The SBRI programme has been running in Northern Ireland for several years now, but this year the programme has expanded significantly, providing support of £2m to three projects in Phase 3 and seven new Phase 1 projects. A total of 23 companies and organisations were awarded contracts to work on [...]
A new all island agritech body, Agtech Ireland, is being formed to represent the application of technology - especially hardware and software - in farming. Agriculture and food technology are viewed as a significant a high-potential growth area for the economy, and the key to the future of agriculture lies [...]
By Rebecca Walsh, Matrix panellist and Design Director at Big Motive When the COVID-19 lockdown was first introduced in Northern Ireland at the end of March, it was evident that the world was about to change, but nobody knew how. It was a time of anxiety and panic — people [...]
Belfast based custodial IT company Core Systems NI Ltd, has secured a significant deal to provide Australia’s largest prison with digital services to support inmate rehabilitation. Core Systems is a global expert in offender self-service solutions for use in prisons and in the community. Making the announcement, Patricia O’Hagan MBE, CEO [...]
Economy Minister Diane Dodds recently published the following article on the Life and Health Sciences sector: Northern Ireland has a burgeoning Life and Health Sciences (LHS) sector with a vibrant academic community, globally renowned companies and a uniquely integrated health and social care system. My new economic recovery plan - [...]
Liopa has successfully achieved funding from Innovate UK in its “Funding Competition for Business-led Innovation in Response to Global Disruption.” The financial award is part of a £40m package from the UK government to bolster technology and research-focused companies who are working to build resilience during the Covid crisis. Liopa [...]
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has announced that two NI consortia have been selected out of a total of 17 projects across the UK which will receive up to £50k each to lead development of a new regional research consortium. The two successful NI projects are a Smart Nano-Manufacturing Corridor [...]
The Department of Health in Northern Ireland has released its contact tracing mobile application, which is available on both Android and iOS. The app will automatically tell users in Northern Ireland if they have been near someone who tests positive for COVID-19. The first app of its kind to be [...]
The Department for International Trade has launched the Technology Export Academy, a new cohort programme for high performing technology SMEs. The aim of the Academy is to support UK based SMEs to grow their export markets through a structured programme of support. The current cohort focuses on Smart Cities subsectors: Smart Infrastructure [...]
Northern Ireland’s tech sector stands to be one of the biggest beneficiaries of “Bounce-Back” plans to help firms recover from the challenges of the coronavirus crisis. Speaking to business owners from the country at a virtual event, the UK Minister for Exports, Graham Stuart, and Minister of State for Northern [...]
Economy Minister Diane Dodds has announced £2.5million in support for 13 projects as part of the Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI). SBRI enables the public sector to tap into new ideas and technologies through funding competitions to business, resulting in new opportunities for companies who can provide solutions to the [...]
The government has announced 2 significant new support packages that will help protect the science jobs that will be essential for our future prosperity, and ensure that critical research projects can continue: from this autumn, UK universities will be able to access a series of government grants and long-term, low [...]