Tag: uk
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Velocity accelerator firms score $1.4 M in funding
Birmingham’s Velocity Accelerator Program is off to a prosperous start in more ways than one. The new program, which launched last year and aimed to boost the profile of Birmingham’s startup scene and help entrepreneurs grow their businesses, wrapped up its first year in April with its Demo Day. Enlarge Innovation Depot, the location of…
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Projetos de inovação receberão apoio financeiro dos governos brasileiro e britânico
Agência CT&I O edital de Projetos de Cooperação Brasil-Reino Unido selecionou sete projetos de inovação de empresas da Bahia, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais e Paraná, feitos em parceria com empresas britânicas. As iniciativas receberão apoio financeiro na ordem de R$ 14 milhões dos dois governos. Aprovados conjuntamente pelo Brasil e pelo Reino…
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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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World Bank launches loan program for women entrepreneurs
Participants of the ”Launch Event Women’s Entrepreneur Finance Initiative’, among them the daughter of the US President Ivanka Trump (front) and (second row L-R) World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim (Front L), Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May, Australia’s Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, US President Donald Trump, German Chancellor Angela…
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Em parceria com Reino Unido, Brasil terá centro de inovação em construção civil
Cooperação para criação do Parque de Inovação e Sustentabilidade do Ambiente Construído foi discutida pelo secretário Elton Zacharias com diretor do grupo britânico BRE. Parque já recebeu R$ 8 milhões em investimentos da Finep para a fase inicial. Por Ascom do MCTIC A parceria entre Brasil e Reino Unido para construção do Parque de…
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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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Mega ataque cibernético pelo mundo aterroriza governos
São Paulo — Alguns países europeus foram alvo de um grande ataque hackernesta sexta-feira (12). O governo espanhol anunciou nesta sexta-feira em um comunicado que várias empresas do país, entre elas a gigante das telecomunicações Telefónica, foram vítimas de um ciberataque. “O ciberataque não compromete a segurança dos dados nem se trata de um vazamento de dados”, afirmou…
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Why climate innovation needs women
The highlight of this week has been International Women’s Day, which celebrates the achievements of women and aims for a more gender inclusive world. It’s a timely moment to reflect – not just on why climate innovation is important to women, but why women are so important to climate innovation. One of the oft-cited arguments in…
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How can Brexit affect innovation ?
Britain has for centuries been a world centre for innovation. This has helped support our economy. Brexit provides us with a clear opportunity to ensure this continues. Post-Brexit, we can introduce differentiated business legislation that will support investments and innovations to help the country thrive. Historically, English property law has been the cornerstone of this,…
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Meritocracy vs mediocrity? Bureaucracy is the factor that kills productivity.
“You’ll meet them all again on their long journey to the middle.” That’s the late, great Philip Seymour Hoffman reading Lester Bangs in Cameron Crowe’s thinly veiled autobiographical film Almost Famous. Bangs is contextualizing the struggles of the film’s protagonist, William — his would-be protégé and Crowe’s stand-in. William is a precocious adolescent promoted to…
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