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Green growth

The Green Growth Action group aims to ensure that the UK’s policies on low carbon, green technologies and renewable energy are innovation friendly and support sustainable economic growth. The action group will work with various stakeholders, facilitating and carrying out research to support better policies and long term plans.

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Moving towards a Green Economy
Prateek is giving a special address to the GovKnow event on the Green Economy

Wednesday, 15 May 2013

Disruptive Forces: Sustainability – Grand challenges and the innovation ecosystem
The Disruptive Forces series was built as an experiment, with the intention of testing the unique partner base as a microcosm for cross-sector information-sharing on emerging technologies, to co-design and pilot emergent ideas, and to investigate how these technological advancements can have broader impact through the innovation ecosystem. The topic for this second session will be to address key challenges in achieving sustainability and to highlight where emerging technologies and shifting m

Friday, 25 May 2012
10:00 - 12:00

Responsible Innovation: Solving more problems than we cause
Innovation is critical to global attempts to solve some of the problems of our age - from energy to food security, ageing to obesity. The UK’s economic prosperity particularly depends on innovation across markets, places and networks in this period of economic uncertainty, and the EU’s Innovation Nation programme puts it at the heart of EU industrial policy. However, there is a case to be made that some innovations can cause as many problems as they solve.

Tuesday, 03 April 2012
08:30 - 10:30

Related Blogs

Nuclear - Deal or No Deal
Following the announcement of the industrial strategy for the nuclear industry, Prateek looks at the long process it has taken to get new nuclear to a soon-to-be operational state.

Prateek Sureka
26 March 2013

Green Budget for a Green Economy?
Environmentally sustainable must always be fiscally sustainable”, was the message from the Chancellor at Budget 2012. Providing a boost to North Sea oil, gas extraction and a £3billion new field allowance west of Shetland will certainly create jobs in the energy sector, but what about businesses and jobs which specifically reduce carbon emissions?

Prateek Sureka
23 March 2012

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Birgitte Andersen talks about Catapult Centres in the Times Higher Education
Birgitte Andersen talks about Catapult Centres in the THE

Times Higher Education
15 June 2012