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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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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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£50 million boost for Catapult activity and capability in Chancellor’s Autumn Statement 2023
Last week, the Government's Autumn Statement announced a £50 million boost to Catapult funding to further enhance projects across energy, manufacturing, transportation, digitalisation and healthcare.
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Exploring a Catapult legacy with Stuart Martin
We sat down with Stuart Martin, CEO of Satellite Applications Catapult and founding member of the Catapult network, to talk about the mark he’s left on the UK space sector and the evolving mission of Catapults over his 10-years at the helm.
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Merger of Agri-Tech Centres paves way for future Catapult ambitions
Innovate UK is working with its three Agri-Tech Centres to create a new integrated capability. The three Agri-Tech Centres are Crop Health and Protection, Centre for Innovation Excellence in Livestock and Agricultural Engineering, Precision and Innovation Centre. This new single entity will facilitate a stronger cross-sectoral approach and drive better outcomes for the agri-tech sector across innovation, commercialisation, and adoption, as well as research. Together they are being invited to develop a proposal to establish an agri-tech Catapult, to complement the work of the existing nine Catapults.
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Catapult Network applauds two new publications from the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Today, George Freeman MP, Minister for Science, Research and Innovation welcomes two new publications from the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) evidencing continued Catapult impact and growth.
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Catapult Network welcomes new reports demonstrating Catapult impact
Enterprise Research Centre and Innovation Caucus recently shared new economic analysis that demonstrates the significant long-term value the Catapult Network brings to the UK economy in two reports commissioned by Innovate UK.
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Catapult Network welcomes new reports demonstrating Catapult impact
Enterprise Research Centre and Innovation Caucus recently shared new economic analysis that demonstrates the significant long-term value the Catapult Network brings to the UK economy in two reports commissioned by Innovate UK.
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Innovation is the key to ‘Shaping Future Skills’, say Catapult Network and partners at South Wales event.
The Catapult Network lends its weight to the challenge of transforming the availability of key skills within the UK in key areas of technological growth.
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Innovation is the key to ‘Shaping Future Skills’, say Catapult Network and partners at South Wales event.
The Catapult Network lends its weight to the challenge of transforming the availability of key skills within the UK in key areas of technological growth.
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Why science, innovation and technology must be at the heart of the UK’s plan for growth
New Chair of the Catapult Network, Katherine Bennett CBE, explains how joint collaboration between industry and Government can deliver on the UK's growth ambitions.
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2022: Catalysing the UK’s journey as an innovation nation
As the UK prepares to harness the power of technology to address its most critical national challenges, Catapults are primed to support the journey towards the UK becoming a science superpower and an innovation nation.
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