UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is an organisation working in partnership with universities, research organisations, businesses, charities and government to foster and develop research and development. Innovate UK, the innovation arm of UKRI has announced their plans to invest £20 million in coronavirus R&D “resilience” projects. Innovate UK is calling for businesses in the UK [...]
A statement released by the BioIndustry Association (BIA) highlights the potential harm the proposed changes to the R&D tax credit schemes could have on small and medium-sized enterprises (SME). The government is proposing to introduce a cap on the value of cash payments that loss-making SMEs can receive through R&D tax credits. This would be [...]
Three global investors, WAVE Equity Partners, Chevron Technology Ventures and Marubeni Corporations, have invested £12.3 million in UK carbon dioxide separation technology innovator, Carbon Clean Solutions Limited (CCSL). CCSL, a UK-based start-up founded in 2009, is pioneering the way of developing affordable carbon capture technology for utilisation and storage, as used by steel, cement, refining [...]
The Engineering and Physical Science Research Council centre for doctoral training is collaborating with the world-leading SFI research centres and UK higher education institutions as part of a €38.6 million research and development project. CÚRAM is the Science Foundation Ireland Centre for Research in Medical Devices and it has now received a substantial amount of [...]
Despite U.K R&D spending reaching a record breaking 33.1 billion pounds, its efforts were still not enough and it currently only ranks 11th in the European Union, according to Office Of National Statistics. This signifies that Britain is lagging behind its major European peers when it comes to R&D spending. Britain invested 1.67 percent of [...]
After two years of construction the new Unilever research and development centre opens in Merseyside, Uk. The R&D facility features a pilot plant which will allow scientists and engineers at Unilever to test new ideas on a factory scale. The site director Cameron Jones is delighted to announce the official opening of the advanced manufacturing [...]
Attention all chocoholics! How does getting paid to eat chocolate sound? Think it’s too good to be true, well think again because four new roles have opened up in the UK as a professional taster of Cadbury chocolate, Oreo cookies and cocoa drinks. Cadbury is calling all people with tastebuds for detection and with a [...]
As a result of rapid advancements in research and development and innovative thinking, a worldwide beverage could become the next big phenomenon in the fuel industry. An active ingredient has been identified which is present in beer and can be used as a renewable source of motor fuel, potentially replacing diesel and gasoline and requiring [...]
If your company is carrying out research into a new process and is incurring costs and expenses as a result of its research, it may be eligible for an R&D tax relief. It does not matter whether the time, effort and costs invested will result in a successful outcome, as long as the company is [...]
Exciting things are ahead in the delivery service industry as Starship technologies releases their newest delivery service robots and are revolutionising local delivery by making it faster, smarter and more cost-efficient. The delivery service robots were founded in London and designed to deliver small packages within a two-to-three mile radius. The robots operate autonomously 99% of the [...]
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