Case Studies

Outer Hebrides Tourism Community Interest Company

Outer Hebrides Tourism collaborated with the University of Glasgow as part of the Adopt a Business scheme; a new initiative aimed at boosting the sector’s recovery from COVID-19 by connecting tourism businesses to university academics and students; helping businesses to diversify and adapt to the new environment.

Re-Tek

Interface successfully matched Re-Tek with the University of the West of Scotland, who had expertise in recycling/reclamation of rare earth minerals and in precious metals recovery from electronic waste, to partner in a bid for a €166k tender across four countries in the EU.

W&J Knox Ltd

Abertay University have supported W&J Knox in identifying uses for their waste products to prevent valuable material from going to landfill.

Highland Boundary

Heriot-Watt University’s International Centre for Brewing and Distilling helps craft distillery to develop unique new products.

AAS McCabe

Interface matched AAS McCabe with the University of Strathclyde to develop the company's marketing strategy.

Karen Hamilton

The second Scottish Funding Council Innovation Voucher awarded to a college has been given to fund a collaboration between Designer and Dressmaker, Karen Hamilton and Dundee and Angus College for a project on a pioneering 3D lace printing project.

Renewable Parts Ltd

Interface successfully matched Renewable Parts Ltd to the University of Strathclyde to develop an innovation programme for the repair of wind turbine parts.

Networks4Learning

Networks4Learning Limited is a Social Enterprise based in Glasgow. With the support of Ruth Oliver from Interface and an Innovation Voucher from the Scottish Funding Council, they have successfully collaborated with the University of Glasgow to develop affordable smart greenhouse farming applications for Africa.

Attis Fitness Ltd

Attis Fitness is developing an innovative smart wearable for runners. The product is a compression legging that has smart sensors embedded into the fabric. Interface matched the company with CENSIS to help develop its initial demonstrator, especially the challenge of integration of the sensor data to enhanced performance.

TransK9

After establishing relevant academic expertise, Interface was able to successfully set up a collaboration with the University of the West of Scotland’s Engineering Department in Paisley to crash test TransK9’s latest dog cage.

Welbot

Welbot initially collaborated with the University of Strathclyde to understand how they could extract knowledge and insights from data and machine learning, especially around autonomous, self-teaching systems that can analyse data and provide insights to human behaviour. They then went on to work with both the University of Edinburgh and the University of Aberdeen.

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