Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund Ian Anderson and myself attended the Innovate UK annual conference where announcements were made on significant funding to encourage industry to work with HEI’s, a key element of this being the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF).…
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Murgitroyd, European patent and trade mark attorneys, have just launched their “Innovator Launchpad Competition”. Applications are now invited from all pre-profit start-ups and not-for-profits based in the UK -deadline is Wed, 15th Nov @1200 GMT and submission is through their…
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Free and open access to publicly-funded research offers significant social and economic benefits. The Government, in line with its overarching commitment to transparency and open data, is committed to ensuring that such research should be freely accessible. Research funders and…
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Carlos Moedas, European Commissioner for Research and Innovation said, in a lecture at the Royal Society of Edinburgh on Monday night, that we should not give up on Europe and we should keep applying. He told the audience that to give…
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As part of the government’s Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund, Innovate UK have just announced funding available for an extra 200 Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTP) this year (17/18). Edinburgh Napier University has an excellent track record of successfully securing KTP awards…
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Its peer-review week 11-15th September! Peer-review is important in research to ensure the quality and integrity of research activity. Peer-review is normally associated with publishing original articles in Journals. It is also an important part of the research funding process…
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Early Career Researcher? – Looking for a small research grant? The Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland is inviting applications for its Research Incentive Grants by the 15th October, 2017. These are grants for up to £10,000. Applicants must…
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Research Fingerprinting is a service to identify tailored research funding opportunities for academics. This is one of the services provided by *Research Professional, an online service offering an extensive database of open research funding opportunities as well as research policy…
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