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Campus buildings, Partnerships, People

Peter Williams Memorial Symposium

Posted on 17 October 2018 by Nishtha Agarwal

We are all very excited to hear the news that ground has been broken for the new building for Cardiff Catalysis Institute (CCI). Many of the team are involved in final design questions for the labs, offices and the lecture theatre. But while we wait for the new facilities to arrive CCI activities continue. This
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Partnerships, People

Case Study – Qioptiq

Posted on 11 October 2018 by Laura Kendrick

Cardiff University expertise helped the North Wales company Qioptiq win an £82m defence contract, creating and safeguarding jobs. Experts from Cardiff Business School spent two years developing a toolset to improve Denbighshire-based Qioptiq’s inventory forecasting operations. The collaboration and knowhow helped the company secure a six-year deal with the Ministry of Defence (MOD) to service night visions equipment. And it
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Partnerships, People

Meet our innovators – Sabrina Cohen-Hatton

Posted on 10 October 2018 by Laura Kendrick

I’ve always been interested in what we can do to make firefighters safer. My husband is also in the fire brigade. There was an incident one day where someone on his fire engine had been badly burned. Going to that fire was probably the longest four minutes and thirty-four seconds of my life. It wasn’t
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Campus buildings, Partnerships, People

Urban Innovation

Posted on 8 October 2018 by Laura Kendrick

Professors Rick Delbridge and Kevin Morgan visited Canada to explore the changing role of universities and cities in urban innovation networks. The cities of Ottawa and Toronto are both trying to develop ’urban innovation platforms’, which involves a variety of organisations working together to create a local ‘innovation ecosystem’. An innovation ecosystem describes the large
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