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17/07/2023

In the second in his series taking a closer look at some of the different facets of the healthcare industry, this month Richard considers measurement, its implications, and the efficiency opportunities it presents when carried out properly:

  In the 2nd mini blog targeted at efficiency in the context of healthcare and the NHS, Polestar considers Measurement.   In order to optimise efficiency gains, it is vital firstly to understand what needs to be made more efficient, secondly to decide where resources should be deployed to realise....

04/07/2023

105 million euros? Invested in a four-week-old start-up?? With no demonstrable offering??? The recent investment of millions into French start-up, Mistal AI, may appear reckless at first glance, but upon further inspection begins to make more sense - join us as we journey into the (expensive) world of AI development...

  The recent investment of 105 million euros into French AI start-up, Mistral AI, has prompted industry commentators the world over to discuss the legitimacy of such ventures and the technology behind them. How is it that a newly formed company, just a couple of months old, can secure such…

28/06/2023

Cleantech - another sustainability buzzword to add to your repertoire. This week, Anusheh takes a look at investment trends in the industry, what companies can do to be more attractive, and the future of sustainable investing:

  Cleantech is a word that has come up in conversations quite a bit since the rise of ESG and sustainability in investment criteria. The term cleantech - short for clean technology - refers to any products, services, or processes that use renewable materials and energy sources, reduce emissions and...

15/06/2023

Monopoly in the gaming industry? As the US makes its own moves to block Microsoft's proposed $69bn acquisition of gaming industry behemoth, Activision Blizzard, we take a look at history and current state of the gaming industry, and what the acquisition could mean for it going forward...

  Video games – once the domain of the oft-maligned nerd – have now truly reached the point of cultural ubiquity. The industry, since its humble beginnings in the 60s and early 70s, has grown to become a world-wide behemoth, eclipsing in size both the film and music industries combined…

27/04/2023

In her latest blog, Ella delves into the ever-evolving semiconductor industry and its immense impact on the global economy. The ubiquity of the technology is unquestioned, but recent issues with supply chains have brought chaos to many consumer electronics markets - click here to find out more:

  Semiconductors are present in almost all of our technology as they are used in chips to drive power flow through the devices we use every day. The unprecedented growth growth in demand for tech solutions brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic and its associated lockdowns has led to a…

19/04/2023

Have you tried out GPT-4 yet? Wondering how it will impact your company? Click to link below to read our thoughts on the technology that promises to change the world:

  AI is the undeniable zeitgeist. Emerging from relative obscurity to near ubiquity over the course of just one year, AI-based technology has taken the world by storm with its photorealistic image generation and near-human-like GPT models. More recently, we have seen the launch of OpenAI’s latest...

27/03/2023

After a Covid-induced stress test like no other, Conor explores how supply chains are adapting by adopting emerging AI systems and processes:

  While OpenAI’s GPT-4 may have some believing Artificial Intelligence (AI) is finally here, it has been in continuous development since the 1950s, although its advancement has certainly sped up in recent years. The first chatbot, a means now used (much to everyone’s annoyance) by countless cus...

23/03/2023

Missed our newsletter? Fear not, you can read all about it in the link below - this month, Charlie takes a look at the rise of AI, sustainability, and our shiny new website:

Stephen Hawking, in his final book, listed the rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) as one of the three biggest issues that mankind would have to deal with. Elon Musk said it is “actually a bigger risk to society than cars or planes or medicine”. Yet regulators are miles behind and, on the face ...

22/03/2023

In the first part in a series of blogs taking a reports by the World Economic Forum (WEF), Anusheh examines the state of global risk and climate security - click the link below to read more:

  A lot of the clients that I have worked with during my time at Polestar have been consulting companies within the business services sector, specifically political risk and business intelligence. Our clients’ jobs are to anticipate risk of all kinds, be it political, economic, social, etc. They ...

26/07/2021

For the latest in our series of valuation reports, we take a look at the UK's manufacturing & industrial sector and how it is recovering from the challenges of the last year - click the link below to read more: