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.
The Missing £4 Billion – Making R&D work for the whole UK
The Missing £4 Billion - Making R&D work for the whole UK For many people and places across the UK, [...]
Industrial Strategy Council – Annual Report 2020
The Industrial Strategy Council is an independent non-statutory advisory group comprised of leading men and women from business, academia and civil society. This first Annual Report provides the Council’s independent assessment on the progress of the Industrial Strategy.
Is the UK getting innovation right?
This new study shows the public sees innovation as a vital tool in tackling major challenges facing the UK – both economic and social.
Innovation Brokerage – Enabling collaborations through emerging digital tech
This report examines the phenomenon of ‘digital innovation brokerage’ that aims to connect ideas, people, organisations, and communities through digital technologies.
Skills for Immersive Experience Creation
At a time of unprecedented growth, this report sets out a comprehensive understanding of the skills, the gaps and the ways to address these that are vital to the growth of the immersive experience production sector.
Life Sciences 2030 Skills Strategy
This report tells us that the Life Sciences sector has the potential to create approximately 133,000 jobs over the next 10 years, and that digital and computational skills, statistical literacy, leadership and inter-disciplinary working are essential to its continued success.
Manufacturing the Future Workforce
The workforce crisis in UK manufacturing is well known. There is an acute skills gap that prevents manufacturers from successfully exploiting new technologies. This report provides a blueprint for the way forward.
Study into the development of digital education in Primary Schools in NI
The Digital Education in Primary Schools Baseline Study was developed and overseen by representatives from all the Initial Teacher Education providers in Northern Ireland, under the auspices of UCETNI (The Universities Council for the Education of Teachers NI).
The immersive economy in the UK 2019
This report, co-authored by Immerse UK and Digital Catapult, provides an overview of the scale, nature and economic value of the virtual, augmented and mixed reality ecosystem, its key drivers and barriers.
Lawtech: a comparative analysis of legal technology in the UK and in other jurisdictions
A comparative analysis of public, private and third sector accelerators to lawtech innovation and adoption in the UK and in other jurisdictions. This study is based on data available up to August 2019.
Why Don’t More Young Women Study Computing?
This CCEA research paper examines the presently low levels of participation of female students in computing related subjects in NI, attempting to understand why fewer young women study these subjects, and establish various ways in which their participation might be encouraged and thus their overall entry numbers at school increased.
Evidencing the Bioeconomy
This report presents findings around growth and productivity based on a comprehensive review of the literature and interviews with selected academic and industry experts in the bioeconomy of the United Kingdom.
Innovation in Europe
This discussion paper suggests five paths for Europe to regain its competitive edge, not by trying to play catch-up while hindered by fragmentation and lack of scale, but by changing the game to build on its strengths.
Lay of the Land
The RSA Food, Farming and Countryside Commission Northern Ireland Inquiry produced this report which sets out the context of the inquiry, its findings, some signposts to the future, and some recommendations for the way ahead.
Reinventing Construction: A route to higher productivity
In this report, the McKinsey Global Institute and the McKinsey Capital Projects & Infrastructure Practice examine the root causes of poor productivity growth in the construction industry, explore practical ways to improve the situation, and discuss the beginnings of a shift in parts of the sector toward a system of mass production, standardization, prefabrication, and modularization—a production system—that has the potential to boost productivity by five to ten times, depending on the sector.
20 Tools for Innovating in Government
This handbook is a digest of 20 tools that are proven to help innovation flourish inside government, based on Nesta's work over more than a decade in UK local and central government, as well as with more than 30 international governments.
Unpicking the productivity narrative in UK manufacturers
The aim of the project was to move the productivity conversation forward, away from the economists, politicians and statisticians, and into the workplace by engaging with employees in manufacturing companies
Europe AgriFood Tech Investing Report 2018
In this inaugural European food tech and agtech startup report in collaboration with F&A Next, Agfunder details the $1.6bn of funding across 421 deals. While this was on par with the total in 2017, there was 23% growth in the number of deals and the majority of activity took place at the earliest stages.
Agricultural Robotics: The Future of Robotic Agriculture
Agricultural Robotics: The Future of Robotic Agriculture The recent commitment of a £90million investment by the government (Transforming Food Production [...]
Preparing for a changing world
This document builds on POST’s previous publication, Topics of Interest 2018 and represents evidence gathered between May 2018 and April 2019. Topics included consist of areas of change with a larger volume of evidence attached that are likely to have significant impact, as these are most likely to be of most interest to Parliament.
Gender Diversity in AI Research
Lack of gender diversity in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) workforce is raising growing concerns, but the evidence base about this problem has until now been based on statistics about the workforce of large technology companies or submissions to a small number of prestigious conferences.