Research and development on next-generation 5G and 6G wireless technology and telecoms security is to be ramped up as part of a £110 million government investment.

The UK is leading a global agreement to make green technologies cheaper and more accessible around the world, while also creating green jobs for generations both at home and abroad.

Government ministers visited Spaceport Cornwall on the 8th November 2022 ahead of the first satellite launch from UK soil later this month.

Business Secretary Grant Shapps has announced a £95 million boost to develop the super-materials of the future, supporting research and innovation in advanced materials at the Henry Royce Institute, headquartered in Manchester.

A new state-of-the-art UK Telecommunications Lab will be based in Solihull, creating dozens of high-skilled jobs for the region, Tech Minister Damian Collins has announced.

3D printing at record scale, AI to make steelmaking more productive and using big data to make century-old baking machinery more efficient are among the projects awarded a combined £13.7m in Government funding to help improve energy efficiency, productivity, and sustainability of manufacturing processes.

A new wave of fusion energy experiments on the UK Atomic Energy Authority’s record-breaking Joint European Torus (JET) started this month.

The government’s tech scale-up programme, the Tech Rocketship Awards, has announced its shortlisted finalists.

Nearly £50m in government funding is being made available today (23 September 2022) to support the future of British industry.

Cutting-edge nuclear technology projects across the UK have received government backing to help develop the next generation of nuclear reactors.

The new telecoms security regulations will be among the strongest in the world and will provide much tougher protections for the UK from cyber threats which could cause network failure or the theft of sensitive data.

School children from Waverley Junior Academy, near Rotherham, have combined science with art to create a fusion energy machine of the future.

Government plans to fire up innovation in 5G and 6G as UK and South Korea launch telecoms technology partnership.

Science Minister George Freeman has launched a new Plan for Space Sustainability to improve the UK’s sustainable use of space.

Eight winning projects will receive a share from the £4 million Digital Connectivity Infrastructure Accelerator (DCIA) to explore how digital software can help simplify local authority processes when telecoms operators request access to publicly-owned buildings and curb side infrastructure.

Future spaceflight will be made easier and cheaper, following a partnership with the US to help cut red tape and boost opportunities in the UK, signed by the Transport Secretary this week in Washington.

Energy Minister Greg Hands co-chaired the first meeting of the country’s first ever dedicated group for creating UK green job opportunities.

The government has committed £1.6 billion to expand the UK’s charging network and plans to have 300,000 public EV charge points by 2030 – five times the number of fuel pumps on the road today.

The UK Government has announced a 5G project, called 5G Create, which is funded by its Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and has been developed to enhance the various services and digital innovation of Liverpool.

The Government needs to better coordinate its artificial intelligence (AI) policy and the use of data and technology by national and local government. There is also now a clear consensus that ethical AI is the only sustainable way forward. The time has come for the Government to move from deciding what the ethics are, to how to instil them in the development and deployment of AI systems.