The Institute of Railway Research (IRR) at the University of Huddersfield carries out innovative, world-leading research into the interaction between railway vehicles and the track. This work is helping the railway industry to reduce costs and improve safety levels by furthering the understanding of how wheels interact with the track and the resulting deterioration due to wear […]
Kingston University’s internationally recognised Small Business Research Centre is carrying out a study looking in to the knowledge and skills needed by social entrepreneurs to successfully run community energy projects. The end goal is to compile a bank of evidence about these entrepreneurs, the activities they implement and the challenges they have to contend with. […]
Kingston University supports up to 15 graduates each year by awarding them entrepreneur visas. One student to have benefitted from such a visa is MA Product and Space graduate Hend Krichen. The visa helped Hend, who is originally from the Tunisian Republic, to establish her artisan business designing intricate homeware products both in the UK […]
Nottingham Trent University is to receive a share of £10.1 million in European funding designed to help more than 2,000 businesses boost their innovation. Three universities – Nottingham Trent University, the University of Nottingham and the University of Derby – bid for the money from the D2N2 Local Enterprise Partnership’s (LEP) €251m European Structural and […]
An interdisciplinary team from the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) and the Bristol Robotics Laboratory is playing a key role in development of Connected Autonomous vehicles (CAVs) that have the potential to transform the lives of isolated older adults through creation of independent travel options. The ‘Flourish’ project co-funded by Innovate UK involves partners […]
Universities offer so much more to a thriving innovation ecosystem than through the commercialisation of their research. They also contribute four important resources that help businesses (especially micro and small firms) to innovate and scale up. This includes knowledge from around the world that can transform business process, services or products, skilled and adaptable employees to […]
Follow this link for case studies from Alliance universities Ministers should treat universities as “active partners” in national innovation policy, according to a new publication from University Alliance. The report, Creating Innovative Regions: The role of universities in local growth and productivity, finds that the contribution universities make to UK innovation goes deeper than is generally acknowledged […]
An entrepreneur who had already turned his creative hobby into a profitable photography business before starting his business degree has further success in his sights as a result of how his University encourages student businesses to thrive. Greg McClarnon, an entrepreneur from Horsham in West Sussex and a Business Studies graduate from the University of […]
The Hive is a purpose-built centre for entrepreneurship and enterprise at Nottingham Trent University, designed to support and nurture students and graduates’ businesses through the early development stages to sustainability and growth. Since 2001, it has helped more than 400 companies to start up and almost 70% of those businesses are still trading and prospering […]
The University of Lincoln is addressing historic skill shortages and creating new opportunities for investment in science technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) by working with key regional employers to create a multi-million pound science park in the city’s industrial heartland. Lincoln Science and Innovation Park is a public-private sector partnership between the University of Lincoln […]