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Morag Brown

Senior Innovation Policy Officer for SIN China

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28th September 2017 Beijing, China

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by Morag Brown

Senior Innovation Policy Officer for SIN China

Sensors for just about everything

Fibre optic cables with acoustic sensing that can be laid alongside railways or oil and gas pipelines to detect faults or security threats; lasers that can detect different types of gases and pollutants with very high precision; sensors that measure water loss across the skin barrier that can be used in cosmetics or diagnostics; sensors […]

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30th September 2016 Beijing, China

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by Morag Brown

Senior Innovation Policy Officer for SIN China

Innovation is GREAT: the UK makes an impression as Country of Honour at Pujiang Innovation Forum

If I had to sum up the work of SIN China over the past couple of weeks in one word, it would be ‘monumental’ – referring to both the scale of the programme we ran, and the scale of the opportunity it demonstrated for the UK to work with China on innovation. The UK was […]

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9th August 2016 Beijing, China

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by Morag Brown

Senior Innovation Policy Officer for SIN China

An afternoon with Nobel laureate Sir Andre Geim

Last week we had the honour of hosting Sir Andre Geim, UK Nobel laureate, at the Embassy for a press session with Chinese media. As you may know, Andre Geim is the University of Manchester professor famous for winning the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics together with Konstantin Novoselov for his work on graphene, the […]

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13th July 2016 Beijing, China

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by Morag Brown

Senior Innovation Policy Officer for SIN China

Business-university collaboration: driving innovation in the UK and China

What are the best models for universities and industry to work together to drive innovation? And how can they work together successfully across borders? These were some of the questions addressed by the China-UK Symposium on Innovation Driven Development with Business-University Collaboration that I and other SIN colleagues attended in Beijing last week. The Symposium […]

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15th December 2015 Beijing, China

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by Morag Brown

Senior Innovation Policy Officer for SIN China

Breaking down barriers

I am always struck, when I attend one of the many workshops that we fund, by the immense value of getting the right people in a room together. Whoever they may be, when you put some Chinese experts on something in a room with some British experts on something, the magic starts to happen. Let […]

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About Morag Brown

I’m Morag, based in Beijing as Senior Innovation Policy Officer for SIN China. My role involves research and reporting on innovation policy, facilitating UK-China innovation partnerships and developing the team’s…

I’m Morag, based in Beijing as Senior Innovation Policy Officer for SIN China. My role involves research and reporting on innovation policy, facilitating UK-China innovation partnerships and developing the team’s strategic communications. I’ve previously worked in the Embassy’s Visa Section and Communications Section, and enjoy yoga, photography and Chinese food.

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