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...
Heathrow and Lord David Blunkett have published the ‘Heathrow Local Recovery Plan’, in partnership with key local stakeholders. The plan sets out a clear agenda for the recovery of Heathrow’s local economies after new research warned COVID-19 could result in 16,000 fewer jobs around the...
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...
Oxford University’s enduring global reputation, cutting edge research and unique teaching environment have helped the University retain first place in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings for a fifth year in a row. An examination of the key indicators assessed by the rankings (see HERE)...
Quad Two will be an expansion of Harwell’s Science and Innovation Campus, located in Oxfordshire, taking up 47,000 sq. ft in a Grade A development to produce further office space for companies. The building will generate flexible office space, allowing three out of four floors...
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...
Barclays hosted a weeklong online launch event, starting with Entrepreneurs in Oxford: how to scale and succeed and ending with a Fireside chat with Spintex Engineering, to celebrate its new lab launch. The new Oxford base Barclays Eagle Lab joins twenty-four others which aid near...
A new multi-million pound, 1,200m2 Innovation Centre has opened in Buckinghamshire based in the Aylesbury Vale Enterprise Zone. The Westcott Innovation Centre is partly funded by the Local Growth Fund and Aylesbury Vale Enterprise Zone through the Buckinghamshire Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) and managed by Satellite...
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...