Share This The FINANCIAL -- Nine new partnerships bring together world-class expertise from a range of UK businesses and academia to develop technologies of the future and create new jobs, UK Research and Innovation notes. The transformative technology they aim to develop includes ‘objects’ made up of soundwaves that could replace touchscreens in car and personalised media platforms, which adapt to the preferences of viewers. Transformative technology Many of the partnerships will also help to achieve the UK’s net zero target. Examples include creating renewable new materials from sources including carbon capture for use in household products such as laundry detergents.