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Leaf Expression Systems: How Harnessing the Power of Plants is Changing the Future of Our Medicines

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Leaf Expression Systems was established in 2017 as a spin-out company from the John Innes Centre, and is situated within the scientific hub that is the Norwich Research Park, home to world-class research into plant science. Leaf Expression Systems runs …

The Royal Mint’s journey to manufacturing medical visors for the NHS

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Staff in The Royal Mint assembling the visors

In this blog The Royal Mint, more commonly known for making coins, discusses the journey to producing visors for the NHS. The Royal Mint announced back in April that it would be manufacturing nearly medical visors to help protect NHS staff working on the frontline amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Ploughshare Innovations: Is it possible to accelerate the commercialisation of innovations?

Sprint swim-lanes illustration used in the agile methodology

By adopting agile methodology to their commercialisation process, Ploughshare Innovations reduced the time taken to review a coronavirus-related innovation to just two weeks. Read how Hetti Barkworth-Nanton, their new CEO, achieved this and how the lessons learned will help to shape their future commercialisation work.