Most of the world -- despite the canaries in the coal mine -- was unprepared to cope with the coronavirus outbreak that's now besieging us. In the latest development, the UK government today announced that it will issue £20 million ($24.5 million) in grants of up to £50,000 each to startups and other businesses that are developing tools to improve resilience for critical industries -- in other words, those that need to keep moving when something cataclysmic like a pandemic hits. Awarded through Innovate UK, which part of UK Research and Innovation (itself a division of the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy), the grants will be available to businesses of any size as long as they are UK-registered, and aim to cover a wide swathe of industries that form the core fabric of how society and the economy can continue to operate.
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