment of CEO/Chair of ARIA
- And finally ……..some things we found interesting and thought provoking!
- Reflections on this month’s Newsletter from David Hughes (Newsletter editor)
- The Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021
- EU Horizon Programme
- International comparison of the UK research base, 2022 – BEIS report.
- Review of Research Bureaucracy
- The Times Higher Education (THE) report on Gender Equality
- And finally ……..some things we found interesting and thought provoking!
- Reflections on this month’s Newsletter from David Hughes (Newsletter editor)
- Can We Level Up Research and Development?
- Cambridge releases UK Innovation Report 2022
- Uncertain future of the Vaccine Manufacturing and Innovation Centre (VMIC)
- Edinburgh bids for tech glory – again
- The Newton Fund – final evaluation report
- And finally ……..some things we found interesting and thought provoking!
- Reflections on this month’s Newsletter from David Hughes (Newsletter editor)
- Looking back at 2021
- Ford takes the in-car electronics high ground.
- Innovation Strategy and Innovate-UK (I-UK) action plan
- Better use of resources which could accelerate innovationn
- And finally ……..some things we found interesting and thought provoking!
- Reflections on this month’s Newsletter from David Hughes (Newsletter editor)
- Short shrift for UK’s Innovation Agency in the Autumn Budget.
- University rankings warning – China accelerating
- Secret advice informing UK Innovation Policy?
- Research Excellence Framework (under scrutiny – are its days numbered?
- CPI announces a medicines manufacturing innovation centre
- Funding for next generation Science leaders ramps up
- George Freeman Appointed as New Minister for Science, Research and Innovation
- And finally ……..some things we found interesting and thought provoking!
- Reflections on this month’s Newsletter from David Hughes (Newsletter editor)
- UK Innovation Strategy - “ambition without a plan?”
- Government R&D budget allocation
- Review of Catapult Network
- Thoughts from Sir John Kingman on leaving the UKRI
- And finally ……..some things we found interesting and thought provoking!
- Reflections on this month’s Newsletter from David Hughes (Newsletter editor)
- Climate Policy Dashboard
- Late Stage Development
- Review of Catapult Network
- A Taxonomy of UK national Laboratories
- A new tool to speed electronics development
- And finally ……..some things we found interesting and thought provoking!
- Reflections from David Hughes
- The Budget and R&D
- The numbers don’t add up to 2.4%.
- What next for the UK Industrial Strategy? ’
- And finally ……..some things we found interesting
- Reflections from David Hughes on innovation
- Thoughts on the trade deal as UK leaves the EU
- New focus for Innovate UK.
- Here we go again! ‘Build Back Britain Council’
- Surprising if true! Cambridge Wireless (CW) has teamed up with Huawei to build a 5G mobile private network
- And finally ……..some things we found interesting
- The Government Spending Review
- Turning medical research into applications quickly
- More on the ARM Holdings deal
- A clear energy strategy for the UK?
- And finally ……..some things we found interesting
- What is the future for the UK’s innovation agency?
- ‘An ARPAlling Idea’
- World University Rankings tables
- The Innovation Expert Group
- R&D Tax Credits
- And finally ……..some things we found interesting
- Royal Academy of Engineering report on stimulating R&D for a faster recovery
- Macroeconomic modelling of the 2.4% R&D target.
- Science & Technology Committee inquiry into a new UK research funding agency
- New UK Government R&D Roadmap policy paper
- And finally ……..some things we found interesting
- Is COVID19 the catalyst for a more radical approach to R&D?
- UK Innovation survey
- A new report from the Manufacturing Commission
- And finally ……..some things we found interesting
- Budget impact for R&D
Postscript to last month’s hydrogen article.
- Energy Utopias and engineering realities – Michael Kelly
- Latest R&D investment statistics.
- And finally ……..some things we found interesting
- Post election prospects for R&D
- Hydrogen – the fuel of the future?
- Latest industrial R&D investment statistics
- And finally ……..some things we found interesting
- UK Manufacturing
- France Announces €5bn Push For Tech Start-ups emerging technologies
- Consultation on the draft plan for Horizon Europe
- And finally....
- Focus on the ‘D’ in R&D
- Another view on key emerging technologies
- Manufacturing update
- Industrial Strategy R&D update
- The need to focus on the 'D' in R&D
- Cross-sector collaboration on digital transformation
- Time to design a new racecourse? Shifting UK R&D policy to align with future opportunity
- Industrial Strategy R&D Update
- Industrial strategy R&D update
- Skills
- Manufacturing
- A novel idea for measuring innovation progress
- End of an era for automotive?
- Horizon EU research programme lacks ambition
- Research and Innovation in the NHS
- Industrial Strategy update
- A positive view of the future for UK high-value manufacturing
- Recent Manufacturing industry leaders’ summit in Liverpool
- Dispelling some common misconceptions about implementing smart manufacturing in the era of industry 4.0 - Nigel Smith
- Brexit – an opportunity for R&D?
- The Royal Academy of Engineering calls for more support for 'D' in R&D
- Future of jobs, World Economic Forum (WEF) report 2018
- What the public thinks of UK manufacturing
- Brexit and Research update
- Talking shop
- UK national infrastructure opportunities
- Global Innovation Challenge Fund opportunities
- Catapult Centres and Intermediary Technology Organisations
- Brexit and Research
- UK Government Industrial Strategy Update
- Global R&D funding forecast
- R&D tax credits
- Commercialising Science and Technology enabled Innovation
- The true impact of UK manufacturing
- Funding for Research
- From R&D to commercialisation – special Cambridge University event
- Digital Manufacturing Week 13-16 November 2018
- Industrial strategy update
