28 Mar, 2024 Invention Competition for Farmers By Pamela Bryer There is common misconception that inventions (and by association, patents) are the exclusive domain of high-tech enterprises. However,...
29 Feb, 2024 Ban on NGT plant patents - bad idea right? By Gareth Williams Following on from my colleague Georgia's earlier article on the European Parliament's proposals to ban patents for plants obtained by New...
23 Jan, 2024 My hovercraft is full of eels By Gareth Williams As a resident of the Island of Eels in the East Anglian Fens, barely a day goes by without seeing some reminder of the former importance...
08 Dec, 2023 50 Technologies to shape the future By Gareth Williams An absolutely fascinating read, this report from Innovate UK sets out technologies which might be expected to disrupt, innovate, and...
06 Dec, 2023 Project Funding from the European Space Agency - ESA - for any sector! By Robert Carpmael I attended a fascinating event on Monday 4th December in which The Rail Innovation Group , Network Rail, the Department for Transport and...
26 Oct, 2023 Eastern Agri-Food Innovation Launchpad open for funding applications By Gareth Williams Food security and the environmental impact of agriculture are very hot topics at the moment, and companies and research institutes from...
17 Oct, 2023 Preparing for National Engineering Day on 1 November 2023 By Robert Carpmael Despite being a patent attorney by profession, and thus working in the legal space, I am also a civil engineering graduate. Realising...
29 Sep, 2023 Defra's Farming Futures Automation and Robotics competition winners announced By Robert Carpmael In the Farming Innovation Programme's 17th Competition since October 2021, 19 winners have been announced as the recipients of a share of...
26 Sep, 2023 Luminescent GMO plants approved for sale in the US By Gareth Williams Many fungi exhibit natural bioluminescence. The lab of Karen Sarkisyan at the MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences published a paper...
07 Sep, 2023 UK rejoins Horizon and Copernicus programmes By Marks & Clerk In a boost to UK research that will be welcomed, not just by scientists based in the United Kingdom, but by research groups across...
23 Aug, 2023 Realising a green energy system By Robert Carpmael The UK is one of the shining lights on wind energy. According to the article below, "wind power supplies more than a quarter of the UK’s...
15 Jun, 2023 Automated tomato harvesting tool designed by AI language model By Lara Sibley An interesting article looking at the use of ChatGPT in the engineering field, to design an automated harvesting tool. The use of AI in...