A cyber-security company was the big winner at a new awards event. The awards were part of a three day event called Innovate UK 2013, which is a joint venture by the Technology Strategy Board (TSB) and UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) aimed ...
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Advanced surface coating specialist Hardide Coatings has secured a grant of up to £250,000 under the Technology Strategy Board’s ‘Smart’ scheme to commercialize a novel coating that will enable a new generation of ...
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Glasgow City Council is set to research street lighting’s impact on criminal activity, after receiving a £24 million technology grant. The city beat 30 other UK cities to claim a £24 million prize as a result of ...
Raytheon of Waltham, MA, USA has officially opened a new manufacturing facility for silicon carbide (SiC) foundry at Raytheon Glenrothes in Scotland (part of subsidiary Raytheon UK, a contractor to the UK Ministry of Defence). Developed ...
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Following six years of R&D, Raytheon has opened a silicon carbide fab in Glenrothes Scotland which will offer foundry services as well as its own line of high-temperature ICs. Its SiC process has been developed on-site, with Government ...
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Two years after the Prime Minister announced that the Technology Strategy Board would create a national network of government-funded technology centres, Iain Gray, chief executive of the TSB, will announce today seven centres will open this ...
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Glasgow is to receive £24m of government investment to become "a city of the future". Glasgow is to host the Technology Strategy Board’s ‘Future Cities Demonstrator’ for showing the impact technology can ...
The government has set up a £1m funding competition for robotics and autonomous systems (RAS) technology in the UK. The investment by the Technology Strategy Board is for feasibility studies to accelerate the development of RAS ...
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The Open Data Institute (ODI) opened for business in December, underlining the UK’s position as a world leader in the field. The Technology Strategy Board is a key funder of the new institute providing £2 m per year over the ...
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The morning workshop entitled "Finance and Advice support for lighting manufacturers in respect of R&D, lighting refurbishment and exporting" comprised of four presentations given by: Geoff Smyth from the Carbon Trust, Nicola O'Connell - ...
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Banks and investors have joined forces with outsourcing giant Accenture to open a laboratory in London to develop technology for the financial services sector. The FinTech Innovation Lab,as it is known,will attempt to find technology ...
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The “Industrial Internet” (or Internet of Things) has the potential to add $10-15 trillion to global GDP by 2030 and reduce billions of dollars worth of waste across major industries such as healthcare, energy and ...
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The UK government has provided funds to Endomagnetics to explore the clinical feasibility of applying magnetic sentinel lymph node (SLN) technology for detecting melanoma cancer. The grant is a part of the first round of ...
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Waitrose has launched a Farming Partnership initiative, which it says further demonstrates its commitment to UK farming. The Waitrose Farming Partnership is the new umbrella under which all the retailer's "agricultural farmer-focused ...
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The UK government has provided more than 11m GBP worth of funding to 34 major business-led collaborative food processing and manufacturing development projects, in a move which secures the country’s leadership in food technology. ...
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