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Peter Clarke has recently published the Silicon 60: hot start-ups to watch.

There's an interesting side discussion asking "…

I attended a briefing in London in early January to hear plans from Government and TSB regarding the merging of 2 UK centric technology showcases: Technology World and Innovate.

The aim of the new combo is to create a premier event for trade and innovation networking. It's a mix of exhibition, trade show, seminar, workshop and keynotes formally making it - what is known as - "a…

This made me chuckle - hope it does the same for you!

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An engineer dies and reports to the pearly gates. St. Peter checks his dossier and says, “Ah, you’re an engineer — you’re in the wrong place.”

So the engineer reports to the gates of hell and is let in. Pretty soon, the engineer gets dissatisfied with the level of comfort in hell, and starts designing and building improvements. After a while, they’ve got air conditioning, flush toilets, and escalators, which…

I was at an engineering employers event in London recently and was interested to hear the words of Juergen Maier from Siemens.

As part of his talk he stated that one of the reasons why engineering in the UK does not attract more talent is because it is not as highly regarded in our society as it should be... yes, it's that old chestnut again. I've heard this so many…

The UK skills agenda is always a hot topic for debate. I found this out first hand when I was asked to look at it from the electronics industry perspective (after many of NMI members made strong suggestions). Anecdotal evidence is not lacking however this is often not a good reason for making relatively sizeable investments hence we looked to gather data to help us understand 

the situation more fully. One area we looked at was UCAS data to view the uptake…