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How we can win the AI race
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James Stewart, Posted on:
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AI and data, Business environment, Grand Challenges, Ideas, People, Productivity
If you ask the public what they associate AI in 2018 they are now just as likely to say their virtual assistants as they are robots.
As Business Secretary Greg Clark says in KPMG’s new report, ‘How the UK can win the AI race’ – an explosion of AI is about to define this century - and if we act now, the UK can lead from the front. We applaud the government’s move to identify AI as one of the UK’s four Grand Challenges.
Rethinking retirement to meet the Ageing Society Grand Challenge
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Chris Knight, Posted on:
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Ageing society, Grand Challenges, Ideas, People, Places
Working alongside the panel of independent experts on the Longevity Science Panel, Legal & General has been doing a great deal of deep thinking on ageing; from pensions to housing and long-term care to mid-life MOTs.
Universities as a facilitator for place-based Industrial Strategies
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Dr Peter O’Brien, Posted on:
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Grand Challenges, Ideas, Infrastructure, People, Places, Productivity
Earlier this year, YU’s Board of Vice-Chancellors agreed that YU should seek to widen and deepen the collective role of universities in place-based development and the Industrial Strategy.
Recently, YU held a roundtable in Leeds with Universities UK (UUK), which brought together universities, local enterprise partnerships (LEPs), combined authorities, government and national research funding agencies.
Tees Valley powers up for Local Industrial Strategy
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Ben Houchen, Posted on:
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Business environment, Good work, Ideas, Infrastructure, People, Places
As the Mayor of the region that is home to some of the UK’s leading businesses in offshore renewables, chemicals and clean energy generation, it is clear to me that the Tees Valley is best suited to the challenge of maximising the advantages of the global shift towards clean growth.
Universities' aerospace collaboration takes off at Farnborough International Airshow
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Professor Iain Gray, Posted on:
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Clean growth, Future of mobility, Good work, Ideas, Infrastructure, People, Productivity
This week at the Farnborough International Airshow we have seen some fantastic examples of British business and universities working together that have captured the imagination of the world. This shows what can be done when we combine the power of UK business with the research power of UK academia.
How artificial intelligence is helping us get on the Road to Zero
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Justin Ott, Posted on:
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AI and data, Business environment, Clean growth, Future of mobility, Grand Challenges, Ideas, Infrastructure, Places, Productivity, Strategy
The Industrial Strategy offers a compelling framework for the future. At Spark, we’re particularly excited by the focus on the Grand Challenges, as they link closely to our AI-based journey prediction solution for electric vehicles (EVs).
A design-led Industrial Strategy
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Sally Benton, Posted on:
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Business environment, Grand Challenges, People, Places, Productivity
Britain is a world leader in design. It is one of this country’s greatest strengths. Design is responsible for shaping the built environment, the digital world and the products and services we use and it is a centre of industrial change.
Helping smaller businesses grow through patient capital and the Industrial Strategy
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Keith Morgan, Posted on:
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Business environment, Grand Challenges, People, Places, Strategy
As the UK’s economic development bank, the mission of the British Business Bank is to make finance markets for smaller businesses work more effectively across the country.
Grand Challenges give new focus to stimulating local growth
Over the last 3 weeks, I have had the pleasure of chairing a series of roundtables with colleagues from across the country on the Industrial Strategy's Grand Challenges at this year's International Business Festival in Liverpool.
Showcasing virtual reality at the International Business Festival in Liverpool
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Jane McConnell and Mark Bridgeman, Posted on:
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Business environment, Ideas, People, Productivity
The 5 ‘foundations’ of the Industrial Strategy are relevant to how EON Reality operates. So it was a natural fit to demonstrate the latest VR and AR with public and private stakeholders from across the UK.