Business Secretary Vince Cable said:
I am delighted to appoint Ruth McKernan as Chief Executive of Innovate UK. As the government’s innovation agency, it plays a critical role in funding innovative businesses to develop new technologies, helping them to bring new products and ideas to the marketplace.
Innovate UK have gained a talented woman in a key leadership position. She brings with her the knowledge and expertise needed to steer this expanding organisation as it provides the financial support and connections to expert business advice that increasing numbers of businesses need to drive economic growth. Making the UK a truly leading knowledge economy.

Vince Cable appoints new Innovate UK Chief Executive
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Now we need to start working on KnowledgeEconomy.UK so that the people of the United Kingdom have a great resource for learning more about how to get ahead in the knowledge economy. Also, it will give UK BIS and similar agencies a focused platform to spread their message about what the UK is doing to become the knowledge economy that other countries want to emulate.