Categoria: funding
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Need to source R&D funding? There’s an app for that
Minister of State for Training and Skills John Halligan, TD, and KTI director Dr Alison Campbell. Image: Conor McCabe Photography Knowledge Transfer Ireland helps businesses to benefit from access to Irish expertise and technology. Knowledge Transfer Ireland (KTI) has created a new tool to find R&D funding and help organisations to get their research projects…
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Medtronic to Establish Innovation Center in China
Facilitating Clinical Training for Physicians and Advancing Local Healthcare Efficiency in Central and Western China DUBLIN and CHENGDU, Sichuan – October 10, 2017 – Medtronic plc (NYSE:MDT) today announced the groundbreaking of its Chengdu Innovation Center at the Singapore-Sichuan Hi-Tech Innovation Park in Sichuan Province. Set to open in 2020, this center will provide a…
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What is the Litter Innovation Fund?
Litter comes in all shapes and sizes – bottles, bags and even much bigger items. It clutters up our streets and public spaces, but it’s more than just an eyesore. Litter can cause serious problems for wildlife, motorists and people in their homes. How do we stop it? Raising awareness is a potential way…
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French government proposes big science-spending boost
Ludovic Marin/AFP/Getty Images Frédérique Vidal, France’s higher education, research and innovation minister, said the budget would give ‘fresh oxygen’ to the country’s research. French research funding is set for a heartening increase in the country’s first budget under President Emmanuel Macron, if draft 2018 plans released on 27 September are voted into law. The research portfolio…
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INCOBRA abre nova chamada para cooperação entre Brasil e União Europeia
Com o objetivo de fomentar e fortalecer a cooperação mútua entre atores de pesquisa, desenvolvimento e inovação (PD&I) brasileiros e da União Europeia (UE), o projeto INCOBRA lança uma nova chamada de manifestação de interesse para a criação de uma rede de cooperação bilateral Brasil-Europa. Os candidatos têm até 15 de dezembro…
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Samsung cria fundo de US$ 300 milhões para startups da indústria automotiva
Iniciativa busca desenvolvimento de soluções para carros autônomos e conectados A Samsung Electronics acaba de estabelecer o Samsung Automotive Innovation Fund, um novo fundo de US$ 300 milhões focado no mercado automotivo. A iniciativa visa o desenvolvimento de tecnologias para automóveis conectados e autônomos, incluindo sensores inteligentes, inteligência artificial, computação de alto desempenho, soluções de…
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France sees innovation fund yielding 200 million euro for investments
PARIS (Reuters) – The French government expects an innovation fund it is setting up to generate 200 million euros ($239 million) a year to finance investments, Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Thursday. The government started a drive this month to sell off corporate stakes not considered as strategic in order to redeploy scarce…
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Initial coin offerings (ICOs) will become a major way for start-ups to raise funds in the future
Regulators are scrutinizing the new red-hot fundraising trend in which start-ups and blockchain companies bring in millions of dollars by issuing virtual tokens to investors in exchange for money. But one Japanese billionaire investor thinks that, with time, the so-called initial coin offerings (ICOs) will become one of the “greatest major methods” for start-ups to…
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Hong Kong Innovation and Technology Venture Fund opens for application by venture capital funds
HONG KONG, Sept. 18 (Xinhua) — China’s Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) has launched an Innovation and Technology Venture Fund (ITVF) of 2 billion Hong Kong dollars (256 million U.S. dollars) to encourage venture capital funds’ investment in local innovation and technology start-ups. The fund is open for application from venture capital funds until…
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