Photonics Leadership Group targets new UK government funding
29 October 2018
At the latest Photonics Leadership Group meeting, held at Photonex, engagement with the UK government's Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund was top of the agenda
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UK photonics £12.9bn industry remains largely unacknowledged, report says
21 May 2018
UK photonics manufacturing remains a largely hidden industry despite contributing £12.9 billion per year to the economy and underpinning most of the products and services that we all use on a daily basis, a report remarks.
Construction begins for UK Electronics and Photonics Innovation Centre
11 April 2018
Construction has begun on a new £8 million electronics and photonics research centre in Torbay, in the South West of England
New UK Photonics centre to shine a light on healthcare
19 September 2017
Dr Tom Harvey, programme development manager for healthcare photonics at CPI, discusses the centre’s activities and how it will support the commercialisation of novel medical technologies
UK silicon photonics research gets £4.8m boost
13 July 2017
The UK’s Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) at the University of Southampton is set to receive £4.8 million to support the centre’s silicon photonics research
Photonics outstrips growth of UK economy
10 July 2017
The UK photonics sector is growing at twice the speed of the rest of the UK economy, according to new research carried out by the Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) and the Photonics Leadership Group (PLG)
UK parliament debates photonics industry
25 January 2017
On 25 January, a debate was held in UK parliament discussing the importance of adopting photonics technology in manuafcturing to improve domestic productivity
German photonics industry prepares for Brexit consequences
10 August 2016
Wenko Süptitz, head of German high-tech industry association, Spectaris discusses what companies in Germany and the UK should consider following the UK's decision to leave the European Union
