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Looking Forward to a Year of Physics, R&D and Innovation
01 Jan 2005
Medical Manufacturers Look To Suppliers for Innovation The UK medical device market alone is worth an estimated ?5.8 billion. New research by the organisers of the Medical Device Technology Exhibition & Conference (MDT), suggests medical device manufacturers will spend significantly more in almost every supply area during 2005.
These spending plans are a result of the sector's heavy R&D agenda and its expansionist plans.
Suppliers will be crucial to the delivery of these plans. For instance, 70% of the medical device and IVD manufacturers studied would like more material innovation, 61% are looking for new developments in manufacturing and over 40% would like components and design companies to innovate more. As a result, over 81% are looking for new suppliers.
MDT takes place at the NEC, Birmingham, February 16 and 17, on the same two days that the Southern Manufacturing event (see page 7) is being held at Thorpe Park, Surrey.
www.mdtevents.com
Major UK Research Facility Marks 20 Years of Service For a generation, the ISIS facility at the CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory has had an enormous impact on the innovation of materials and manufacturing technology, and operates today with an annual budget of £27m.
Last month ISIS celebrated the 20th anniversary of its first production of neutrons, which are an extremely versatile probe used by researchers across all the scientific disciplines to understand the structure and behaviour of materials at the atomic and molecular level.
www.isis.rl.ac.uk
Latest DTI R&D Grants Won Earlier this month 56 projects, in seven 'priority technology areas', received £60 million funding from the DTI's Technology Strategy Board.
The funds were won through regional competitions in England. (Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland have their own initiatives).
The Technology Strategy Board, formed in October 2004, will determine priorities for £320 million DTI funding over the period 2005 to 2008 to support small and medium sized businesses investing in new and emerging technologies.
The seven priority technology areas considered critical to driving forward innovation and boosting the economy are: technologies to support environmentally-friendly transport; interenterprise computing; renewable technologies; sensor and control systems; bio processing; advanced composite materials and structures; disruptive technologies in electronics and displays.
Additional funding of £9m has also been awarded to establish knowledge transfer networks in these technology areas.
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