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The Next 100 Days: Mitigating Risk
This is the next blog in the series looking at how companies can align their commercial goals with an effective approach to Intellectual Property (IP), using Potter Clarkson’s “Next 100 Days” guide. During times of crisis, it is more important than ever to mitigate...
UKAEA welcomes new funding for Tokamak Energy
Tokamak Energy, the private company based at Milton Park in Oxfordshire, which is working to develop compact fusion power, has recently been awarded £10 million from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, as part of the UK Government’s Advanced...
Lessons Learnt From A Zero Carbon Laboratory
Four years after completion in 2016 we have been taking the opportunity to review how well the University of Nottingham’s Centre for Sustainable Chemistry is working. The building provides all of the functions required for the operation of the Universities...
Yorkshire leaders sign manifesto to boost innovation in the region
Leaders from across Yorkshire’s local and civic government, universities and research institutions have signed a new manifesto to boost the nation’s regional innovation potential. The signatories – which include Martin Farrington, director, city development at Leeds...
Place Matters: Innovation and Growth in the UK
Produced by Metro Dynamics, on behalf of Bruntwood SciTech, the Place Matters: Innovation and Growth in the UK report explores the power of place.Many of our cities and towns have or have had a key role in the creation of the innovation-based global knowledge economy....
Rob Nixon joins Cambridge Science Park based Qkine as Head of Commercial and Dr Cassie Doherty is appointed to the board strengthening the company’s leadership team
Qkine – a specialist developer and manufacturer of proteins for stem cell, organoid and regenerative medicine applications based at Cambridge Science Park – is delighted to announce the appointment of Rob Nixon as Head of Commercial to its management team and Dr...
Sci-Tech Daresbury business Perfectus Biomed looks to accelerate international growth following merger with US firm Extherid Biosciences
Perfectus Biomed Limited, located at Sci-Tech Daresbury, has announced it has merged with Wyoming based laboratory, Extherid Biosciences. The announcement follows a period of sustained growth that has seen Perfectus Biomed utilise its expertise in order to create jobs...
NETPark business secures €400,000 funding to launch space project
Technology company aXenic is launching a project to develop revolutionary components for the next generation of telecommunications satellites after receiving a grant of €400,000. Based at the North East Technology Park (NETPark) in Sedgefield, County...
Sphere Fluidics and Heriot-Watt University collaborate to develop next generation droplet generator instrumentation
Sphere Fluidics, a company developing single cell analysis systems underpinned by its patented picodroplet technology, and Heriot-Watt University, a specialist, pioneering Scottish University, today announced they have been awarded a Knowledge Transfer Partnership...
Unilever renew membership with Sensor City to drive innovation
Sensor City will provide Unilever with a bespoke package of technical and business support over the next two years, as part of a joint commitment to drive innovation within Liverpool City Region. Liverpool-based global innovation hub Sensor City has secured a two-year...
Birmingham spinout announces collaboration and licence agreement to develop precision cancer treatments
Birmingham spinout Revitope Oncology Inc has announced a research collaboration and licence agreement with leading Chinese biopharmaceutical company Junshi Biosciences to develop precision cancer therapies that harness the body’s immune response to kill cancer cells...
Park businesses contribute to PPE call to action for Northants
The Silverstone Technology Cluster’s (STC) ‘COVID-19 Response Team’, assisted by businesses at Silverstone Park, has helped to source more than 50,000 items of personal protective equipment (PPE) for healthcare workers across Northamptonshire during the coronavirus...
Next stage of health innovation campus takes shape
Manchester’s world-class health innovation and precision medicine campus - a joint venture between Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT), the UK's largest NHS provider Trust, and Manchester Science Partnerships (MSP), took a step forward today as Citylabs...
Antibodies found in llamas could neutralise Covid-19 virus
A team of UK researchers based at Harwell Campus and Oxford University have discovered that antibodies derived from llamas could neutralise the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Using advanced imaging with X-rays and electrons at the Harwell based Diamond Light Source and also Oxford...
Sci-Tech Daresbury appoints Willmott Dixon to £15m Project Violet development
Sci-Tech Daresbury has announced the next phase of its growth following the appointment of Willmott Dixon as lead contractor for its Project Violet development, which will comprise 42,000 sq ft of speculative grade A office, and innovation space, coupled with the...