The UK’s renewable energy sector continues to adjust to the post-subsidy environment.

“Without imagination, science is nothing,” said self-proclaimed eccentric, the late, great Troy Hurtubise. Unfortunately for this 1998 winner of the Ig Nobel Prize for Safety Engineering, Troy’s weird and wonderful ideas weren’t always supported by hard scientific fact.

Imagine how much more productive we’d all be if we didn’t keep hitting the snooze button in the morning. A serial offender, the winner of 2005’s Ig Nobel Economics Prize, Gauri Nanda, was regularly late for classes at the MIT Media Lab until she invented the perfect solution.

Recent technology advances have spawned new software systems to assist in product maintenance in Manufacturing.

In the 10 years we’ve been in business, we are proud to have helped some of the UK’s most innovative companies to go on to do even greater things…

Newspaper articles, TV appearances and radio slots are increasingly important ways for academics to communicate their research to wider audiences.

Harnessing research and development tax credits and investing in innovation could unlock significant opportunities for manufacturers, as specialists at Jumpstart point out.

The amount of tax HMRC is disputing with big businesses over research and development (R&D) tax credit claims has nearly quadrupled in the past year.

Many firms in the automotive sector are likely to be eligible for some form of tax relief on their R&D activities. Here’s how to make a successful – and potentially very lucrative – claim.