Interface News

Our news section highlights some recent partnerships involving the academic/company community and other relevant news stories.


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01/9/2010 Knowledge Exchange (Insider Special Report) Interface in conjunction with Business Insider lauches special report on KE in Scotland.
01/9/2010 Stimulating and supporting innovation activity for growth potential businesses The Innovation Support Service is a key part of Scottish Enterprise’s remit to stimulate and support more innovation activity and provide support for growth potential businesses in our key sectors. Therefore, ISS is specifically targeted at non-account ma
24/8/2010 Innovation is the name of the game as 40 businesses are spun out (The Scotsman) FORTY companies were created by staff and students at Edinburgh University last year, a record for a Scottish institution, with some of the latest heralded as having "global significance".
22/8/2010 Brain Imaging Survey (SINAPSE) SINAPSE are seeking people's opinions and concerns about these issues in a short survey.
18/8/2010 Nexxus Life Science Awards The Nexxus Life Science Awards are open to individuals, institutions and companies involved in life science in Scotland.
28/7/2010 Academia Helping Firms Invest for the Future (Fresh Business Thinking.com) Article discussed how investing now by tapping into the skills and expertise in Scotlands universities could help more companies survive the current financial climate.
14/7/2010 Interfacing business with academia (Caledonian Mercury) David Calder writes about how Interface is helping break down the barriers between universities and businesses.
05/7/2010 University challenge for Scottish business (Business Network Magazine) Schemes aim to break down barriers to businesses looking for high-technology solutions.
02/7/2010 BBSRC Research Council has an updated Policy on Knowledge Exchange and Commercialisation BBSRC acknowledges that knowledge exchange is a much broader activity than commercialisation or translation. This means that a wide range of knowledge exchange and commercial activities is required to deliver benefit and impact.
25/6/2010 Scottish Funding Council’s Innovation Voucher Scheme Exceeds Expectations The demand for the Scottish Funding Council’s Innovation Voucher Scheme, which aids first links between Scottish universities and small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs), is exceeding expectations after successfully matching more than 80 businesses to un
12/6/2010 Aberdeen professor receives OBE Professor Dominic Houlihan, Vice-Principal for Research and Commercialisation at the University of Aberdeen, has been awarded an OBE in The Queen's Birthday Honours.
10/6/2010 New business star (Daily Express) Trace Ward of About Tack seeks equine expertise to develop new saddle technology.
09/6/2010 Companies in Hillington get a helping hand (Paisley Daily Express) Companies across Renfrewshire will be given a helping hand to connect with boffins in a bid to boost business.
03/6/2010 SUPA industry brochure SUPA (Scottish Universities Physics Alliance) produced this brochure to demonstrate SUPA interaction with businesses.
02/6/2010 Toshiba Medical Visualisation Systems Europe Visit SINAPSE talk about the Ministeral visit to Toshiba Medical Visualisation Systems Europe (TMVSE)
01/6/2010 Propeller Multimedia Ltd Secures Collaborative PhD Programme Distributor of speech and language therapy software works with Interface to secure a collaborative PhD programme that will commence in October 2010.
27/5/2010 Innovation Vouchers: a ticket to business success (Young Company Finance) A new scheme offers to help small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) drive innovations through collaboration with Scotland’s universities.
24/5/2010 Edinburgh Napier University launches £12m scheme to boost businesses (The Scotsman) EDINBURGH Napier University has launched a £12 million plan to support more than 3,000 businesses.
12/5/2010 Promotion for football teams that tackle old divisions (The Scotsman) The Hibernian Community Foundation works with Queen Margaret University to find out just how much the sport can promote learning and social inclusion, improve health and enhance the opportunities available to local people in the long term.
10/5/2010 Jim rejects life in a wheelchair and becomes Bowen therapist (The Scottish Farmer) Living with back pain, whether temporarily or with a chronic condition has the ability to change your entire life, and not for the better.
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