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Marine-i offers world-class testing support to local marine tech businesses

Marine-i is calling on local marine tech businesses to take advantage of fully-funded testing capacity available at its partner sites this year to accelerate their innovation.

Part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund, Marine-i is designed to help the marine technology sector in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly grow through harnessing the full potential of research and...

SETsquared Exeter Startups Weekend

Getting the most from your MVP (and why you need one)

Insight provided by Colin Dart, Technology Manager at SETsquared Exeter

Throughout my time supporting tech start-ups with SETsquared Exeter, I have found myself giving one particular piece of advice regularly. “You need an MVP”.

It’s a simple piece of advice that opens up an area of activity that is often misunderstood. This isn’t a surprise either. Given the fast paced,...

Future Space

Over 100 innovation startups supported by SW University Enterprise Zone

More than 100 innovative businesses have been supported by Future Space, launched just five years ago in 2016 by the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol), a new report has revealed.

Managed for the university by Oxford Innovation , Future Space provides office space, labs, workshops, and co-working space at the heart of the University’s main Frenchay Campus.

One...

Cotie building

SETsquared Exeter and Cotie unite to boost North Devon technology cluster

SETsquared Exeter and Cotie (Centre of Technology and Innovation Excellence) in North Devon have announced a new partnership to provide a combination of facilities and expertise to innovative technology businesses.

The University of Exeter Enterprise Zone (UEEZ) project, made possible due to funding from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), has boosted the expansion of its...

VR innovation

Funding announced for data analytical and digital innovation projects in HotSW region

The Heart of the South West (HotSW) Local Enterprise Partnership has announced a new funding call for projects to tackle key economic and societal challenges through data analytics and digital innovation, a priority in the region’s Build Back Better plan.

The Heart of the South West LEP has identified ‘Digital’ as the highest priority for investment to deliver clean and inclusive...

Melissa Thorpe, head of Spaceport Cornwall

Spaceport Cornwall's Melissa Thorpe named as one to watch in 2022

The head of the UK’s first horizontal spaceport, based in Cornwall, has been named by the Observer as one of 2022’s “faces to watch”.

Melissa Thorpe, head of Spaceport Cornwall in Newquay, has been named alongside incoming Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal and UK foreign secretary Liz Truss as a key figure “who will be making headlines this year”.

Ms Thorpe is joined in the science...

Students looking at computers

South West universities named among UK's best startup producers

Two universities in the South West have been named in Tide’s University Start-Up League , which ranks the UK’s top universities for producing startup businesses.

Cornwall’s Falmouth University came third in the rankings, having generated over 1000 viable startups since 2014/15.

Falmouth is the highest-ranked university in the report outside of London.

The report...

Innovation

£40m raised for SW innovators with Innovate UK EDGE in 2021

Since launching in January 2021, Innovate UK EDGE has driven growth across the South West, helping regional innovators to raise over £27m in equity investments and loans, and more than £13m in grant funding.

Ambitious businesses from Penzance to Cheltenham have worked with Innovate UK EDGE Finance Specialists to identify appropriate funding sources, become investment ready and submit...

Stars

Rising Stars: Top five early-stage tech companies in SW revealed

Tech Nation has today announced the 5 South West Regional Winners of its fourth Rising Stars competition, which recognises the brightest and best early-stage tech scaleups from every area of the UK. In total, 55 fast-growing tech companies from across the UK have been named this year’s Regional Winners - 5 within each UK region. Previous years’ Rising Stars Regional Winners have included...

A rugby game

Could this Bristol-born tech revolutionise goal line technology?

A patent has been granted for a new goal line technology that could replace TMO, VAR and Hawk-Eye at sporting events.

Current designs rely on cameras which track a ball’s trajectory to check if it crossed the line.

But the new patent, developed by University of Bristol research engineer Patrick Sullivan and University of Bristol philosopher Dr Mo Abolkheir, would use...

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