Ian Mundell

Sponsoring a start-up accelerator is an increasingly popular route for large companies to tap into the latest technologies and get preferential rights to in-license potential products

Scales to assess the likelihood of a new technology being accepted by consumers are helping to make sure innovators think about how their inventions will be received

Drawn by the generous terms of NATO’s Diana accelerator and mobilised by the war in Ukraine, start-ups in central and eastern Europe are opening up to adapting their technologies for use in defence

Moves to police the afterlife of satellites will open up the market for in-orbit servicing and removal. Meanwhile, the increasing risk of collisions is inspiring development of new space debris monitoring technologies

Forty new rare disease programmes entering the clinic over the next decade. This is the goal of a new collaboration between Oxford University and the Harrington Discovery Institute, which aims to put up to £200M into getting projects out academic labs and into clinical development  

Two scale-ups at the nexus between academia and industry are helping EIT Digital revise its masters’ programmes and keep pace with the fast-moving fields of cybersecurity and robotics

With plenty of start-ups to choose from, CEE business angels are increasingly comfortable putting their money into deep-tech

A supply chain for cultivating meat from cells in bioreactors is emerging, as start-ups develop technologies that will make it easier and cheaper to scale up production

UK companies can now get grants of up to €2.5M from the EIC Accelerator programme but are still excluded from its equity fund - and investments of up to €15M

As the EU’s 10-year graphene flagship project comes to an end, spin-offs and other start-ups in its orbit give their verdict on its achievements and look to maintaining momentum - as they search for continuing support