Tag: funding
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UK-Malaysia urban innovation challenge 2017 – Sign up!
UK businesses can apply for a share of £3 million to work with Malaysian partners on innovative urban solutions in Malaysia. Competition opens: Tuesday 2 May 2017 Registration closes: Wednesday 30 August 2017 12:00pm Innovate UK is investing up to £3 million for projects that use cutting-edge solutions to improve cities in Malaysia. The aim…
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It’s sunnier on the Canadian innovation front
A bright spot has emerged amid the persistent gloom over Canada’s supposed decline in research and innovation performance. Traditional innovation indicators such as corporate research and development spending only provide information on inputs to innovation, not outputs. Against a backdrop of falling corporate investment in R&D, it seems Canadian inventiveness has taken a turn for…
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Canada’s innovation Budget 2017
Justin Trudeau’s government has talked a good game on innovation and skills development, but this year’s budget looks like more of the same In some ways, Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s second budget is a vanilla-flavoured budget—generally acceptable and unlikely to offend most people. The government stays the course of Budget 2016, expanding on areas like…
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Canada Has An Innovation Problem?
Canada is a vast country with ample resources, however political and economic machinery in this country are not open enough to create true and genuine marketplace for disruptive ideas. Cultural, artistic and intellectual innovation form the foundation of innovative economies. No nation can stay competitive and economically advanced while stagnating culturally and intellectually. Innovation requires…
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Innovation Fund launches Funding from Natural Gas Cleantech Innovators
OTTAWA, July 31, 2017 /CNW/ – The Natural Gas Innovation Fund (NGIF) is accepting submissions for funding to support natural gas cleantech research, demonstration and deployment innovation projects in Canada. NGIF was created by the Canadian Gas Association (CGA) in 2016 to support the funding of innovation in the natural gas value chain. It selects…
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Innovate UK offers £8m to fund digital healthcare innovation. Sign up !
To support a growing, ageing population, Innovate UK is making up to £8m available to UK businesses to develop new and novel digital healthcare solutions. This competition is being run under the digital health technology catalyst, which is part of the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund. The aim is to support the development of digital health…
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The rise of “deep-tech” is boosting Paris’s startup scene
Less misérable The capital now leads Europe for the number of venture-capital funding rounds EUROPE will never create a hub of tech firms and investors to rival Silicon Valley, many experts on entrepreneurship concur. Its markets are still fragmented along national lines, flows of capital into the region are limited and because of lingering,…
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Como a França se destaca na cena internacional de fomento ao empreendedorismo
Por Felipe Callado Quando se fala de polos de empreendedorismo e startups no mundo, geralmente os lugares que vêm à mente são o Vale do Silício e São Francisco. Mas a verdade é que, com o boom do empreendedorismo nas últimas décadas, mais pontos em diferentes continentes têm se destacado. Entre eles estão Londres, famosa…
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Innovation isn’t in your workplace
You sit through strategy planning meetings or retreats. Goals are set. Everyone is excited. You’re convinced about the new corporate direction. Four months later, nothing happens. More talks follow and still, little or no action – even Marvin Gaye would ask, “what’s going on?” So, how can you tell that your innovation meetings are just…
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UK Gov’t unveils £86m package to support SMEs
14th July 2017 Health minister Lord O’Shaughnessy has unveiled a new package of support worth up to £86 million to help innovative UK businesses develop medical breakthroughs that are then used across the NHS. The funding marks the first step in taking forward recommendations made in the Accelerated Access Review (AAR), which aim to accelerate…
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