Northern Gritstone has found backing for its first £100m with another £300m in discussion, enabling it to back two dozen northern university spinouts a year to support commercialisation of IP at northern universities by Tim Adler at Growth Business. Read more.
Northern Gritstone, a new investment company founded by the Universities of Leeds, Manchester and Sheffield (the “Founding Universities”) and established to facilitate the commercialisation of university science and technology related Intellectual Property (“IP”) in the north of England, today announces Read more…
The rankings are the only global performance tables that assess universities against the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Read more.
FourJaw Manufacturing Analytics provides continuous monitoring for CNC machines. The startup’s device-agnostic, low-cost, the plug-and-play platform allows SME manufacturers to automate machine data collection, whereas traditional machine monitoring systems are expensive and complex to install. Read more
The University of Sheffield and energy storage and clean fuel company ITM Power have launched a pioneering collaboration to advance the hydrogen sector, including an agreement for a new ITM Gigafactory. Read more.
The chairman of Northern Gritstone, Lord O’Neill, commenting in the Telegraph on the challenge of creating investment opportunities which will have a social impact in the north of England. Read more.
Our chairman of Northern Gritstone, Jim O’Neill, writes how the inequalities in the UK economy create great investment opportunities which will have wider impact. Earlier this month, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson gave a speech in Coventry about what seems to have become Read more…
Scientists at the University of Leeds have developed an approach that could help in the design of a new generation of synthetic biomaterials made from proteins. The biomaterials could eventually have applications in joint repair or wound healing as well Read more…
A device that helps desperately sick patients breathe and costs around £150 to manufacture could revolutionise It has been designed to provide therapeutic oxygen support to patients severely ill with Covid-19, pneumonia or other forms of respiratory distress – and was developed Read more…
The North West has overtaken the South East to be named one of the UK’s top three locations for attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) projects. According to EY’s latest UK Attractiveness Survey, the region is now third behind Greater London Read more…