On BBC Radio 4 Today at 09:00: Inventor and educational endower Dr John C. Taylor (Dr John C Taylor OBE FREng) talks about being an inventor with Jim Al-Khalili (himself now a Fellow of the The Royal Society it seems) #TheLifeScientific bbc.in/2IR1Y4Y

The European Commission proposes its most ambitious Research & Innovation programme – Horizon Europe – with €100 billion allocated for 2021–2027, extending participation beyond current eligible countries – opening the door to future UK participation buff.ly/2JhAe9T #HorizonEU

We need to do Blue Skies research, as well as focusing on the _Development_ side of R&D, following systems engineering approaches to ensure benefit to ordinary people – Dr Patrick Vallance (Government Office for Science) speaking on Brexit on #r4today

The Industrial Era Ended, So Will the Digital argues Greg Satell (@DigitalTonto) Harvard Business Review: Moore’s Law is ending; digital technical skills have been mastered; and digital applications are maturing. Exploration and discovery will again become prominent buff.ly/2mawjxT

ISCF Transforming Construction 'Manufacturing Better Buildings' Innovate UK programme enabling Research and Technology Organisations and universities to develop digitally-driven construction manufacturing standards, tools, designs, and validation methods buff.ly/2O0eUVb

The UK isn't alone in thinking it has a problem with commercialising science: everyone does notes Stian Westlake, arguing the problem is the instrumental connection made between the two, and a lack of appreciation of ecosystems

We’re really falling behind the rest of the world in Research & Development – Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell speaking on #r4today

Analysis Financial Times of the high-tech university-industry hub around Sheffield/Rotherham, inc. AMRC and new Laboratory for Validation and Verification, engineering companies The Boeing Company McLaren Mastercard Formula 1 Team Rolls-Royce and Metron, and the challenge of replacing ERDF funding buff.ly/2AaSRX3

We want to increase our spending on R&D from 1.7% to 2.4% by 2027, which will represent an extra £80bn – Sam Gyimah MP (Sam Gyimah), Minister for Universities, Science, Research & Innovation speaking on #r4today yesterday along with Sir Paul Nurse

Bristol-based chipmaker Graphcore (Graphcore) secures funding from Microsoft and BMW, in round led by funds Atomico and Sofina, to develop silicon for AI-related applications reports @Tim Bradshaw Financial Times (buff.ly/2PPbLqQ); co-founder Nigel Toon interviewed on #r4today

The CT Scan: Henry Marsh on EMI, Sir Godfrey Hounsfield and the pioneering innovation in medical diagnostics, in the 1971 episode of The Decade That Invented the Future: The 1970s buff.ly/2uMN46i

#GeneralElection2019 hustings on Science, Research, Technology and Innovation, co-hosted by CaSE (CaSE), 19/11, with Stephen Metcalfe (Stephen Metcalfe) [Con] Chi Onwurah 💙 [Lab] Sam Gyimah [LibDem] and Pallab Ghosh (Pallab Ghosh) [chair] #GE2019 buff.ly/2NPFItj

At midday UKSPA / @AIRTOinnovation hosts ‘The Future of the #RandD landscape‘ with @FelicityBurch, Innovation/Digital CBI; Dr Marie-Laure Hicks (Marie-Laure Hicks), Research & Innovation Royal Academy of Engineering; Dr Bryony Butland UK Research and Innovation; Dr UdayPhadke The R&D Society bit.ly/UKSPARDevent20…

R&D and the Comprehensive Spending Review UKSPA Webinar, 24/9, with Daniel Rathbone @ScienceCampaign Lee Hopley Enterprise Research Centre (ERC) Dan Cochlin The Northern Powerhouse Partnership Colette Cohen (@ColetteOGTC) and Iain Simpson The R&D Society on stimulating R&D for more sustainable futures ukspa.org.uk/event/rd-and-t…

Watch @EEF_Insights National Manufacturing Conference live (buff.ly/2GvDwki): Smart Energy Revolution workshop at 10:45 and Support and Sustain your Post-Brexit Workforce at 14:50 buff.ly/2GvDFUS #EEF2018

Attending 'R&D in the #IndustrialStrategy' Parliamentary event hosted All-Party Parliamentary Manufacturing Group this arvo with Institute for Manufacturing (IfM) High Value Manufacturing Catapult NPL BAE Systems and Лидия discussing how Govt strategy can support and build our ideas base and incentivise industrial R&D bit.ly/2FffPfK

This eve: Rachel Reeves, chair of Commons BEIS Select Committee, and Norman Lamb MP, chair of the Commons Science & Technology Select Committee, in conversation with Peggy Hollinger, hosted by All-Party Parliamentary Manufacturing Group (All-Party Parliamentary Manufacturing Group) buff.ly/2K6RtYp

Companies need to become more aware of the opportunities from networks and niches writes Peter Marsh; policymakers should drop hackneyed rhetoric of Industry 4.0 and recognise the best niche companies tend to have only a tangential link to digitisation buff.ly/2raqrXo

The State and Innovation: UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose hosts a discussion around new editions of Doing Capitalism by @BillJaneway and #TheEntrepreneurialState by Mariana Mazzucato (Mariana Mazzucato) on the case for the role of the state in the innovation process bit.ly/2wuZiEC

Britain's Trading Future: All-Party Parliamentary Manufacturing Group hosts discussion on Brexit implications for manufacturing, 16/5, with Vicky Ford MP, Namali Mackay @EEF_Press, David Bell BSI UK and James Greenham @EMSPhysioLtd, considering Free Trade Agreements, the WTO and Standards buff.ly/2IhPjUl