The publication of a new study commissioned by the Government Office for Science (GOS) earlier this year highlighted the East of England as a hotspot for biotechnology adoption and commercialisation.  The study titled ‘Life Sciences Beyond Human Health - A...

The city’s booming biotech sector has welcomed a new addition. Revvity, Inc. - specialists in life sciences and diagnostics - have opened a centre focusing on genomic insights for drug discovery and development. Genomics is the study of human genes and...

R&D Tax Credits have been part of the tax legislation for more than 20 years. They have gone through various changes over that period of time and that has never been more true than right now. Research and Development Tax...

British Patient Capital has invested £20m in local deep-tech and life sciences businesses, through the Cambridge Innovation Capital (CIC) Fund. CIC is a venture investor backing and building category-leading deep tech and life sciences companies. It manages over £1/2 billion...

New university ARU Peterborough and inventors of LCD 3D printing Photocentric have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to explore joint research projects, develop apprenticeships and continue professional development (CPD) routes. Photocentric is moving into the new £16.7m Manufacturing and Materials...

Age Care Technologies, the lead partner in research carried out by Suffolk’s Integrated Care Academy, has won the 2021 World Summit for the Information Society Prize for Innovation in Healthy Ageing. ACT won the prestigious award after seeing off competition...

It has been rubbish hasn’t it, but there’s still time for a Christmas Bonus! Don’t let the opportunity pass your business by for another year. 2020 should have been a decent year; it was the start of new decade; we...

A product launch is always a fantastic opportunity for a company to celebrate their success. However, this year it’s a bit different, you won’t be doing a hard launch on a stage at a fantastic business exhibition with 100s of...

It could be a sketch from Fawlty Towers, but it isn’t! It’s happening right here, right now. There has been a lot of new acronyms flying around these last few months, but with new acronyms come new challenges. The rapid...

Just because we are in lockdown, doesn’t mean you can’t be innovating. It just means you’ve been having to do things a little bit differently, a bit like the Government. You can’t fault them for the Innovative ways they are...

On 1st April 2020 Research and Development Tax Relief and R&D Tax Credits will be 20 years old and we thought we should be celebrating that fact. It was the brainchild of Gordon Brown as a way to help boost...

Just because we are in lockdown, doesn’t mean you can’t be innovating. It just means you’ve been having to do things a little bit differently, a bit like the Government. You can’t fault them for the Innovative ways they are...

It’s the start of a new decade and with that comes the chance to have a fresh look at everything that is happening in your business. It is likely to be the most active decade for innovation that the world...

Everyone involved in Research & Development Tax Credits will tell you it’s been a busy year for HMRC, with delays in the processing of claims over the summer hitting an unprecedented nearly four months between submission and repayment. Whether...