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£100 million fund to boost university and private collaboration opens for bids (14/05/2012)

A new £100m investment fund to support research partnerships between universities, businesses, charities and philanthropic donors has opened for bids. Universities will be able to bid for between £10m and £35m per project and...

Government grants additional £6m for UK space technology (11/04/2012)

As part of the National Space Technology Programme, the government is to grant nearly £6m to co-fund major new British research that will develop commercial products and services using space technology and data from space-based...

Fund managers sought for non-domestic energy efficiency drive (28/03/2012)

The UK Green Investments (UKGI) team from the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills is seeking expressions of interest from experienced fund managers to run government managed accounts of up to £100m to invest in the...

Government announces support for 19,000 new degree-level apprenticeships (01/12/2011)

Business secretary Vince Cable has announced government funding in support of thousands of apprenticeships up to degree equivalent Some £18.7m from the Higher Apprenticeship Fund will support the development of 19,000 new Higher Apprenticeships in...

UK research base most productive in the world (20/10/2011)

The UK is a world-leader in science and research, according to a new report from Universities and Science Minister David Willetts. The ‘International Comparative Performance of the UK Research Base 2011’ report was compiled by Elsevier and published...

Skills minister unveils new skills training programme for the welding sector (12/10/2011)

Skills minister, John Hayes and Stephen McPartland MP, joined North Hertfordshire College and specialist welding products supplier, Weldability Sif, last week to unveil a new skills training programme for the welding sector. The Weldability Sif...

Government launches 'Peer to Patent' online patent application tool (01/06/2011)

A new tool designed to help improve the patent application process has been launched by the Minister for Intellectual Property, Baroness Wilcox. 'Peer to Patent' is a review website which allows experts from the scientific and technology community...

Government invests £200m in technology centres (26/10/2010)

More than GBP200m will be invested by the government in a network of Technology and Innovation Centres to drive growth in the UK high-tech sectors. The centres, which were announced by prime minister David Cameron in a speech to the CBI conference,...

US congress ratifies US-UK Defence Trade Cooperation Treaty (06/10/2010)

The US Congress has ratified the US UK Defence Trade Cooperation Treaty. This has no immediate impact on controls of exports from the UK to the US, so if you needed an export licence before, you still need one now. The...

Vince Cable pledges to tackle red tape issues for British business (09/08/2010)

Business secretary, Vince Cable (pictured) has announced a package of measures to support the drive to tackle unnecessary government interference and red tape. Under the terms of a new One-in, One-out system (beginning...

'Big Bang' Fair winners announced (15/03/2010)

After the culmination of many months of trialling and testing ideas and inventions, ten overall prize-winners were drawn across a range of different categories and age groups this evening (Friday, 12 March), as finalists in...