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Cornwall Innovation at Plymouth University receives sector-first national accreditation

Submitted by office on Tue, 12/08/2015 - 10:49

Plymouth University has become the first higher education institution in the country to receive a national innovation accreditation in recognition of its support for small and medium-sized businesses in Devon and Cornwall.

The University has been given the Investor in Innovations Award for its management of the three Innovation Centres in Cornwall, which are now home to over 110 innovative high growth businesses, and which since their launch in 2011, have helped create more than 200 jobs.

Apply for the Cancer Research UK Pioneer Award

Submitted by office on Tue, 12/08/2015 - 08:25

What is the Pioneer Award?

The Pioneer Award will fund research into truly innovative, ground-breaking ideas with the potential to lead to new discoveries or approaches that will help us better understand, prevent, diagnose or treat cancer. Awards will enable research into ideas with the potential for high reward to beat cancer sooner.

Applications are welcomed from all investigators, no matter your background, occupation, or academic publication record. Successful awards will be:

Do you even knowledge exchange, bro?

Submitted by office on Wed, 12/02/2015 - 08:42

Lana Semykina, Knowledge Exchange & Commercialisation Officer at The Genome Analysis Centre gives you the run down of all things knowledge exchange from the TGAC blog.

What it is, why we need it, conseqences and successes of knowledge exchange.

Read the full blog here

Business Schools win at the Small Business Charter awards

Submitted by office on Tue, 12/01/2015 - 12:00

Cumbria Business School, Leicester Business School De Montfort University, Portsmouth Business School and Staffordshire University Business School were all winners at the awards

They are now part of the winning business schools across the UK who continue to help start-ups and small businesses.

The Success of Imperial Innovations

Submitted by office on Tue, 12/01/2015 - 11:05

An article in this publication highlighted the contiuning success of Imperial Innovations in commercialising research, including an interview with Russ Cummings, the CEO of Imperial Innovations.

Please see here.

The Institute for Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering (AME) hosted the Chancellor and Business Secretary for Momentous Deal

Submitted by office on Thu, 11/26/2015 - 09:11

The Institute for Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering (AME), a result of the collaboration between University of Coventry and Unipart, was chosen as the venue for a momentous announcement.

The Hub hosted members of the West Mindlands Combined Authority (WMCA) and both Chancellor George Osbourne and Business Secretary Sajid Javid to sign a ‘devolution’ deal for the area and was chosen due to the representation of positive business-university collaboration and their innovative ‘Faculty on the Floor’.

Carl Perrin, Director of AME said:

Setsquared ranked top university incubator in the world

Submitted by office on Thu, 11/26/2015 - 08:59

Setquared is the partnership between Universities - Exeter, Southampton, Surrey, Bristol and Bath. They were previously named best university incubator in Europe. Now, UBI Global have named Setsquared the best in the world in 2015, announced at the incubator's annual investment evening in London.

Engineering research Hubs to be built at Southampton and Brunel Universities

Submitted by office on Wed, 11/25/2015 - 10:55

Two £10m research centres, based in Southampton and Brunel Universities, are being created to cater for evolving optoelectronics technologies and recieved £20m funding from the EPSRC with an additional £58m from industry. The Hubs are designed to simplify continuing technical complexities and enable rapid commercialisation of technology.

GSK and Cambridge Strategic Partnership collaboration to develop ‘game-changing’ medicines

Submitted by office on Wed, 11/25/2015 - 10:25

It was announced that the Cambridge Strategic Partnerships and GlaxoSmithKline will collaborate. The University of Cambridge and Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation make up the Cambridge Strategic Partnership.

The collaboration will bring together a variety of unique expertise and capabilities working towards pharmaceutical developments over the next 5 to 10 years.

University of Oxford Extends Strategic Alliance with Summit Therapeutics

Submitted by office on Thu, 11/19/2015 - 09:58

It has been announced that the collaboration between Summit Therapeutics and the University of Oxford working to develop Utrophin Modulators for the disorder DMD has been extended by 12 months.

Read more here