By 2020, companies will have shifted the majority of their R&D spending away from product-based offerings to software and service offerings, according to the 2016 Global Innovation 1000 Study from Strategy&, PwC’s strategy consulting business.

Doosan Enpure has moved to site scale plant trials of its sonixTM feedstock pre-treatment system for anaerobic digestion.

Leading engineering and public services provider Amey is installing state-of-the-art sensors into gullies in a trial aimed at preventing the flooding of roads.

A European funding programme is to invest more than €550 millon across 6 initiatives launched this month as part of the EU’s Horizon 2020 fund for researchers and business.

The Government is undertaking a survey of UK businesses to find out how they approach cyber security and learn more about the cyber security issues faced by industry.

A UK-led, EU-funded research project has significantly advanced robotics technology, developing a robotic system for in-situ repair and maintenance that makes work in hazardous environments easier and safer which could be on the market in three to five years.