MATRIX, the Northern Ireland Science Industry Panel, has welcomed the UK Industrial Strategy White Paper published last Monday which outlines plans to drive growth, build on the strengths of places, boost skills, improve productivity, boost people’s earning power and upgrade infrastructure. Read the Industrial Strategy White Paper The Strategy includes [...]
GovCampConnect, the "unconference" for anyone interested in digital government, returns for another year to Narrow Water Castle, Warrenpoint, Saturday 2nd September 2017, 9am-5pm. Talk topics will be attendee generated on the day, but to give you an idea, topics at last year's GovCampConnect included: What does a Smart City look like? [...]
Three new panellists have been appointed to MATRIX, bringing with them a wealth of experience in their respective fields. Tom Gray Tom Gray has been the CTO at Kainos for over ten years and was recently appointed as Chairman of the Institution of Engineering and Technology in Northern Ireland. He [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Economy Minister Simon Hamilton has announced £3.6 million of research funding for five research projects involving Queen’s University Belfast. The Investigators Programme Partnership between Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) and the Department for the Economy (DfE) supports collaborative projects involving universities from Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland (RoI) in [...]
Scotland’s new procurement rules will support transformation in public sector procurement and become an agent for social and economic change, according to the woman in charge of Scotland’s centre of procurement expertise for local government. Julie Welsh, director of Scotland Excel, believes that the introduction this week of the Public [...]