Next in our series on the aspects of innovation that may be eligible for tax relief, we turn our attention to efforts focused on R&D to “make things stronger.”
An enquiring mind, a determination to get to the bottom of a problem and a certain confidence in your abilities are all useful traits in a scientist. Astronomical arrogance, less so.
A word of advice to all you budding innovators out there: when you’re busy pushing the technological boundaries, don’t neglect the name of your trailblazing ‘baby’.
It doesn’t matter how much money you throw at them; some science experiments just seem to progress frustratingly slowly, while others steam ahead with alarming stealth.
If ever there was a science experiment destined to attract superlatives, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European particle physics laboratory, CERN, near Geneva in Switzerland, is it.
The world’s largest and most powerful laser, California’s National Ignition Facility (NIF) is capable of focusing 192 giant laser beams onto a fusion target smaller than a peppercorn.
