CONTENTS
10 Daresbury
Conference
News from UKSPA’s
latest Members’ event
12 Annual Report
A summary of the UKSPA
2017 annual report
15 UKSPA in Swansea
Looking forward to UKSPA’s
upcoming Members’ event
16
ScaleUp Britain
An interview with Sherry Coutu
CBE from the ScaleUp Institute
about making the UK the best
place in the world to scale
a business
20 Your Say
Smart Cities experts
speak their minds on
the intelligent future
46
The smart list
Ten of the most exciting new
smart technology innovations,
and the UK-based companies
bringing them to market
72
The Welsh Tech Dragons
You don’t need your own business
idea for the Alacrity Foundation to
help you become the next Welsh
high-tech start-up
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35 Enter the Dragon
A look at China’s new Torch
innovation precinct at
UNSW in Sydney, Australia
39 Power Up
Tim German of the Energy
Systems catapult explains
how you can help tackle
fuel poverty
42 The Power to
discover
Leveraging renewable
energy to reduce
the carbon footprint
of research
65 thinking big
The Science Industry
Partnership (SIP) is an
alliance of employers that
has taken ownership of the
skills needed to generate
innovation and growth and
increase productivity in the
science industries
69 gradmatch.com
How gradintelligence’s
Talent Matching Engine
applies university verified
sources to connect SME
employers with students
and recent graduates using
big data analysis