Ulster University has won £20m of European funding through the EU’s INTERREG VA programme, which will see the University lead three major UK and cross-border research projects. The funding, awarded through the European Union’s INTERREG VA Programme, which is managed by the Special EU Programmes Body (SEUPB), will enable Ulster University [...]
CSIT Labs, the world’s only incubator programme for cyber security start-ups which provides engineering resource, is recruiting for its second cohort. The incubator is based at the Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT), the UK’s National Innovation and Knowledge Centre for cyber security located in Belfast. Teams will undertake a [...]
Economy Minister Simon Hamilton MLA has launched the Invest Northern Ireland Collaborative Growth Programme in Belfast. Invest Northern Ireland has allocated £5.7million funding over the next five years to help stimulate innovation among local businesses.One hundred per cent funding up to £25,000 is available to industry-led networks requiring facilitation support [...]
Game of Thrones now contributes £30m a year to the Northern Irish economy, but, thanks to the work of Northern Ireland Screen, the creative industries’ growth in the region goes way beyond just one TV show. Creative Review's Eliza Williams talk to CEO Richard Williams about attracting creative talent and [...]
Economy Minister Simon Hamilton MLA has announced US business aPriori Technologies is establishing a 15 strong technology team in Belfast to support its growth. Headquartered in Concord Massachusetts, the company offers major manufacturers software solutions which provide real-time insight into the manufacturability and cost of the products they develop. Its [...]
Film production is taking a starring role on both sides of the border, bringing with it investment in infrastructure and a demand for skilled finance professionals. These are heady days for the Irish film industry. Brooklyn, partly filmed in Ireland and based on the novel by Colm Tóibín, was nominated [...]
The 2016 MATRIX Advanced Manufacturing, Materials & Engineering (AMME) Report says that innovative engineering and manufacturing businesses across Northern Ireland have the potential to transform the economy. AMME Executive Summary AMME Full Report Case Studies The AMME sector is export and R&D intensive and includes sectors such as aerospace, polymers [...]
Christine Boyle of solar company Senergy Innovations and Dr Rachel Gawley of healthcare apps company AppAttic were among 15 winners in Innovate UK's ‘infocus’ competition for Women in Innovation, announced at an award ceremony held at London’s Royal Society of Arts. The winners come from a variety of sectors including health, nuclear energy, transport [...]
Last month MATRIX panellist Dr. Robert Grundy attended the NHS Health and Care Innovation Expo 2016 in order to understand drivers of innovation in the English NHS and learn more about different initiatives and approaches to innovation that could be applied to the Life and Health Sciences sector in Northern Ireland. [...]
A Belfast based technology start-up, Yedup, which uses ground-breaking social media analytics to enable investors to access real-time information about market conditions and what their customers are thinking has been named ‘Company of the Year’ at Invest Northern Ireland’s Propel Programme Awards. Yedup, which was founded by mathematicians Paul McWilliams and Dr. Martin Spollen from [...]
As the Wrights Group marks its 70th anniversary year, a new centre named after one of the company’s founders has been established at Queen’s University Belfast, the William Wright Technology Centre. The new facility at Queen’s School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering has been named after Dr William Wright CBE, [...]
On 27 October 2016, the Executive agreed the publication of a draft Programme for Government for a period of consultation. This Programme for Government is different from any before. It is constructed around a framework of wellbeing outcomes, expressing the ambitions of the Executive for everyone in society. It also [...]