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Seeing the World in Colour

Seeing the World in Colour: Spectral Edge

22nd December 2014

Spectral Edge, a start up funded by the UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund, has created Eyeteq, a technology that could make dramatic changes for the one in ten of the male population.
Civet Coffee

Civet Coffee Without the Civets

10th December 2014

At up to £60 a cup, kopi luwak is one of the rarest and most expensive kinds of coffee in the world – it is also one with perhaps the oddest source.
centrum norwich research park

Norwich Research Park: Supporting Science Research in East Anglia

25th November 2014

The Norwich Research Park, based in East Anglia, is one of the UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund’s four campus research partners.
Scientist at work

An Introduction To Engineering Biology

31st October 2014

Synthetic biology is a new and exciting cross-disciplinary field that combines engineering approaches and mindsets with chemistry, computing and biological research…
Autumn

Newsletter Autumn 2014

30th October 2014

Engineering Biology Companies Are Coming of Age.
RSF - Kickstart Technology

The UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund: Kickstarting Technology

27th October 2014

Creating a new technology company is an exciting time. It is an opportunity to get a new breakthrough to the market, meeting an unmet health need, improving the cost-effectiveness of manufacturing, or making energy cleaner and greener.
Oliver Sexton

Today’s Academic Projects Are Becoming Tomorrow’s Billion Pound Companies

3rd September 2014

When we talk about the tech revolution that is currently sweeping the industrialised world, most people tend to think about search engines, tablet computers and smartphone apps.
Is Size Everything

Is Size Everything?

2nd September 2014

Having just returned from a technology conference in the US where I mingled with tech investors and private and public companies operating in a variety of tech arenas, I was interested to read the views of Simon Segars, CEO of ARM Holdings, on the subject of why the UK is failing to produce world-beating technology…

Summer

Newsletter Summer 2014

30th August 2014

 Innovation Here, Expanding Overseas
Oliver Sexton

UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund Expands Team To Drive Engineering Biology Investments

6th August 2014

Fund Adds Life Science Commercialisation Expert Oliver Sexton to Investment Team and Renewables Entrepreneur Sean Sutcliffe Joins Advisory Board.
Seeing the World in Colour

Visual Clarity For All Spectral Edge Announces Investment by The UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund

21st July 2014

18 July 2014 – Spectral Edge announces today the completion of a £300K financing round led by the Iceni Seedcorn Fund and the UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund managed by Midven.
Entrepreneurship is Key Catalyst of Economic Recovery

Entrepreneurship is Key Catalyst of Economic Recovery

29th April 2014

Midven’s Chairman Brian Blakemore, a leading financial expert with a career spanning 40 years in the banking and investment industries, shares his perspective on entrepreneurship and risk taking.
Lady working

KEIT: Going Where No Human Or Machine Has Been Before

16th April 2014

Parts of our planet are so hostile they are unreachable. But if we are to understand Earth’s atmosphere it is vital we monitor factors such as gases around industrial chimneys and erupting volcanoes.
Spring

Newsletter Spring 2014

12th April 2014

 The West Midlands – Proud To Be UK’s Hub Of Enterprise
Make It the Midlands

Make It the Midlands: Why the UK’s Centre is Ripe for Startups

7th April 2014

London has been lauded as the centre of the startup universe, but is Birmingham primed to take the lead?
Entrepreneurship Shifting to Centre of England

Entrepreneurship Shifting to Centre of England

17th March 2014

The West Midlands Is Well Used To Being Dubbed “The Centre” Of The Country.
a new generation of entrepreneurs

Thank You, Dragon’s Den

18th February 2014

Dragons’ Den’s panel of would-be investors may have adopted a cruel and opportunistic tone to boost TV ratings, but drama aside, one can’t deny that the show has cultivated a new generation of entrepreneurs…
Ian-Taylor

Former Science Minister Appointed UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund Advisory Chair

3rd February 2014

Next stage for ‘risk-taking’ public sector, early-stage technology investment fund.
Petri dish

New Funds To Drive Development Of Best-in-Class Fully Human VH antibody Fragment Therapeutics

3rd January 2014

VH domains are the smallest, most robust antibody fragments and as such have advantages for tissue and tumour penetration…
Earth, from space

Third World Magic ?

15th November 2013

I think I’ve reached the age that I can now begin a blog by saying ‘when I was a lad’…. Not so long ago the third world was widely viewed as an immensely impoverished place.
Synthetic Biology

Midven To Manage Engineering Biology Enterprise Fund

6th November 2013

Entrepreneurial scientists in the engineering biology space can benefit from a new £10M investment fund that opens for business today.
Meeting

Engineering Biology Enterprise Boost As New Fund Opens For Business

6th November 2013

Entrepreneurial scientists in the engineering biology space can benefit from a new £10M investment fund that opens for business today.
Seedlings

Contego Secures £900k Of Growth Funding

6th November 2013

Contego Fraud Solutions, the rapidly growing Oxfordshire-based risk management software company, has announced that they have raised £900k in their latest investment round.
johannes plenio

Is the UK Open to Innovation?

20th September 2013

It’s a question we’ve been pondering due to the fact that so many small innovative companies in the UK struggle to gain acceptance of their products.
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