British luxury car manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) is planning to invest GBP1.5bn to develop an all-new technically-advanced aluminum vehicle architecture in its future models. With this move, the company is seeking to offer an ...
UK government has collaborated with the county's automotive industry to make GBP1m investments in an advanced propulsion centre (APC) over the next ten years. Both the government and automotive industry will invest GBP500m each in the APC ...
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Plessey announced that samples of its GaN on silicon LED products are available. These entry level products are the first LEDs manufactured on 6-inch GaN on silicon substrates to be commercially available anywhere in the world. Plessey is ...
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Plessey today announced that samples of its Gallium Nitride (GaN) on silicon LED products are today available. These entry level products are the first LEDs manufactured on 6-inch GaN on silicon substrates to be commercially available ...
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Plessey Semiconductors Ltd of Plymouth, UK says that samples of its PLW111010 gallium nitride (GaN)-on-silicon LED products are now available. Picture: Plessey's new MAGIC GaN-on-Si LED product. The entry-level products are claimed ...
A Valley of Death blocks the way from laboratory to business, says the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee. "British entrepreneurs are being badly let down by a lack of access to financial support," says Andrew Miller MP, ...
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Business secretary Vince Cable acknowledges that engineering is central to building a strong economy. He was speaking following the publication of an influential new report by the Royal Academy of Engineering which estimates engineering ...
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The UK's education, training and technology sectors will be among the major areas of UK export growth over the next few years, claims business secretary Vince Cable - despite a forthcoming shortage of qualified computer scientists as fewer ...
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A Cornish pasty firm has secured a government investment of pound 1.5M, which it will use to expand its business and create 50 jobs. The government has invested pound 1.5M in Proper Cornish The investment came from the Business ...
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Of the world’s three largest toy companies, only two have women on their Board of Directors and one has none. In the US, Hasbro has Lisa Gersh and Tracy Leinbach while Mattel has Frances Ferguson, Andrea Rich and Kathy White Lloyd, ...
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Swansea University has welcomed the news that it will receive over half a million pounds from the UK government to take forward its innovative research, collaboration and entrepreneurship programme. The funding, which comes from the ...
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Chinese telecoms company Huawei has promised to spend pound 1.2bn in investment and procurement in the UK over the next five years. In a meeting with Prime Minister David Cameron, Ren Zhengfei, founder and CEO of Huawei, said the company ...
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The UK government has injected a second round of cash into its pound 25m Higher Apprenticeship Fund. The funding aims to develop 4,230 new Higher Apprenticeships in sectors including low-carbon engineering, space engineering, legal ...
Debenhams announced it is helping to boost the economy by ramping up its use of British manufacturers. The retailer is calling on UK suppliers to proactively get in touch so that it can bolster its domestic production,in a move that will ...
Japanese car manufacturer Honda is planning to invest $424.9m to build new models and engines at its Swindon plant in UK. As a part of the investment programme, Honda has launched new Honda Civic in last year and now extends to the Honda ...
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