{"id":7042,"date":"2014-01-17T18:58:19","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T18:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=7042"},"modified":"2014-01-17T18:58:19","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T18:58:19","slug":"hi-tech-high-street-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=7042","title":{"rendered":"Hi-tech High Street competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">An \u00a38m initiative designed to help reinvigorate UK high streets has been announced by Science Minister David Willetts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The initiative involves a competition run by the UK\u2019s innovation agency (the Technology Strategy Board) to trial innovative ways of addressing the challenges facing UK high streets by exploring new approaches to retailing\/services, logistics and travel and traffic.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Read the Government news release at<\/span>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/8-million-technology-boost-for-uk-high-streets\" target=\"_blank\">LINK <\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Search Planning Portal<\/span>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planningportal.gov.uk\/general\/news\/stories\/2014\/Jan14\/160114\/160114_6\" target=\"_blank\">LINK<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An \u00a38m initiative designed to help reinvigorate UK high streets has been announced by Science Minister David Willetts. The initiative involves a competition run by the UK\u2019s innovation agency (the Technology Strategy Board) to trial innovative ways of addressing the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=7042\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7043,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7042\/revisions\/7043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}