Tag: manchester
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The hive for innovation in Manchester: Mi-IDEA
Nick Chrissos, Director of Innovation, Europe, Strategic Innovation Group, Cisco In the city that takes the bee as its symbol, Manchester has been building a hive of its own: Mi-IDEA. Mi-IDEA (Manchester Inspired Innovation Digital Enterprise Alliance) is run in partnership between Cisco and Manchester Science Partnerships (MSP), the UK’s leading science park operator to form a…
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Brexit Is Quietly Strangling Science
Illustration: Jack Sachs By Simon Parkin A Nobel Prize winning physicist considers taking his research elsewhere, while applications from foreign researchers have plummeted. For many years Andre Geim was best known for designing an experiment that looked more like a parlor trick than a serious piece of scientific research. One Friday evening, in a moment…
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Manchester is the winner of Innovation award for wearable medical
A wearable medical device that monitors kidney function and could reduce the time spent by transplant patients in hospital has won a prestigious innovation award. IF Sensing has claimed the Merseyside Innovation Award (MIA) for April 2017. The company was founded in 2012 as a spin-out from Central Manchester University Teaching Hospital Trust and University…
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Manchester in UK is the newest place to innovate
Hoje Consulting in Innovation is opening a hub in Manchester. Cisco is to open an innovation centre in Manchester focusing on the development of smart cities, the Internet of Things (IoT) and healthcare and creative digital technologies. The centre will be set up with the Manchester Science Partnerships (MSP) made up from the city’s two…