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£12m Bristol project looks at healthcare home sensor systems

admin — Thu, 09 May 2013 10:32:34 +0000

The University of Bristol is leading a new £12m project to look at the use of sensors for healthcare in the home. The SPHERE (Sensor Platform for HEalthcare in a Residential Environment) project will work in partnership with Bristol City Council, IBM, Toshiba and Knowle West Media Centre (KWMC) as well as the Universities of Southampton and [...]

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EU to set up its own billion euro fund for startups

admin — Fri, 03 May 2013 10:33:29 +0000

The European Union is to set up its own fund worth billions of euros to invest in startups and spinouts across Europe. The fund will start in January and is part of the new EC Horizon 2020 programme which also starts in 2014 and replaces FP7 and CIP. Crucially, a part of this support is [...]

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Free High-Tech Sector Business Funding Workshop

admin — Thu, 02 May 2013 14:19:42 +0000

Tuesday 14th May 16:00 pm to 19:00 pm Offices of Osborne Clarke, Central Bristol (Close to Temple Meads) This event is aimed at the region’s Science and Technology businesses, sponsored by the West of England Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) and Osborne Clarke LLP. All sizes of business are welcome to attend. Come and find out [...]

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April’s LEP High Tech newsletter is out

admin — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 12:33:18 +0000

The April issue of the LEP High Tech sector group newsletter is out now: Cisco moves into the region with $130m buy New advisors for funding schemes in the region New world leading centres for medical testing and energy harvesting Bristol firm in £8m robotics project for nuclear industry Consultancy helps lead £5m combat systems [...]

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Cisco to buy Ubiquisys for $310m

admin — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 15:29:35 +0000

Swindon small cell pioneer Ubiquisys is to be bought by US giant Cisco Systems for $310m. Ubiquisys is a leading provider of intelligent 3G and LTE (Long-Term Evolution) small-cell (or femtocell) technologies that provides seamless connectivity across mobile networks for service providers and this marks one of the largest European exits in recent months. It [...]

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New biomedical testing centre opens in Bristol

admin — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 16:45:39 +0000

An innovative new centre for biomedical testing aims to provide leading edge research and skills to firms in the region working in medicine, pharmaceuticals and genetics. The Centre for Alternative Testing and In-Vitro Monitoring (CATIM) is a consortium, led by the Institute of Bio-Sensing Technology, UWE Bristol with the other partners, the University of Bristol, Gooch and Housego, the European Collection of Cell [...]

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Engine Shed project forms heart of innovation for Bristol & Bath region

admin — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 14:01:22 +0000

A £1.5 million project aims to create a focus for innovation and creative industries in the Bristol and bath region. The Engine Shed, which was built by Brunel and previously housed the Empire and Commonwealth Museum at the entrance to Bristol Temple Meads station, will host Bristol’s business incubator and inward investment team as well [...]

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Bristol designed & manufactured AlphaSphere goes global

admin — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 10:47:53 +0000

The first models of a new electronic musical instrument – the AlphaSphere ‘elite’ – will be dispatched to locations all across the world this week after a year long development. The Bristol based developer nu desine has been taking pre-orders since April 2012 based on interest which was generated by a production prototype being demonstrated at [...]

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Bristol firm drives down cost of complex silicon chips

admin — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 14:40:12 +0000

XMOS Semiconductor in Bristol is launching a new chip that dramatically reduces the cost of processing for industrial designs. The xCORE XS1-L4-64 integrates four 32bit processor cores at a price under $3 that is comparable with competing single-core devices but gives ten times the processing power. The devices are used in a wide range of [...]

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Renishaw microscope used in leading graphene research

admin — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 10:54:12 +0000

A specialist microscope developed and built in Gloustershire is being used in new research that addresses one of the major hindrances to the wider exploitation of graphene: the difficulty in growing large defect-free films. The Renishaw inVia Raman microscope is being used by an international team—led by Oxford University scientists Professor Nicole Grobert and Adrian Murdock— in collaboration [...]

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