Edinburgh-based research and Development (R&D) tax credit experts, Jumpstart, have appointed Chris Anderson as their new sales director.

We look at the key trends and R&D potential in upcoming cutting edge automobile technology.

Jumpstart has just returned from exhibiting at Advanced Engineering 2017, the UK’s largest annual gathering of engineering professionals.

Jumpstart’s experts don’t just understand the tax rules, they understand the science, as Bryce Wilcock reports.

It’s official! According to the latest figures from HMRC, more and more companies are now benefiting from the Government’s R&D tax credits scheme. What’s even better news for SMEs is that they’re leading the charge, with an impressive 30% hike in the number of claims submitted in 2012-13 compared to 2011-12.

Today’s western economies are no longer the place of grimy smokestacks and oily rags. These have long gone, and the UK, like many other countries, has gone through a period of significant deindustrialisation in recent decades.

One of the UK’s leading R&D tax relief firms has opened its first office in the West Midlands and is promising to help engineering firms and manufacturers unlock an extra £4.5m.

Jumpstart, one of the UK’s leading R&D tax relief specialists, has welcomed the contents of the Industrial Strategy Commission’s report – itself a response to the UK government’s consultation on the Industrial Strategy Green Paper.

EEF, the manufacturers’ organisation, has announced a new partnership deal with leading R&D tax relief specialist, Jumpstart, to realise additional funding for reinvestment in manufacturing in the East of England.