This library is a collection of documents that the MATRIX panel and secretariat have used in their research. If you are looking for reports that MATRIX has produced, please visit our Reports section. Click on the subjects below to refine your search.
Inspiring Growth
Skills
The CBI/Pearson Education and Skills Survey provides a mine of evidence on what employers seek from the young people who are leaving education and setting out in their careers.
Precision Medicine in Northern Ireland
Life & Health Sciences
In this paper we present a snapshot of how Northern Ireland is already proactively involved in precision medicine development, how it is primed to expand this contribution, and why increasing numbers of national and global organisations are partnering with Northern Ireland to realise the full benefits precision medicine can deliver.
Manufacturing a solution to the productivity crisis
Advanced Manufacturing
The UK has a productivity problem. The size of the problem is well understood, even if the exact causes are not.
Creating value from embodied knowledge
Advanced Manufacturing
The link between advanced manufacturing technologies and innovation
Deloitte Media Consumer Survey 2015
ICT Digital
This year marks the ninth annual Deloitte Media Consumer Survey, presenting views on the major trends that are impacting the media landscape.
Reindustrialising Scotland for the 21st Century
Advanced Manufacturing
This report sets out how the economic policy levers that would be available with independence could be used to rebalance and reindustrialise the Scottish economy.
UK Growth Opportunities for the 2020s – 2012 Refresh
Advanced Manufacturing
Technology and Innovation Futures is a forward look at a range of developments that have the potential to support sustained economic growth in the UK over the next 20 years.
The Future of Manufacturing
Advanced Manufacturing
This report – involving some 300 leading business people, experts and policy makers from 25 countries – sets out a vision of manufacturing that is very different to what we recognise today.
New and advanced materials
Advanced Manufacturing
This review considers the future trends of new and novel materials in terms of three broad industrial and societal needs: sustainability and materials security, materials for energy and high value markets.
Smart Specialisation (RIS3) Cohesion Policy 2014-2020
Advanced Manufacturing
The new rules and legislation governing the next round of EU Cohesion Policy investment for 2014-2020 have been formally endorsed by the Council of the European Union in December 2013. This factsheet is one in a series highlighting key elements of the new approach.
Eight Great Technologies – Advanced Materials
Advanced Manufacturing
This 2014 report analyses the worldwide patent landscape for technology directed towards advanced materials.
International public sector strategies & roadmaps: A case study in advanced materials
Advanced Manufacturing
This report reviews recently published international public sector strategies, roadmaps and initiatives related to advanced materials research and innovation.
Materialising a brighter future
Advanced Manufacturing
In this report, the Technology & Advanced Engineering Group highlight the most attractive opportunities they have identified for Scotland within the area of Advanced Materials.
Open Data Strategy for Northern Ireland 2015-18
ICT Digital
This strategy will put in place public/private governance structures and a shared platform to deliver open data through NIDirect.
BIS: Open Data Strategy 2014-2016
ICT Digital
This strategy sets out how the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) and partner organisations intend to meet the 5 G8 Open Data Charter principles that the UK government signed up to in June 2013.
Strategic Skills Assessment for the Digital Economy
ICT Digital
The SSA for the Digital Economy defines the contributions of digital skills to society and the economy.
Information Economy: Economic Estimates 2013
ICT Digital
The Information Economy Economic Estimates report published in October 2013 provides economic and employment estimates for the Information Economy as defined by The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS).
Digital Life 2025
ICT Digital
A canvassing of 2,558 experts and technology builders about where we will stand by the year 2025 finds striking patterns in their predictions.
Delivering Digital Infrastructure
ICT Digital
The report discusses the steps necessary to keep digital infrastructure improving at a rate that will allow the growth and development of a vibrant global digital economy in the near and medium term.
Smaller, Better, Faster, Stronger
ICT Digital
This report looks ahead to the second half of this decade, and considers the big changes that will be needed for government to make the most of the opportunities presented by technology, data and the internet.
Eight Great Technologies
ICT Digital
In this 2013 paper, David Willetts makes an important contribution to this debate – setting out eight great technologies in which Britain is or can be global leaders.
Make or Break: The UK’s Digital Future
ICT Digital
The House of Lords Select Committee on Digital Skills published its report, 'Make or Break: The UK’s Digital Future', which warns that the UK is not addressing its significant skills shortage and the incoming Government of 2015 urgently needs to resolve this.
The Times UK Manufacturing Supplement
Advanced Manufacturing
This Times supplement has a good summary of current economic indicators, with some surprising positives and expected concerns.
The Future of Employment
AI, ICT Digital
This report examines how susceptible jobs are to computerisation.
Manufacturing Britain’s Future
Advanced Manufacturing
The report sets out how the 4th industrial revolution is upon us, and how, in the global battle for dominance, innovative firms can take the lead and help position Britain as the manufacturing and technology hub of Europe.
Growing Social Innovation in Northern Ireland
Social Economy
This 2014 report looks at social innovation in Northern Ireland.
InnovateUK Delivery Plan 2014/15
ICT Digital
The InnovateUK delivery plan explains what they are doing to achieve this during the financial year beginning April 2014.
The Atlas of ICT Activity in Europe
ICT Digital
The European ICT Poles of Excellence (EIPE) research project investigated the issues of growth, jobs and innovation, which have become the main priorities of the European Union’s growth strategy programme ‘Europe 2020’.
Ofcom: Communications Market Report on Northern Ireland
ICT Digital
This 2014 report contains statistics and analysis of the Northern Ireland communications sector and is a reference for industry, stakeholders and consumers.
NISP Connect Knowledge Economy Report
ICT Digital
The 2014 Northern Ireland Knowledge Economy Index tracks the health of the Northern Ireland innovation economy by comparing data year-on-year, comparison to other regions and monitoring availability of capital.
Big Data Analytics
ICT Digital
In 2014 the Tech Partnership and SAS UK issued the third annual report into the big data skills gap in the UK economy.
The Stratification of Disease for Personalised Medicines
Life & Health Sciences
This paper is a five year update and progress report on the original ABPI 2009 White Paper which explored how public and private bodies engaged in biomedical research in the UK could work together to realise the significant benefits to the healthcare system and UK plc that will accrue by accelerating the development and adoption of stratified medicine.