
Amidst a raft of packages to boost manufacturing, Vince Cable, the business secretary, today unveiled Britain’s first technology and innovation centre.
Led by the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre in Rotherham, part of the University of Sheffield, a consortium of seven existing research centres will form the technology and innovation centre, focusing on high-value manufacturing.- Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (Rotherham)
- Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (Rotherham)
- Manufacturing Technology Centre (Coventry)
- Advanced Forming Research Centre (University of Strathclyde)
- National Composite Centre (University of Bristol)
- Centre for Process Innovation (Wilton & Sedgefield)
- WMG (University of Warwick)
- an extra £7m for the Manufacturing Advisory Service (MAS) to specifically focus on supply chain development (this is in addition to the £50m already announced for the delivery of the MAS over the next three years.
- nine new university-based Centres for Innovative Manufacturing. These will receive £45m of government funding through the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, and will combine inventive research and business acument to develop innovative ideas.
- new fellowships offering up to five years of support for researchers who have the potential to be future manufacturing research leaders in their field.
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