22nd November 2016
Bangalore, India
I arrived in India after an exciting few days at the Innovate 2016 event in Manchester, co-hosted by Innovate UK and the Department for International Trade. Cities of the future were an important theme of the event, showcasing UK innovation. Panel sessions and presentations covered topics ranging from urban living to autonomous transport, and digital […]
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12th July 2016
Bangalore, India
The UK and Make in India – ‘a recipe for success?’ As a young boy in London I grew up watching my father spending almost every Saturday cooking curry in our kitchen. I eagerly watched the clock tick down until dinner-time when I could finally see what my father had made. Little did I know […]
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7th June 2016
Mumbai, India
Earlier this month, I joined the UK Science & Innovation Network as Adviser. I’m based in the British Deputy High Commission, Mumbai. It’s been a few weeks now since I started and I’ve already made peace with Mumbai’s hectic pace. One of the themes I will be exploring this year is precision medicine. It’s an […]
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11th January 2016
Houston, USA
This blog is the final blog in a three-part series on the UK Space Sector. (A Space Blogyssey Pt. 1 & A Space Blogyssy Pt. 2) It is hard to believe that we are almost 60 years away from the first age of space exploration, marked by the launch of Sputnik in 1957. As the […]
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11th December 2015
New Delhi, India
The end of November saw the much anticipated launch of a joint funding call on Agri-Food. This call is funded by Newton-Bhabha – our five year £50 million joint programme with India. Under Newton-Bhabha, Innovate UK, the UK Research Councils and India’s Department of Biotechnology (DBT) plan to invest £10 million on developing joint industrial […]
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19th January 2015
New Delhi, India
The intricate world of supply chains of several foods from field to plate and the relationships between food, health and environment gets all the more fascinating if one does a comparative analysis of two countries’ food systems. This is what we attempted to do during the final quarter of the previous year with two scoping […]
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25th March 2013
New Delhi, India
A whirlwind 3 day trip to the UK resulted in an exciting development – a UK India Programme of Co-operation (POC) on joint industrial research has been signed (see our earlier press release). This is an agreement between India’s Department of Science and Technology (DST) and the UK’s Technology Strategy Board (TSB) to support innovative […]
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