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Innovator Spotlight: An Interview with Rupert Wilkinson from Oxford Product Design and Oxford Gas Products

By Alfie Verity - 23/08/2022

At the EIC, we appreciate the opportunity to champion our innovator community. That’s why we’ve begun a new series, the Innovator Spotlight, where we sit down with an innovator and ask them all about their work in the utilities sector and beyond.

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