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Catapulting growth in 2023 and beyond

In the face of many challenges – changing customer desires, cost pressures, supply chain disruption, expected regulatory changes and fierce competition – UK innovation is on the rise. This article showcases how Catapults helped to deliver great results for business and industry in 2023; it summarises our predictions for technology-driven advances in 2024 and the years ahead.

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It’s a fair COP – but we can all do our bit on emissions

The Conference of the Parties has concluded. We know it better as COP29 and the parties are the 198 nations that signed the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Brazil in 1992. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer used the conference to announce that emissions targets for the UK were to be even more ambitious – a cut of 81% from 1990 levels by 2035, instead of the previous 78%. The UK has come a long way on this, having cut greenhouse gas emissions by 50% compared to levels around the time that document was signed, whilst still seeing a 79% growth in the economy over the same period. It proves that economic success does not need to (literally) cost the Earth. But what can we do next?

High Value Manufacturing

It’s a fair COP – but we can all do our bit on emissions

The Conference of the Parties has concluded. We know it better as COP29 and the parties are the 198 nations that signed the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Brazil in 1992. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer used the conference to announce that emissions targets for the UK were to be even more ambitious – a cut of 81% from 1990 levels by 2035, instead of the previous 78%. The UK has come a long way on this, having cut greenhouse gas emissions by 50% compared to levels around the time that document was signed, whilst still seeing a 79% growth in the economy over the same period. It proves that economic success does not need to (literally) cost the Earth. But what can we do next?

High Value Manufacturing

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UK needs bold and ambitious industrial strategy

Katherine Bennett, CEO of the High Value Manufacturing Catapult, has welcomed the launch of the government’s new industrial strategy saying it must be ‘bold and ambitious’. Business and Trade Secretary, Jonathan Reynolds, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, have published a green paper to kickstart delivery of the industrial strategy, the first in seven years. The key sectors the government will focus on are: advanced manufacturing; clean energy industries, creative industries; defence; digital and technologies; financial services; life sciences; and professional and business services.

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