World Region – UK

Four UK technology companies – including a space situational awareness specialist – have been selected to receive support from the UK-APAC Tech Growth Programme, to help accelerate plans for expansion in Japan. Aimed at UK technology startups headquartered in the UK, the programme is a government-backed initiative run by Intralink, a business development consultancy. The latest four companies to be ...

iSH, the Industrial Solutions Hub, is hosting a Space Week series of events across West Cumbria from 26-30 June. The organisation says businesses, schools and individuals are invited to a range of space-related events throughout the last week of the month to see how they could be inspired by the UK’s space sector. The first two days of the event ...

The UK’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology has announced a National Semiconductor Strategy, and today said that it will “invest up to £1bn in the next decade to improve access to infrastructure, power more research and development and facilitate greater international cooperation, with up to £200 million over the years 2023-25”. Therefore, reaching £1bn would require the next government ...

Today the government announced an investment in telecoms of almost £150 million  in telecoms with up to £100 million for R&D, and £40m to boost 5G tech take-up The government has committed up to £100 million of funding initially to shape and drive early-stage research into 6G and influence global standards-setting. “We want to ensure that 6G is developed to meet ...

A report from the Centre for Policy Studies on what the government could do to support the UK semiconductor sector suggests the following actions: .  introduce tax and investment incentives for high-intensity R&D industries such as: .  a bespoke R&D tax credit for companies in sectors that fall within the ‘families of UK strength and opportunity’ as set out in ...

A number of UK technology-related figures have signed an open letter to the Prime Minister asking him to implement a semiconductor industry support strategy. Here it is: Dear Prime Minister, We, the undersigned, are asking you to prepare and publish a UK Semiconductor Strategy as a matter of urgency. The UK is an undisputed world leader in tech and innovation ...

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), is today calling on government to help tackle the UK’s engineering skills shortage by embedding engineering into the current curriculum. The IET’s new Engineering Kids’ Futures (EKF) report  leads with a series of recommendations to the UK government to embed engineering and technology within primary and secondary learning. It is estimated there is ...

The government has announced a telecoms lab to be based in Solihull. “The first of its kind in the country, the lab will act as a secure research facility bringing together telecom operators, suppliers and academics to research and test ways of boosting the security, resilience and performance of the UK’s mobile networks,” according to the Department for Digital, Culture, ...

The UK government’s DASA (Defence and Security Accelerator) has awarded £1.3 million in funding for four “telexistence” innovations as part of a competition for commercial proposals. Entrants, in collaboration with Dstl and NDA, were asked to create a platform using Telepresence, Robotics and Haptics together. The three winners (actually four projects) are: TNO, Sheffield University and Cyberselves Universal (for both ...

The UK’s Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) is launching a £1.5 million competition to trial the CHERI security architecture in a defence and security context. CHERI stands for Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions, and it addresses memory safety issues and enables fine grain protection of applications. For its part, DASA is seeking proposals to experiment the effects of the CHERI-based ...