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Canada: Cultural spaces, museums and creative professionals

Open Access Government charts the Government of Canada’s policy priorities concerning arts and culture, focussing on the examples of supporting cultural space, museums and creative professionals.

Birmingham art-tech agency celebrates Bitcoin’s 10th birthday

Thomas Crown Art, the Birmingham based art-tech agency is set to merge cryptocurrencies and pieces of art to celebrated Bitcoin's 10th anniversary.

Halloween causes severe fear and confusion in dementia sufferers

Halloween is a fun time for many, dressing up, collecting as many sweets as possible and joining in on the community spirit. However, for dementia sufferers, Halloween can cause severe fear and confusion

Diabetes monitoring and drug delivery innovation fields: The scenario for big technology synergy

Cecilia Van Cauwenberghe from Frost & Sullivan’s TechVision Group provides a market perspective on the diabetes monitoring and drug delivery innovation fields and explains why these are a scenario for big technology synergy

Former EU Research Commissioner voices concerns over R&D focus

Máire Geoghegan-Quinn took to twitter to reach out to  research chiefs in order to share her concerns over keeping the EU's 2021-2027 R&D programme focused on excellence.

Can labour-market inequalities be reduced by negotiating at the company level?

Pierre Courtioux, Research Director at the Economics Research Centre (EDHEC) probes if labour-market inequalities can be reduced by negotiating at the company level

Turning buildings into power stations: The UK’s first energy-positive office

Dr Justin Searle at Swansea University, discusses low carbon affordable buildings and energy-positive structures.

UK employees lose six days a year from snoozing their alarms

New research from Bensons for Beds reveals the UK industries that are struggling to get out of bed in the morning, along with shocking figures on how much time they lose from snoozing their alarms

Drone training professionals discover sharp rise in women enrolling on UAV courses

RUSTA, which offers Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) approved National Qualified Entity (NQE) drone training courses, noticed an upsurge in women across the UK registering on its courses in the last 12 months

Listening to Infrastructure: Early warning systems for infrastructure deterioration

Dr Alister Smith, a UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Fellow based at Loughborough University, is developing novel infrastructure health monitoring technologies

Financing the low carbon economy: Heat networks

Meeting the UK’s legally binding climate change targets will require complete or near-complete decarbonisation of heat. This article will explain how heat networks could help to make this possible 

UK and Dutch trade relationship goes from strength to strength

UK and Dutch ministers announced new commercial agreements between the two countries at the UK-Netherlands Innovation Showcase event today

Mental capital and wellbeing at work

Professor Sir Cary Cooper, 50th Anniversary Professor of Organizational Psychology & Health at the University of Manchester, provides a fascinating overview of mental capital and wellbeing at work from the UK and European angle

Surging AI industry in the UK

A major report by Big Innovation Centre and Deep Knowledge Analytics places the UK in the third spot in the global rankings for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and it foresees it excelling in specific subsectors and areas in the coming years

How blockchain and smart contracts are impacting business functions

Jacqueline Watts, Senior Associate Solicitor at A City Law Firm, explains how blockchain and smart contracts are new technologies which have impacted the many business functions of different companies across various industries

EIC Pilot to invest €124 million in new high-risk innovative projects

The European Innovation Council (EIC) pilot will support 38 innovative projects to develop new ideas towards radically new future technologies

Identity theft a top concern for UK citizens

Leading security barometer from Unisys shows that UK citizens fear identity theft over other security concerns such as national security

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