Smart Antenna Technologies (SAT), based on the University of Birmingham’s campus in Edgbaston, is opening a research facility in the Taiwanese capital of Taipei.
The company, set up 2013, will initially hire five new engineers to work with customers in China, Japan and Taiwan.
The financial boost to industry-academic collaborations is aimed at multiparty groups of businesses in three sectors: creative industries, food & drink, and tourism.
They are encouraging partnerships that could benefit an entire industry and result in new products, processes or services.
Haseltine Lake are focusing all their charitable giving and events on this one charitable organisation with the aim to develop a formal programme of support and create more opportunities for all their colleagues to get involved.
They chose Worldwide Cancer Research because of their particular focus on supporting scientific research and development which resonates strongly with Haseltine Lake due to their international profiles and locations.
ON Helix is a one day event aimed at informing delegates of how to turn early stage inventions and ideas into innovative health treatments. It presents the UK landscape of the business environment, funding, scientific and clinical research excellence and will be a unique knowledge-sharing environment between academia and business.
The National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) launches its new five-year strategy today (Tuesday) to accelerate progress in cancer research through collaboration.
Cancer Research UK and the Cancer Research Technology Pioneer Fund (CPF) have committed £2.5 million in collaboration with the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in the US to tackle one of the toughest challenges in cancer that has thwarted researchers for more than 30 years.
The University of Plymouth received funding from Innovate UK for the development of a new and economic vaccine designed to stop the spread of highly pathogenic zoonotic infectious diseases.
They have been awarded the funding for an initial ‘proof of concept’ project to target ruminant animal populations involved in the spread of Rift Valley Fever Virus (RVFV) and Q Fever (QF) to humans.
For more information about the University of Plymouth, Innovate UK and the vaccine, please follow the link.
FaultCurrent, a Cardiff University Spinout, has secured further funding to support commercial development. The funding was provided by the founding investor, IP Group PLC, and the UK Government’s Energy Entrepreneurs fund.
On 10th April 2017, the Duke of York opened a collaborative manufacturing research facility at the University of Sheffield.
The European Regional Development fund and the Higher Education Funding council for England part funded the £43million facility.
The facility is designed to help manufacturing companies test new production methods. It is also dedicated to digital assembly and flexible component manufacturing.