Bennett Innovation Lab

Yesterday felt like a significant moment for the UK.

The @InstituteGC Disruptive Invention Labs report makes a powerful case: if the UK wants to lead industries of the future, we need new institutions built for autonomy, speed & breakthrough invention — not incremental progress

Today we launch the Bennett Innovation Lab (BIL).

BIL was born from a simple but urgent strategic imperative: if the UK wants to own the industries of the future, we must be able to build hardware-intensive technologies at unprecedented speed...

Scottish physicist Sir Robert Watson-Watt & his assistant Arnold Wilkins pioneered radar, often working under immense pressure and secrecy. Watson-Watt took the initial professional risk of pitching his theory - that radio waves could locate aircraft - to the Air Ministry in 1935

Hawker Siddeley and the Bristol Engine Company took the risk of privately funding the design of the Harrier Jump Jet when the UK government was dramatically cutting back manned fighter programs.

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The engineering teams at Rolls-Royce were the driving force behind the turbojet engine for the Concorde. The engine’s core was a British-designed development of the Olympus engine used in the Vulcan.

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