Gold an important precious metal for industrial innovation.

The biggest sources of demand for gold are for jewellery and as an investment, but with more than 4,000 academic papers filed last year using the precious metal as a component, technology offers mining companies a way to use industrial innovation to promote sales.

To encourage research, the World Gold Council (WGC), the industry’s UK-based market development body, is investing to help promising research bridge the gap between university and the laboratory and money from venture capital frms and multinational…