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Innovation centre is a first
Proposals published for £200 million network of technology and innovation centres In an effort to rebalance the economy and move away from the UK’s reliance on the financial industry, the government has invited organisations to register their interest in forming a technology and innovation centre focused on the area of high value manufacturing.
The centre will be the first of an elite national network of centres, to be established and overseen by the Technology Strategy Board, that will work in partnership with universities and businesses to help commercialise the results of research in specific technology areas where there are potential multi-billion pound global markets.
“We should be at the cutting edge of science, manufacturing and technology. And this innovation should be happening in towns and cities across the UK, creating opportunity for everyone, no matter where they live, said Deputy Prime Minster Nick Clegg.
The Technology Strategy Board has published a prospectus that will fast track the creation of a centre and outlines plans to establish a network of six to eight world-leading centres in total. It calls for business, academic and other interest groups to comment on the proposals and help shape how the centres will be developed. Sitting between the worlds of academia and of business, they will enable cutting-edge research to be pushed forward that can be swiftly turned into commercial opportunities.
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Stephen Bayley to chair annual design awards
Prominent design commentator and one of the founders of the Design Museum, Stephen Bayley, will chair of Jury for the Brit Insurance Design Awards 2011.
For more than 30 years, Stephen Bayley’s books, articles and exhibitions have helped frame the contemporary idea of ‘design’. Together with Terence Conran he created The Boilerhouse Project in the V&A. He then went on to become the first director of the Design Museum and is now a celebrated, outspoken broadcaster and critic.
As ED went to press the seven category
award winners were announced. These include the Open Air Library, Magdeburg by Karo Architekten, Germany; Uniqlo +J Autumn/Winter ’10 by Jil Sander for Uniqlo, Japan; Branca by Industrial Facility, Sam
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Hecht, Kim Collin and Ippei Matsumoto, Italy; Homemade is Best by Forsman & Bodenfors for Ikea, Sweden; Flipboard by Mike McCue and Evan Doll, USA; Plumen 001, by Hulger and Samuel Wilkinson, UK; and Barclays Cycle Hire, by Transport for London, UK.
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