With 2030 presenting a hard deadline for mitigating the worst, most irreversible effects of global climate change, the clock is most definitely ticking. Given that the UK’s built environment is responsible for an estimated 45% of the country’s total carbon emissions on its own, it makes sense to focus a significant amount of attention, investment and innovation there.

Manufacturing is looking to re-ignite itself but putting people to work potentially means putting them at risk, and employers in every industry are being forced to make difficult decisions about how to proceed. Manufacturing may be essential – but so is protecting a vulnerable workforce from a disease with neither a cure nor a vaccine on the visible horizon.

All over the world, entire sectors are finding and refining ways to “green up their act” without sacrificing competitiveness or growth. The balance isn’t always an easy one to strike, but climate change is likely to go down as the defining challenge of our times so the pressure is only building.

It would be difficult to overstate the challenges facing the UK’s pivotal construction industry right now. With a declining skills base, a workforce that’s aging out of the sector, the still-uncertain Brexit fallout and now a global pandemic to deal with, it’s no surprise that construction’s suffering its worst slump in memory - but as one of the most innovative sectors in the UK there's still hope for the future.

When we talk about medtech, a lot of the time we put the emphasis on the glamorous cutting edge where innovation borders on science fiction. However, as COVID-19 has demonstrated on a global scale, innovation can be every bit as much about expanding capacity under pressure, broadening definitions along with horizons

With the UK’s economy on a pilot light until further notice, it’s more important than ever that you take every funding opportunity seriously. The trouble is, when the going’s uncertain, many of the traditional lenders and investors you’d be looking at start getting cold feet. With the money drying up all around, businesses are looking beyond their normal financing comfort zones – and it turns out there’s still quite a lot to find out there.

Telehealth is still a young field, so it’ll be a while before we get a really clear sense of the long-term impact it’ll have on medical care in the UK. With the ongoing COVID-19 crisis driving the need for reduced face-to-face time in virtually every walk of life into sharp focus, however, we’re on a steep learning curve.

A key lesson of the Covid-19 pandemic is that teleconferencing, remote presence and real-time information sharing are key support structures for navigating a social lockdown – and nowhere is this need more urgently felt than in the medical sector.

Fintech is among the most energetic, rapidly growing of all the technology sectors. It's affecting how we spend, save, borrow and even define our money. The days of physical cash – and arguably physical cashiers – are numbered, and the very concept of currency itself is shifting and broadening.