Swedish Space Corporation (SSC), based at Harwell Campus, has invested in GlobalTrust, a data analytics company, which supports public policy and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) strategies. GlobalTrust, began its UK operation at the end of 2020, taking office space at the Harwell Campus, Oxfordshire – further...
A new national rocket test facility, based in Aylesbury Vale Enterprise Zone, part of the Thames Valley, will allow UK companies and academics to test state-of-the-art space propulsion engines at up to 1.5kN in high-altitude vacuum, an equivalent test altitude of 140,000ft. The new cutting-edge facility...
The University of Reading has entered into an agreement with affiliates of Commonwealth Real Estate LP, a film studios investor based in Los Angeles, for a long lease of land at the University’s Thames Valley Science Park campus, Berkshire, which will see the development of a major...
A new engineering hub and test facility, backed by government funding and the European Space Agency contract, is set to be built at Harwell Campus, based in Oxfordshire. The new facility will provide a space for UK researchers and businesses to experiment and will focus on...
The importance of digital technology, health and wellbeing investment has grown amid the pandemic, providing a boost in attractiveness for the South East as a destination for foreign direct investors, according to the recently published EY UK Attractiveness Survey report. The report found that these...
The UK-Canada have launched the worlds first Quantum Technologies Competition. Run jointly by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), there are 8 named winning projects that will lead the collaboration between academia, industry and the...
Oxford University, via Oxford University Innovation, has created its 200th spinout company based off academic research. The new company PhishAR, will build on Professor Ivan Martinovic and Dr Ivo Sluganovic’s work from the Department of Computer Science. PhishAR will employ augmented reality and crack down on...
The Rosalind Franklin Institute, in collaboration with MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (MRC LMB) and Diamond Light Source, have been awarded a £25m grant from Wellcome. The grant will aid the development of a trio of electron imaging physical sciences technologies which will alter how we...
To research 5G and satellite communications in the UK, O2, based in Slough, has launched the first commercial laboratory at Harwell Campus in Oxford. The new laboratory, named Darwin SatCom lab, aims to research future generation connectivity solutions for connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs). In collaboration...
Minister for Science, Research and Innovation, Amanda Solloway, has announced the opening of the UK’s new National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC), which will open its doors at the world-famous Harwell Science and Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire. Uniting academia, Government and businesses together, the Centre will...