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Find out about the Society's work to support collaboration and innovation through events, grants and awards.
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The Royal Society is running a new series of regional and national meetings that address the UK's scientific and technical opportunities and challenges.
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Royal Society Entrepreneurs in Residence
Helping students and scientists to develop commercial skills and translate their ideas
Transforming our future conference series
The Royal Society runs a series of unique, high-level conferences to address the major scientific and technical challenges of the next decade.
Transforming UK translation
The Royal Society has outlined a series of commitments to ensure that translation is recognised and celebrated as an integral part of academic research.
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- Transforming our future conference series
- Higher Education and Research Bill
- Case studies of commercial success
- Innovation throughout the UK
- UK research and the EU
- Royal Society Enterprise Fund
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Transforming our future conference series
The Royal Society is running a new series of unique, high-level conferences to address the major scientific and technical challenges of the next decade.
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Reforms to the UK’s higher education, research and innovation system
We are working closely with the Fellowship and the broader research and innovation community to engage with the Higher Education and Research Bill.
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Inspiring Innovations and Success Stories
A collection of profiles showcasing how the translation of scientific breakthroughs into commercial success has been achieved in the UK.
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Innovation throughout the UK
Creating connections is a series of regional and national meetings that address the scientific and technical opportunities and challenges faced by the UK.
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UK research and the EU
The Society is gathering evidence about the influence of the UK’s relationship with the EU on research.
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Royal Society Enterprise Fund
The objective of the Royal Society Enterprise Fund is to become a financially successful contributor to early-stage company support and a role model for the translation of excellent science for commercial and social benefit.
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Fellows working in this area
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Professor Sir Martin Sweeting OBE FREng FRS
Elected 2000
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Professor Sir Martin Sweeting OBE FREng FRS
- Fellow
- Elected:2000
Professor Sir Martin Sweeting
Sir Martin is an aerospace engineer whose pioneering approach to microsatellite design has helped small and inexpensive satellites perform sophisticated space missions.
In 1985 he founded Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd — the world’s first small satellite technology firm, which fundamentally changed the economics of space exploration.
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Dame Sue Ion GBE FREng FRS
Elected 2016
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Dame Sue Ion GBE FREng FRS
- Fellow
- Elected:2016
- Board Member, University of Central LancashireHonorary President, National Skills Academy for Nuclear
Dame Sue Ion
Dame Sue spent 27 years with BNFL rising to the position of Chief Technology Officer, after which she assumed a number of mainly voluntary roles in Science and Engineering, including Chairman of the UK Nuclear Innovation Research Advisory Board (NIRAB) and the only non US member of the US Department of Energy’s Nuclear Energy Advisory Committee.
She is chair of the Royal Society’s Science, Industry and Translation Committee.
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