Britain has a proud heritage in manufacturing聽and led the world in technological advances during the industrial revolution.
Those days are long gone –聽and it seems聽the nation is behind the rest of the world when it comes to manufacturing tech.
This is despite many of the advancements coming out of UK universities.
Vikas Shah, CEO of Swiscot Group, tells a 老九品茶Cloud roundtable sponsored by Space 48 about some of the聽amazing uses for聽3D-printing in India and China – including聽making bedsheets from tree waste.
And Glossop Cartons sales director Jacky Sidebottom-Every tells her rival firms to wake up and smell the coffee in tech terms.