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 [...]
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. [...]
A new Edge Computing Hub, based at Queen's University Belfast (QUB), aims to unlock the scientific and societal opportunities in the next Internet frontier, Edge computing. Edge computing will impact every Internet user in the world as it will become the way the Internet will work behind the scenes. It [...]
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 [...]
INDUSTRY chiefs are continuing a drive to improve the diversity of talent working in cyber security by launching the second survey for people working in the sector. This year’s survey, which is conducted by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) – a part of GCHQ – and KPMG UK, has been [...]
The Economy Minister today launched her ambitious economic vision which will lead to better jobs with better wages and an improvement in people’s quality of life. In '10X Economy: An Economic Vision for a decade of innovation' Minister Diane Dodds outlines the steps her Department will take to ensure Northern [...]
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 [...]
The Horizon 2020 (European Framework Programme 8 for Research and Innovation) ran under the seven year Multi-annual Financial Framework (MFF) 2014-2020 and ended with final calls (Green Deal) closing in January 2021. Projects funded under Horizon 2020, some only commencing later this year, may run for up to 5 years [...]
A new report published by Matrix suggests that with the correct investment, Artificial Intelligence (AI) can help Northern Ireland businesses into economic recovery. Read the full report Read the executive summary Chaired by Dr Adrian Johnston MBE, this study builds on the 2019 Matrix report “AI Research in Northern Ireland” [...]
The NHS AI Lab Skunkworks is looking to find, fund and resource the most promising AI experimentation in the health and care ecosystem. Giuseppe Sollazzo, Head of NHS AI Lab’s Skunkworks, urges NHS and HSC colleagues to consider their workplace problems and apply to pitch them in a Dragon’s Den-style [...]
A Northern Ireland nano technology consortium has been awarded seed corn funding of £50,000 to develop a bid to compete for a share of a £236 million fund with projects from across the UK. The funding, which will take the consortium to the next stage of the competitive process, has been awarded by [...]
The second annual AI CON is open for registration and the programme is now live and available to view online now. This year’s event will take place virtually on Thursday 3rd & Friday 4th December and will be broadcast live from the AI CON studio in Belfast. We will bring [...]