News and events

Professor Chris Warkup is optimistic about the UK Government's Innovation policy, read his blog post to find out why.

Innogen researchers have prepared a policy brief with evidence-based recommendations for governments and other stakeholders to reduce the global warming potential and negative biodiversity impacts of fish farming in Scotland.

As part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science, Innogen is hosting a public engagement event in Edinburgh that will explore the many uses of seaweed, and its potential role in ameliorating climate change.

We have learned with the greatest sadness of the passing of Andrew Webster, Professor in sociology at the University of York.

As a member of the Regulatory Horizons Council, Joyce Tait led the development of a report to the UK Government proposing how innovative genetic technologies for use in agriculture and food production should be regulated post-Brexit.

In a Commentary piece published in Transgenic Research, Alan Raybould, Innogen member and Chair in Innovation in the Life Sciences at the University of Edinburgh, argues that political leaders need to make a stronger case for green biotechnology in achieving food security and other sustainable development goals.

Innogen researchers have published a report that examines how innovations in fish farming can contribute to meet multiple government policies and objectives, including Net Zero, a circular economy, zero waste, marine and land biodiversity targets and UN Sustainable Development Goals.

At an event hosted by UK’s national academies on the 14th July, Sir John Kingman gave a talk on his experience as Chair of UKRI. Some of his comments on the need to improve links with industry and to reshape regulation in R&D-based sectors in ways that promote innovation, resonated with Innogen members who have expressed similar concerns for years.

The Royal Society has published a memoir of Calestous Juma (1953-2017) written by Innogen Associate Professor Norman Clark.

Innogen and the International Development & Innovation research network based in Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at The Open University are hosting the online launch of Prof. Raphael Kaplinsky’s new book: Sustainable Futures: An Agenda for Action.