The Government announced its new Digital Strategy this week and it is heartening to see that there is acknowledgment of the growing importance of regional tech ecosystems with the government predicting that regional ecosystems could contribute an additional £41.4bn to GVA by 2025.
These are the five things that will help new freelances create a sustainable business that gives them freedom, joy and money as they help shape their industry.
There’s been much talk about the Great Resignation, with workers across sectors resigning en masse from their jobs in early 2021. The tech and finance industries were reported to have been hit hardest, but despite similar employment trends being seemingly apparent across marketing, advertising, visual arts, and more, the creative industries were conspicuous by their absence from reports. Driven by the pressing need to fill this absence, we ran surveys with the aim of better understanding the cause and effect of The Great Resignation in the creative industries and cultural sector.
The NGO Hackers Without Borders (HWB) has just signed a promising partnership with CrowdSec, the editor of an open-source cyber defence solution.
The UK is home to one of the most dissatisfied workforces in Europe following a two percent fall in employee engagement levels over the last year, according to Gallup’s latest State of the Global Workplace Report. Employee engagement among UK workers has declined steadily over the last decade.
Minister of Industry, Trade, and Tourism, Reyes Maroto, has inaugurated the Tourism & Hospitality Forum at DES 2022. More than 336 exhibiting firms, 600 international experts, and 250 accredited media have gathered in the capital of Malaga to discuss the digital transformation of companies and administrations.
Spirea Limited, a Cambridge company created to advance a new generation of antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) therapeutics, has announced that it has secured funding of £2.4m with investments from high-profile UK and US investors. Spirea will use the funds to initiate its pipeline of superior and differentiated ADCs in the treatment of solid tumours where there is a high unmet need.
Thousands of financial and business professionals are set to showcase the valuable role the finance and investment sector can play in the fight against climate change at the leading UK sustainability event, Reset Connect London. Taking place at London’s ExCeL on 28th – 29th June 2022, Reset Connect London has been established to bridge the gap between sustainability change-makers, business leaders, government, and funding. We caught up with Duncan Reid, Co-founder of Reset Connect London to find out more.
Proximie has raised $80m in a Series C equity financing. The investment follows a year in which Proximie saw a significant increase in its Total Contracted Value, supported over 13,000 surgeries, and expanded their global footprint to 100 countries.
Thousands of financial and business professionals are set to showcase the valuable role the finance and investment sector can play in the fight against climate change at the leading UK sustainability event, Reset Connect London.
It’s no secret that staff shortages throughout the NHS are widespread, spanning across a spectrum of disciplines. According to The King’s Fund, urgent action is required to tackle a vicious cycle of shortages and increased pressures on staff, which has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
In today’s world, it is commonplace for employees to regularly change jobs. Indeed, the average UK employee changes jobs 12 times throughout their career. And with people changing jobs so regularly and the advent of autoenrollment, employees often accumulate and lose track of multiple pension pots, which could threaten many people’s long-term financial wellness.
Just around the corner now, The Innovation Faceoff to find the most disruptive tech set to revolutionise business travel is returning to Business Travel Show Europe on the 29th and 30th June at the ExCeL London and six of this year’s nine finalists are startups.
The UK authority on advanced digital technology, Digital Catapult, has given 10 companies the opportunity to trial and experiment with potentially game-changing prototype cybersecurity technology through its Digital Security by Design Technology Access Programme.
Metaverse rock band The Meta Daisies has released its debut single and accompanying meta-cinematic ‘Radiance’, propelling the music industry forward into a new virtual era. Imagine your favourite rock stars from the past being reborn, bringing that epic music and energy to a new generation – this is The Meta Daisies.
Diversity is crucial to the tech industry’s development and success, and female representation is an important piece of the puzzle. One Deloitte Insight analysis predicted that female representation in technical roles in large technology companies would increase by 0.6% from 2019 to 2022.
Globally, health and wellbeing statistics are very different for men compared to women. For overseas employees, the contrast may be even more stark, with different host countries having different attitudes to men’s health.
Banks and big business are racing to get behind sustainable frameworks as the world sets its sights on net zero. But should startups feel the same urgency too?
Three quarters of business owners (75%) wish they had a core business checklist before launching their business to boost their early success, according to new research from entrepreneur launchpad Start My Business.
For a long time now, we have acknowledged that there is a huge gap and problem around funding and investment not going to a represented and diverse business owners and founders. But what action is being taken?
