Economy

New £40m Nottingham campus to provide a springboard into business for graduates

A new city centre campus will provide a pathway into business for University of Nottingham graduates.

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A perfect 10 in 2022 for Manchester's Innovation Factory

Ten brand new Manchester-based biomedical, science and engineering companies have been created in the past year by the University of Manchester Innovation Factory

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Durham University - turning student ideas into new North East businesses

Student entrepreneurs at Durham University are able to access wraparound support to help develop ideas in a state-of-the-art new facility that will help build a network of new businesses in the North East.

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University of Leeds – driving cost transparency in pension funds to boost investment outcomes

Research at University of Leeds has helped standardise data around pension investments, improving simplicity and transparency for the costs and fees in the industry. By making it easier to collect data, new templates designed by Leeds academics alongside the FCA and enhanced transparency are saving pension funds trillions of pounds.

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Imperial College London - Breaking new ground in the field of medical technology

The MedTech Superconnector based at Imperial College London's White City Innovation District is supporting researchers to break new ground in the field of medical technology and apply work from the arts and science to early-stage technologies. It has been backed by Research England to expand across the UK

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University of Warwick - Making green carbon fibre viable for business

Researchers at the University of Warwick have helped to develop new recycled carbon fibre that is more business friendly. Thanks to their work annual sales of the recycled product grew from £300,000 to £2million in two years and delivered huge ecological benefits.

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University of Southampton - Building a world leading photonics cluster

The University of Southampton has used quality related (QR) funding to set up the Zepler Institute and establish the city as one of the UK's top tech superclusters. Examples of the tech it has commercialised include fibres used by NASA in the Mars Explorer.

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University of Sheffield - Helping Yorkshire lead the way in high-value manufacturing

The Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre, set up at the University of Sheffield in 2001, has a global reputation for helping companies overcome manufacturing problems and works with over 125 companies including Rolls-Royce, McLaren and BAE.

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Queen's University Belfast - Revolutionising online security

A cutting-edge cyber security cluster based at Queen's University Belfast is building a new pipeline of skilled workers as well as collaborating with public and private sector organisations to establish Northern Ireland as a leading investment location for international projects.

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Queen Mary University London - Supporting cutting edge life science businesses

The Queen Mary BioEnterprises Innovation Centre is helping life science businesses across the capital turn their ideas into real-world applications such as vaccines and anti-viral treatments.

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