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New guidance for safer travel and safer transport operations
The Department for Transport has published guidance for safer travel and safer transport operations during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in England. Click for details
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...
UK Government’s Covid-19 Guidance
Ahead of today's (Monday 11 May) Parliamentary debate the Government has published " OUR PLAN TO REBUILD: The UK Government’s COVID-19 recovery strategy" This can be downloaded from gov,uk here The guidance also sets out the government's three-step plan. In step one,...
Plans unveiled to establish Cheltenham as the cyber-tech capital of the UK
Cheltenham Borough Council begins its search for a partner to deliver £400million Golden Valley development The search for a development partner for a major £400million project to create the UK’s cyber capital as part of the Golden Valley Garden Community has been...
Business Durham appointed to lead Satellite Innovation Centre
Business Durham has been appointed to lead the North East Satellite Applications Centre of Excellence until March 2022, having provided support to the sector since 2014. The Satellite Applications Catapult and the UK Space Agency, which funds the centre,...
Business rates revaluation postponed
A revaluation of business rates will no longer take place in 2021 to help reduce uncertainty for firms affected by the impacts of coronavirus, Communities Secretary Rt...
Latest UKSPA webinar launched as lockdown exit strategy is announced this week
It is anticipated that the Prime Minister will announce a series of Government rules to establish a strategy for reopening selected areas of the economy for UK business, as part of an expected easing of lockdown on Thursday 7 May. It is understood that these measures...
Top-up to local business grant funds scheme includes shared workspaces
A discretionary fund has been set up to accommodate certain small businesses previously outside the scope of the business grant funds scheme. The Business Secretary Alok Sharma and Minister for Regional Growth and Local Government, Simon Clarke spoke to local...
£2m microbial sequencing boost for Quadram Institute Bioscience
Quadram Institute Bioscience in Norwich has received £2 million from UKRI to fund state-of-the-art cloud-computing infrastructure to enable UK microbiologists to analyse microbial sequences, including COVID-19 viral genomes. Quadram has launched CLIMB-BIG-DATA, a...
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...
Willmott Dixon lands agri-food R&D development in Lincolnshire
Latest in a series of projects in this county to create jobs and encourage inward investment Willmott Dixon has secured the role to build the University of Lincoln’s £7m agri-food research and development (R&D) facility at Peppermint Park – part of the South...
Tech innovation centre to boost city region’s SMEs
Technology innovation centre CPI has announced a new project to work with SMEs across Leeds City Region to accelerate the commercialisation of new formulated products. The project, called ‘Formulation Technology applied to Materials and Products’ (ForTaMP), is...
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...
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...
Coronavirus: EU guidance for a safe return to the workplace
How to ensure the health and safety of workers when they come back to the workplace? This important question is on the minds of many employers as EU countries plan or execute a progressive return to work after coronavirus. In response, the European Agency for Safety...