Amanda Miller
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Stepping out of your comfort zone with YES
June 1, 2021
For 24 years, science and engineering researchers, from UK universities, have been stepping out of their comfort zones to take part in the Young Entrepreneurs Scheme (YES) – a competition developed to raise awareness of how ideas can be commercialised. Over this time, around 6,000 researchers have invested hours of preparation to deploy novel ideas …
Pathway for poverty alleviation via potato industrialisation in China?
October 26, 2020
In this blog, Dr Bin Wu, Xiyao Wang and Chi Xu investigate how industrialisation of potato production in the Yi minority region of Sichuan, China can lead to a pathway for poverty alleviation. Regarding the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), it is a big challenge to help smallholder farmers – who feed two-thirds of the …
