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August 2021

Royal Academy of Engineering Enterprise Fellowships open for applications

2021-08-10T16:27:37+01:00August 10th, 2021|Advanced Materials & Engineering|

The Royal Academy of Engineering has opened a call for its Enterprise Fellowships programme. This programme supports creative and entrepreneurial engineers who have an exceptional innovation that they plan to develop further. The programme aims to equip engineers with the confidence, skills, experience and networks needed to bring innovation to [...]

The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise: apply now

2021-08-04T09:26:33+01:00August 4th, 2021|Innovation|

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 [...]

July 2021

UK Innovation Strategy published

2021-07-22T14:36:57+01:00July 22nd, 2021|Government, Innovation|

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 [...]

Future Fund: Breakthrough is open for applications

2021-07-22T11:13:19+01:00July 22nd, 2021|Innovation, Intellectual Property|

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 [...]

UKRI Funding of £42.4m for Smart Nano NI

2021-07-22T09:21:50+01:00July 22nd, 2021|Advanced Materials & Engineering|

£42.4 m has been awarded to Smart Nano NI - a Northern Ireland nano technology consortium to develop new technology for medical devices, communication and data storage.  The funding, which has been awarded by the UK Research and Innovation’s (UKRI) Strength in Places Fund presents a game-changing opportunity for Northern Ireland’s nano technology and manufacturing sector [...]

June 2021

IceMOS awarded NASA “From Moon to Mars” project

2021-06-15T10:54:03+01:00June 15th, 2021|Innovation|

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 [...]

DfE reports almost half of NI’s Electricity is from renewables

2021-06-07T10:23:41+01:00June 7th, 2021|Sustainable Energy|

The ‘Electricity Consumption and Renewable Generation in Northern Ireland: Year ending March 2021’ report details the percentage of electricity consumption in Northern Ireland generated from renewable sources and includes information on the type of renewable generation used. The report reflects performance against the 2011-15 Programme for Government target which was [...]

May 2021

Digitisation has important role in local economic recovery – Dodds

2021-05-26T13:47:38+01:00May 26th, 2021|ICT & Digital|

Economy Minister Diane Dodds has highlighted the important role digitisation has to play in economic recovery. The Minister met with Gareth Quinn and Andrew Trimble from early stage start-up tech company Kairos Sports Tech Ltd to discuss challenges and opportunities that exist for similar businesses within the Northern Ireland start-up ecosystem. [...]

Making the “R&D Decade” a reality

2021-05-24T10:11:02+01:00May 24th, 2021|Innovation|

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 [...]

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