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Adapting in a crisis
In recent months, scientific organisations all over the world have seen their laboratory access significantly reduced in order to enforce social distancing measures and limit the spread of the coronavirus. Some researchers have paused their laboratory research...
Why the next 100 days are critical for innovative businesses
Businesses around the world are currently facing some really tough operational choices on many fronts, and these can be especially difficult decisions for highly innovative businesses, who are in the midst of a breakthrough or on the way to launching a new product or...
We Are One: Building the Nexus Community
It’s now twelve months since we opened the doors at Nexus, and the community we have built here is something we’re immensely proud of. To mark the occasion, and as we look forward the start of our second year, I’m delighted to share with you some of the successes and...
Unwinding the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
The Chancellor has now outlined the tapering of Government support for the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme in the three months prior to its closure at the end of October. Overview The Government has outlined its broad plans for winding down the Job Retention Scheme,...
How Covid-19 has changed the future of workplace design forever
The global pandemic has changed workplace design forever. It’s informed us of what’s inherently important to our people, and we can use this to create spaces to support them in new ways of working. So what will your future office be like? Covid-19 has created a huge...
Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme: the current position
Following the successful launch of the claims portal on 20 April, the scheme has now been extended in its present form until the end of July. What is the current position? The first announcement of the Scheme on Friday 20th March explained that the Government...
Innovation Assets as Leadership Symbols
We may be entering the deepest recession for 300 years. There are 6 million people furloughed - across all sectors - and many businesses are in hibernation, clinging on and hoping for clarity of when the lockdown will end, what 'post-lockdown' will really mean and...
Science at home : Is it possible for researchers to work remotely ?
Given recent events, huge swathes of us have suddenly had to start working remotely in order to help slow the spread of COVID-19 and ease the strain on healthcare systems globally. Scientific researchers play a key role in the fight against the virus as well as other...
Consistency in innovation: how companies from across the Bruntwood SciTech network are supporting the fight against Covid-19
The COVID-19 crisis has already had a global impact, in particular the way businesses operate. The world is rapidly attempting to find solutions to the myriad of challenges caused by the COVID-19 crisis, and nowhere else is this more true than across the Bruntwood...
Heavenly Connections
The network increasing awareness of angel investor benefits Minerva Business Angels are part of the University of Warwick Science Park Ltd and initially started as an informal network in 1994. In 2010 we formed our first investment group and from there we have...
Heading in the right direction
Transformational transport investment for Northern regeneration Productivity is vital for economic growth. It determines the wealth, wages and living standards of a society and is critical for ensuring the long-term success of a country. The Government has said that...
Seven Facilities Management Considerations for Re-entry Post-COVID_19 and Beyond
Whether you own or manage property in the commercial office, industrial or retail sector, the COVID-19 outbreak has shone a spotlight on facilities management across the real estate industry and beyond. From the early stages of the outbreak when...
Enriching innovation ecosystems with diversity in business and cities
From filling gaps to closing them for good. Boosting innovation across the UK matters more than ever Economic and industrial strategies developed over the last few years (including the Government’s Industrial Strategy and the emerging plethora of Local Industrial...
Biomedical Catalyst: Non-dilutive funding for Health & Life Science companies
The UK has a thriving health & life science sector that is a highly productive, R&D intensive cornerstone of the UK economy. Numerous challenges await small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) seeking to explore and develop innovative new products such as...
The state of investment into UK Life Sciences companies
Some of the key challenges of the 21st century will be biological; ageing populations, antibiotic resistant bacteria, and the threat of epidemics, as illustrated by the spread of the coronavirus, are just a few of the developments that require urgent attention....