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Business Navigator wins new contracts to build on West of England success

Release date: Fri 10th May 2013 Contact: Christian Annesley

The developer of a web portal that lets West of England businesses find local support and events has won two new contracts to redevelop the platform for other communities.

Business Navigator – found at www.... read more»

Search is on for UK's most innovative wireless start-ups

Release date: Fri 10th May 2013 Contact: Laura Downton
Search is on for UK's most innovative wireless start-ups

Launch of nationwide Discovering Start-Ups 2013 competition

10 May 2013: Show us what you've got! That's the message from Discovering Start-Ups 2013, which is urging wireless start-up companies in the South to enter its national competition to find the best of the best.

Discovering... read more»

Major investment set to transform healthcare

Release date: Thu 9th May 2013 Contact: Andy Dunne
Major investment set to transform healthcare

Physicists from the University of Bath will take a leading role in developing new technologies that could transform healthcare, thanks to a major investment announced today ... read more»

Digital TV Labs Becomes DLNA Independent Certification Vendor

Release date: Thu 25th Apr 2013 Contact: Van Balasundaram
Digital TV Labs Becomes DLNA Independent Certification Vendor

Bristol, UK – 24th April 2013: Digital TV Labs, global leaders in specialised digital media conformance tools, test services and professional services, has today announced that it is now a DLNA accredited Independent Certification Vendor... read more»

Socially-responsible SETsquared students score hat trick

Release date: Wed 24th Apr 2013 Contact: Laura Downton
Socially-responsible SETsquared students score hat trick
  • Students from SETsquared universities win big at Enactus competition
  • SETsquared supports social enterprises as well as tech businesses

Entrepreneurial students from... read more»

Bugs produce diesel on demand

Release date: Wed 24th Apr 2013 Contact: Dr Jo Bowler
Bugs produce diesel on demand

It sounds like science fiction but a team from the University of Exeter, with support from Shell, has developed a method to make bacteria produce diesel on demand. While the technology still faces many significant commercialisation challenges, the diesel, produced by special strains of E. coli... read more»

SETsquared students win national competition with what could be ‘next big app’

Release date: Tue 9th Apr 2013 Contact: Laura Downton
SETsquared students win national competition with what could be ‘next big app’
  •  SETsquared students win UK final of Microsoft Imagine Cup
  •  Youngsters have already secured £10,000 investment for their app

A group of university students have potentially created the ‘... read more»

Exciting and original technologies made freely available by University

Release date: Tue 2nd Apr 2013
Exciting and original technologies made freely available by University

The University of Exeter has joined Easy Access IP, which promotes new ways of sharing intellectual property (IP). 

The University will be making selected intellectual property – patents, copyright, designs and know-how – available free to businesses which are... read more»

SETsquared at the University of Southampton secures nearly £65,000 to create an open innovation ecosystem

Release date: Wed 27th Mar 2013 Contact: Laura Downton
SETsquared at the University of Southampton secures nearly £65,000 to create an open innovation ecosystem

SETsquared, a leading university enterprise partnership in the UK has secured £64,750 of funding to establish and encourage open innovation between big businesses, primes, universities and SMEs.

SETsquared, a... read more»

Exeter student strikes gold with physics display in Parliament

Release date: Tue 19th Mar 2013 Contact: Jo Bowler
Exeter student strikes gold with physics display in Parliament

Claire Woollacott, 24, a PhD Postgraduate Research Student from the School of Physics at the University of Exeter, struck gold at a competition in the House of Commons yesterday for excellence in her physics research, walking away with a £3,000 prize.

Claire, who is originally from... read more»