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Cancer Research UK partners with Venture Builder Incubator to drive innovation
Cancer Research UK has partnered with a University of Edinburgh business-support programme to help build startup companies focused on tackling cancer. The charity will fund up to 10 participants in the second round of the Data-Driven...
AI’s future stars join Edinburgh accelerator
A body-sizing app to improve online shopping, 3D printed tumours to test cancer drugs, and a mental health early warning monitor are among the 12 innovations selected for the next University of Edinburgh AI Accelerator. Twelve teams of artificial...
Sustainable finance: putting UK consumers at the heart of the government’s net zero target
There has never been a stronger case for taking meaningful action to address climate change than the one delivered by the IPCC in August, we are running out of time, on this we all appear to agree. Therefore, it is time to trust the consumer with...
Edinburgh’s pitch-perfect young entrepreneurs
A robotic waste-sorter, a digital chemistry lab for school children and a mechanised planter to restore seagrass beds on the ocean floor have been named the stand-out business ideas following the University of Edinburgh’s 12-week Startup Summer...
Wobble Genomics launches with £1.2m investment to unlock RNA promise
A new company spun out from the University of Edinburgh could help boost the diagnosis and treatment of a wide range of diseases by unlocking new potential from RNA sequencing. Wobble Genomics has been launched with Edinburgh Innovations’ support...
Future Proof: Edinburgh Futures Institute
By Professor Chris Speed, Chair in Design Informatics, University of Edinburgh Ever since the publication of the review of Scotland’s technology ecosystem by Mark Logan, founder of Skyscanner, a year ago, the term ‘innovation ecosystem’ has become...
Collaboration aims to speed the journey to circular economy
Edinburgh Innovations is developing a tool to help new startups to apply circular-economy thinking to their business models as part of a multi-partner project that has won funding of €1.2 million from the European Institute of Innovation and...
The Second Pitch
Thanks to television shows such as Dragons Den and Shark Tank, when we think of a ‘business pitch’ we simultaneously think of terrifying humiliation and success beyond our wildest dreams. Neil Pollock, Professor of Innovation and Social...
Dr Adam Stokes wins inaugural DDE Academic Entrepreneurship Award
Dr Adam Stokes of the School of Engineering has won the University’s first DDE Academic Entrepreneurship Award, presented to a member of academic staff who has shown outstanding leadership in driving entrepreneurship among students and fellow...
Cancer Research UK partners with Venture Builder Incubator to drive innovation
Cancer Research UK has partnered with a University of Edinburgh business-support...
AI’s future stars join Edinburgh accelerator
A body-sizing app to improve online shopping, 3D printed tumours to test cancer drugs,...
Sustainable finance: putting UK consumers at the heart of the government’s net zero target
There has never been a stronger case for taking meaningful action to address climate...
Edinburgh’s pitch-perfect young entrepreneurs
A robotic waste-sorter, a digital chemistry lab for school children and a mechanised...
Wobble Genomics launches with £1.2m investment to unlock RNA promise
A new company spun out from the University of Edinburgh could help boost the diagnosis...
Future Proof: Edinburgh Futures Institute
By Professor Chris Speed, Chair in Design Informatics, University of Edinburgh Ever...