New plans to boost private sector investment to put the UK at the front of the global innovation race have been set in a new Innovation Strategy launched by Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng. Read the UK Innovation Strategy The Innovation Strategy is the UK Government’s long-term vision to put innovation [...]
The Department for International Trade supports innovative UK start-ups and scale-ups to secure international investment. DIT's Growth Capital Team secures long-term relationships between the UK and Corporate and Venture Capital investors, Family Offices and Ultra High Net Worth Individuals, attracting their investment into UK opportunities and engagement with the vibrant [...]
Dr. Jayne Brady MBE, Belfast Digital Innovation Commissioner and Chair of BRCD Digital Pillar, has been named as a member of the new UK Innovation Expert Group which aims to support entrepreneurs and start-ups, increasing the flow of capital into firms carrying out R&D and enabling them to scale up. [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
More start-ups and innovative firms will be able to apply for investment from the government’s Future Fund from today. companies which have participated in accelerator programmes now eligible for the popular scheme more than 320 early-stage, high-growth firms have so far benefitted from £320 million of support through the Fund [...]
Belfast City Council has launched a new digital innovation matchmaking service www.CovidConnectNI.com in response to Covid-19. The pandemic has created a range of challenges for public, voluntary and community sector organisations, many of which require the innovative use of digital technology to continue to deliver their critical services or to [...]
The Department of Finance has opened a £30,000 Innovation and Outreach Fund to encourage the use of open data. Awards of between £300 and up to £5,000 are available to fund the development of apps or other interactive visualisations that make innovative use of data on the Open Data NI [...]
The Department for the Economy and the Department of Finance are currently inviting government departments and arm’s length bodies to submit proposals for new Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) projects. Matrix is currently producing a series of videos to demonstrate how SBRIs work - you can view the first of [...]
Did you know that Innovate UK supported Northern Ireland businesses with funding worth over £20 million last year? Take a short survey to help DfE understand why more NI businesses don't bid for Innovate UK funding and you could win £100 of Amazon vouchers! Innovate UK is the UK’s Innovation [...]
CBI are running a survey to try and quantify which emerging technologies are being used/considered by UK companies, their level of adoption and corporate attitude. The CBI / Accenture Tech Tracker survey is an opportunity for your business to have its say on the technology trends, investment patterns and drivers [...]