UKSPA Breakthrough Issue 3 SPA03.ebook_hr | Page 6

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 6 | U K S PA B r e ak t h r o u g h | W I N TER 2 0 17 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