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 [...]
The Connected Places Catapult (CPC) has announced the names of the five companies that will work on the housing technology testbed projects in Northern Ireland. It has revealed details of plans for the Homes for Healthy Ageing programme, which involves a consortium of agencies in Northern Ireland running trials of digital [...]
Finance Minister Conor Murphy has encouraged individuals and businesses to apply for grants of up to £5,000 as he launched the Open Data Innovation and Outreach Fund. Whether it’s building an app or interactive data visualisation, organising a hackathon or coming up with a new way to examine the impact [...]
Have you been part of a team that’s made an incredible innovative leap with commercial viability that has provided a real benefit to society? Open to UK Based organisations and institutions the annual MacRobert Award, presented by the Worshipful Company of Engineers in conjunction with the Royal Academy of Engineering [...]
Our Deputy Chair, Mary McKenna, has joined DIT’s Global Entrepreneur Team as their first ever dealmaker dedicated to bringing founding teams & their innovative, tech-based businesses to Northern Ireland. Her new role will use her entrepreneurial experience, global network & detailed understanding of the Northern Irish investment & early stage [...]
Do you run a small, innovative business interested in making it as a public sector supplier? SBRI could provide the pathway for you to make a real difference to citizens and work with the public sector in Northern Ireland. Matrix has just launched a new feature on its website dedicated [...]
Dr Robert Grundy, the Chair of the Northern Ireland Science Industry Panel - Matrix, recently attended Open Technology for Sustainability, a fringe event at COP26 - The UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow. In this article, Dr Grundy shares his impressions of the challenges now facing us as we seek [...]
The Northern Ireland Affairs Committee has launched a new inquiry to examine investment in Northern Ireland. The new inquiry will investigate the impact of UK Government investment strategies in the region and ask what more can be done to encourage new jobs and economic growth in Northern Ireland. Read the [...]
Economy Minister Gordon Lyons today announced a new grant to support local businesses to develop and implement innovative projects. The £4million Economic Recovery Innovation Grant (ERIG) will provide up to £5,000 of support to SMEs develop new, or improve existing, products, services or processes through innovation. ERIG is a new [...]
This programme, delivered by the RAEng's Enterprise Hub, will support promising leaders of high-growth tech and engineering SMEs which display excellence in engineering. The Shott Scale Up Accelerator programme was previously known as the SME Leaders programme. The programme received a major boost through a gift from entrepreneur Ian Shott CBE [...]
Do you dream of starting up your own business, changing the world and being your own boss? The Royal Academy of Engineering has just launched its Regional Talent Engines programme. This is a new offer which will provide a tailored programme of support to aspiring engineering and technology entrepreneurs in [...]
Applications are now open for a third round of funding from the UK Seafood Innovation Fund. Continuing to support a sustainable future for the UK seafood, the programme seeks ideas from innovators looking to introduce novel and practical solutions into the sector. The programme has also announced £1.5m of follow-on [...]