Two Northern Ireland based start-ups have made the finals of Tech Nation’s Rising Stars 4.0 competition. Biotech and Life Sciences firm Kinva and Agrifood and Foodtech company CropSafe are amongst the 20 finalists who impressed an expert panel of judges led by GP Bullhound Vice President Ed Prior and included [...]
Economy Minister Gordon Lyons has met with manufacturers at Ballymena’s ECOS Centre to launch a call to companies for projects developing innovative low carbon technologies. The Challenge Fund, delivered by the Centre for Advanced Sustainable Energy (CASE) hosted by Queen’s University Belfast, an industry led sustainable energy research centre, received [...]
The Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) is currently seeking a Chair for the new Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA). BEIS Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng recently confirmed the appointment of DARPA Deputy Director Dr Peter Highnam as the first CEO of the UK’s new advanced inventions agency and [...]
Nominations are open now for EmTech Europe’s Innovators Under 35 Festival which is being held in Gaoth Dobhair, Donegal from 19th - 21st May. Innovators Under 35 Europe Festival 2021 presents an excellent opportunity to meet the next generation of innovators, who will transform our lives through their technological advances. [...]
Belfast City Council is consulting on its new Smart Belfast Urban Innovation Framework 2022-2027 and is seeking views on its plans and proposals. The framework is available as a PDF download or web page and you can share your views via the public consultation until 15 March 2022. The ‘Smart [...]
The UK Government has published its Levelling Up White Paper, setting out a plan to transform the UK by spreading opportunity and prosperity to all parts of it. At the heart of this new way of making and implementing policy will be 12 national missions - all quantifiable and to [...]
Dr Peter Highnam will head up the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) as its first CEO, from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has today (1 February 2022) appointed Dr Peter Highnam as Chief Executive of the UK’s new Advanced Research and [...]
To support and accelerate the digitalisation of the manufacturing industry, KTN is working with UKRI to drive innovation to support the adoption of digital technology through Made Smarter. Made Smarter is one of the Government’s Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund programmes, investing £147m into creating a fully connected, dynamic manufacturing ecosystem [...]
The Small Business Research Initiative provides the public sector with innovative solutions to problems that will drive improvement, and allows suppliers to develop products and services working collaboratively with the public-sector, enabling them to develop new skills, expertise and markets. Any public sector organisation may apply for SBRI funding. Projects [...]
UK Research and Innovation has launched a consultation on the organisation’s new equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) strategy. Setting out an ambition for an inclusive research and innovation system, the new strategy will detail the organisation’s long-term commitment to achieving this aim. The open consultation runs from 13 January with [...]
Steve Orr, Matrix panel member and Chief Executive of Catalyst, the Northern Ireland innovation hub, has been awarded an OBE in the New Year’s Honours list for services to innovation. Prior to succeeding Dr Norman Apsley as Chief Executive of Catalyst in 2018, Steve founded Connect at Catalyst, a not-for-profit [...]
UK and NI Executive Ministers gathered at the ICC Belfast this morning to sign the first ever City Deal for Northern Ireland. The Belfast Region City Deal unlocks £1 billion of transformative co-investment which will deliver more than 20 highly ambitious projects and programmes, create up to 20,000 new and [...]