Air of positivity: Rolls-Royce’s Alan Newby believes that the aviation industry needs to be bolder in stressing its positive contribution to the modern world. Stuart Nathan reports

Over a third of automotive employers have cut jobs due to Brexit fears, according to new figures released by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT).

A UK research team has pioneered a novel technique for engineering tissues which has the capacity to greatly reduce the time taken to fabricate implantable human tissue.

Kevin Matthews of Oxonica has diversified the company’s portfolio from fuel additives to medical applications — a move that seems to have paid off.

ABB has secured orders worth $75m to provide propulsion, power-generation and power-distribution systems to a number of new ships in South Korea.

STMicroelectronics and Intel are to combine their research and development, manufacturing and sales and marketing assets to create a new semiconductor company.

Costly drugs that are used to treat illnesses such as cancer and arthritis could be made more cheaply thanks to a method developed by UK scientists.

Technology firms KeTech and Vamosa are the first to benefit from a UK government-backed fund providing vital investment to innovative small businesses.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries is to license technologies for equipment used in pressurised water reactor nuclear power plants to the Chinese Harbin Group.

Rolls-Royce has secured a deal worth up to $900m (£612m) to power Saudi Arabian Airlines aircraft using its Trent 700EP engines.