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Oxford Catalysts Wins Commercialisation Award

Oxford Catalysts Group PLC, the leading technology innovator for clean synthetic fuels, is pleased to announce that it has won the award for Excellence in the Field of Environmental Technology Commercialisation at the CleanEquity Monaco 2010 Awards.

Posted: 11 March 2010
Oxford Catalysts, Business

Call for experts in new TV programme for budding inventors

Shine TV is looking for designers or inventors who have successfully brought a product to market to act as an adjudicator.

Posted: 9 March 2010
Expert; Invention

One Million Employees Get Skills Boost With Train To Gain

The number of people gaining a qualification through the Train to Gain programme has hit the one million mark, the Government announced today.

Posted: 4 March 2010
Training; Government Initiative

Isis Licenses Augmented Reality Software

Three-dimensional animated graphics can be merged into live video in real time to create a fusion of real and computer-generated visuals by software created at the University of Oxford’s Department of Engineering Science.

Posted: 3 March 2010
Research, Commercial Application; Isis Innovation

Two Job Vacancies with Oxford Brookes Univiersity

We felt these vacancies may be of interest to people involved with the Oxfordshire business community:…

Posted: 3 March 2010
Job, Vacancy, Oxford, University

SQW Group set to expand Innovation Centres business following Acquisition

SQW Group today announced that through its subsidiary, Oxford Innovation, a leading operator of innovation centres, it has completed the purchase of the business development operation of Fasset, a specialist operator of regional technology parks.

Posted: 2 March 2010
Innovation Centre, UK

Excellent Research Vital to Maintain UK’s Global Scientific Standing

Redesigned PhD and masters programmes to attract and nurture the best researchers are at the centre of proposals to maintain Britain’s leading position in scientific research published by the Council of Science and Technology today.

Posted: 1 March 2010
Research; Government; Global

Increase in UK R&D Spend Revealed as R&D Scoreboard Published

The top one thousand UK companies invested more than £26bn on developing new products, services and improving productivity in 2008 according to the latest R&D scoreboard published today.

Posted: 1 March 2010
UK Companies; R&D Spend

Import Duty Free and Save Cash

Companies that are unable to source the materials they need to manufacture their products from within the EU could be eligible to import those materials duty-free by applying to the EU Duty Suspensions & Tariff Quotas Scheme.

Posted: 26 February 2010
Import, Duty Free, UK Businesses

UK Innovation Continues Positive Trend

Innovation accounted for two thirds of average labour productivity growth in the UK between 2000 and 2007 according to the 2009 Annual Innovation report, published today.

Posted: 22 February 2010
Innovation Report; UK Findings

£200m Boost for Future Technology Sectors

£200m from the UK Innovation Investment Fund (UKIIF) will be used to benefit life sciences, digital and advanced manufacturing businesses.

Posted: 22 February 2010
Funding; UK; Future Technologies

Clean fuels: FT catalyst and microchannel reactor combination makes the top 20

A highly active Fischer-Tropsch (FT) catalyst combined with an FT microchannel reactor has earned the Oxford Catalysts Group a place on the Clean and Cool Mission to Silicon Valley, in California. The Oxford Catalyst Group is one of just 20 UK clean technology companies – out of a field of 150 applicants – chosen to take part in the trade mission.

Posted: 19 February 2010
Clean Fuels, Oxford

Local Organisations Urged to Offer Placements

The Nuffield Science Bursary Scheme is an excellent national initiative set up by the Nuffield Foundation that places Year 12 science students into scientific organisations for 4-6 weeks in their summer holidays to carry out a research project.

Posted: 18 February 2010
Research Organisations; Placements; School Students

Free business support in your area

All companies based within Oxford Innovation’s Innovation Centres in Oxfordshire are eligible for a range of business support services.

Posted: 17 February 2010
Free advice; Innovation Centres; Oxfordshire

Isis technology in cameras of the future

Scientists from the University of Oxford have developed a revolutionary way of capturing a high-resolution still image alongside very high-speed video – a new technology that is attractive for science, industry and consumer sectors alike.

Posted: 15 February 2010
Research; Technology Transfer; Industry