EPSRC is funding the creation of a high quality NetworkPlus to underpin new academic and business partnerships within the financial services sector. A total fund of £2.5m is available. Read the full competition announcement The following financial services sectors will be eligible: FinTech regulatory technology (RegTech) insurance regulation accounting business [...]
Tech Nation have announced that applications for Rising Stars 4.0 are now open. Applications close on 20 October 2021. Rising Stars 4.0 is the UK’s only truly national scaleup competition, designed to be accessible to the best early-stage tech companies from all areas of the country. Entrants are supported throughout the [...]
A new ‘Civic Dollars’ mobile phone app, developed with support from Belfast City Council and the Department of Justice means that people can now earn rewards for the time they spend in their local parks and open spaces. The Connswater Community Greenway will be the first area to go live [...]
Connected Places Catapult has announced that a Northern Ireland consortium and Sunderland City Council are to be the first two location partners in its Homes for Healthy Ageing Programme. The Northern Ireland consortium will comprise: Ulster University Connected Health Innovation Centre (CHIC) Queen’s University Belfast Age NI Belfast City Council [...]
The safety management requirement to record the presence of sailors on board ships is being overhauled using new technologies developed by Belfast company Kinsetsu which are currently being trialled by the Royal Navy. The traditional system for recording sailors entering or leaving a vessel is a simple pegging in/out board. [...]
Northern Ireland businesses are invited to apply for the UK's most prestigious business award. The Queen's Awards for Enterprise recognise and encourage the outstanding achievements of UK businesses in the fields of: innovation international trade sustainable development promoting opportunity (through social mobility) Businesses of all sizes and from all sectors [...]
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 [...]
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has launched the sequel to last year’s Future Fund: Breakthrough (FF:B). It’s a new £375m UK-wide scheme which will encourage private investors to co-invest with the government in high-growth, innovative firms. Research and development intensive businesses receiving an investment round of £30m or more will be able [...]
The US space agency NASA has awarded IceMOS with a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) project to develop radiation-tolerant high-voltage MOSFET transistors as part of their "From Moon to Mars" project which will see a return to astronauts landing on the lunar surface for the first time since the 1970s [...]
Belfast Region City Deal partners are poised and ready to deliver on the Minister for the Economy Diane Dodd’s ambitious new economic vision ‘10X’, which will lead to better jobs with better wages and an improvement in people’s quality of life. The 10X vision recognises that the City and Growth [...]
CaSE (The Campaign for Science and Engineering) has secured a £1.1 million grant, “A new voice for R&D investment”, from the Wellcome Trust to build a campaign that can transform public support for R&D investment, as the next phase of its ‘R&D Decade’ project. The Covid-19 pandemic has only reinforced [...]
Matrix has published a new report on Strategic Innovation Opportunities in Northern Ireland. The Matrix commissioned report was produced by Ulster University’s Economic Policy Centre (UU EPC) and shows that, whilst Northern Ireland falls behind other UK regions in terms of innovation, the region is a leader for universities producing [...]