Tech Nation Report 2021 – The future UK tech built
Now in its seventh year, the report highlights how the sector has changed, who the top performers were through the year, and the challenges and opportunities the UK faces as it navigates out of the pandemic and leaving the EU.
The AI Index Report Measuring trends in Artificial Intelligence
The AI Index Report tracks, collates, distils, and visualises data related to artificial intelligence. Its mission is to provide unbiased, rigorously vetted, and globally sourced data for policymakers, researchers, executives, journalists, and the general public to develop intuitions about the complex field of AI.
Food 2030 pathways for action – Research and innovation policy as a driver for sustainable, healthy and inclusive food systems
This publication frames the deployment phase of the European Commission’s Food 2030 initiative and is meant to guide future research and innovation policy reflections relevant to Horizon Europe, the Farm to Fork strategy and European Green Deal, and beyond.
Spotlight on Spinouts
The Royal Academy of Engineering has produced a report on Spinouts
UK Research and Innovation’s management of the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund
This report examines whether the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund has been set up in a way likely to optimise value for money. The report examines the establishment of the Fund, in particular whether it has attracted sufficient good-quality bids, whether the selection processes have been efficient and whether the budget is managed effectively and the approach to monitoring and evaluating the Fund’s performance, as well as its performance to date.
UK Innovation Report
This report provides a review of the UK’s industrial and innovation performance in a global context, drawing upon the latest available international indicators.
Evaluation of sector opportunities for Artificial Intelligence in Northern Ireland
This report brings together the findings of a sectoral foresight study of current and future opportunities of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Northern Ireland (NI). It was commissioned by Matrix to inform the AI Competence Centre (AICC) business case.
AI Roadmap
An independent report, carried out by the AI Council, providing recommendations to help the government's strategic direction on AI.
AI review: Transforming our world with AI
This UKRI AI review ’Transforming our world with AI’ sets out UKRI’s view of the opportunities for research and innovation in AI – artificial intelligence – in the UK.
Innovation, Sustainability & the Future of Healthcare
The studies included in this report show that the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies in the European healthcare setting presents a series of unique challenges that will require large, collaborative and transparent efforts crossing boundaries of profession and geography.
Northern Ireland Digital Dialogue and National Report 2020
TechUK's Northern Ireland Digital Dialogue brought together local leaders from across the public and private sectors on 13 October 2020 to discuss the impact of COVID-19 on Northern Ireland and how digital technology can support a levelled-up recovery.
Spotlight on Spinouts
The analysis in this report is based on Beauhurst’s data on 1,424 spinouts – both alive and dead – that have spun out or met one of Beauhurst’s tracking triggers since 2011.
A blueprint for digitally driven recovery from Covid-19
This report highlights the extent, pace and scale at which NW businesses have adopted new digital technologies and made more use of existing ones over the last year, and how significant this has been in terms of positively responding to the pandemic, creating new business models and opportunities, as well as retaining jobs.
Global AI Talent Report 2020
Taking AI from research to real-world impact is a long value chain that depends on a range of skill sets and experience. It is common to see people who can, and do, fill multiple roles as some of the rarer skills are in need across the value chain. Even so, this report's authors think it is useful to categorize and explore these roles separately to better understand what it takes to build and run AI solutions and what accessibility to that talent looks like.
Contribution of the pharmaceutical sector to Northern Ireland’s economy
The pharmaceutical industry plays an important role in Northern Ireland’s economy. It employs a significant number of people and has a track record of globally recognised research achievements to go with its valuable manufacturing base.
Network Effects – The innovation multipliers of international collaboration for cities and subnational governments
This research report reviews the innovation benefits for cities and subnational governments of international collaboration.
Technation Jobs and Skills Report 2020
Over the last three months, recruitment for tech jobs has quickly recovered from the inevitable slump during lockdown. In fact, according to Tech Nation’s new Jobs and Skills Report 2020, the number of advertised tech job vacancies increased by 36% between June and August.
Rethinking AI talent strategy as automated machine learning comes of age
Do companies still need to hire a large contingent of data scientists to build machine learning models or can AutoML reduce the demand for this elusive talent?
The Sustainability Trends Report 2020
The Sustainability Trends Report 2020 The Sustainability Trends Report 2020 explores key choices that governments, the private sector and communities face [...]
The Great Innovation Challenge: How challenge prizes can kick-start the British economy
In this paper, Nesta sets out how an ambitious programme of challenge prizes could play a vital role in the revitalised UK innovation funding system envisioned in the government’s R&D Roadmap.
Airspace 2050: Three Futures
Airspace 2050: Three Futures contains three alternative scenarios which might play out around the year 2050. These are challenging but plausible futures. They are not predictions, but envision potential outcomes arising from the call to action on climate change, from technological disruption and geopolitical change, from burdens put upon the regulatory system, and from changing demographics and attitudes.
UK Research and Development Roadmap
Over the coming months the UK government will develop the proposals in this Roadmap into a comprehensive R&D plan, working very closely with the devolved administrations where plans cover or impact on their devolved policy responsibilities.
OECD Skills Strategy Northern Ireland – Assessment and Recommendations
This report identifies opportunities and makes recommendations to reduce skills imbalances, create a culture of lifelong learning, transform workplaces to make better use of skills, and strengthen the governance of skills policies in Northern Ireland.
Are we really serious about securing enhanced productivity, through our people?
Written by Dr Peter Totterdill, and edited by Lesley Giles and Heather Carey, this paper explores how working and management practices can be transformed in order to tackle the productivity gap that has characterised the UK economy for more than a decade.