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Peter Rawlinson

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How Cardiff University’s sbarc | spark building will nurture post-pandemic recovery

How Cardiff University’s sbarc | spark building will nurture post-pandemic recovery

Posted on 28 June 2021 by Peter Rawlinson

Cardiff University's new sbarc building opens this coming winter. It aims to grow collaborations, businesses, spin-outs, start-ups, and social enterprises, bringing together essential ingredients to boost enterprise in Cardiff and the […]

Exciting time for the innovation agenda in Wales

Exciting time for the innovation agenda in Wales

Posted on 21 June 2021 by Peter Rawlinson

It is an exciting time for the innovation agenda in Wales. The Centre for Innovation Policy Research at Cardiff University has recently undertaken research alongside Welsh Government considering the views […]

RemakerSpace reshapes the future 

RemakerSpace reshapes the future 

Posted on 14 June 2021 by Peter Rawlinson

Sustainability, green jobs, resilient growth: words that will increasingly fill our airwaves as the UK prepares for the UN Climate Change Conference this autumn. How can Wales, ranked third in the world for recycling, […]

Innovation culture at the heart of new development designed to strengthen social and economic wellbeing in Wales.

Innovation culture at the heart of new development designed to strengthen social and economic wellbeing in Wales.

Posted on 7 June 2021 by Peter Rawlinson

Professor Karen Holford, Deputy Vice Chancellor at Cardiff University, spoke to Business News Wales about the vision for Cardiff Innovations@sbarc. Cardiff University has created a thriving innovation culture that excels […]

Milestone for Big Ideas Wales

Milestone for Big Ideas Wales

Posted on 31 May 2021 by Peter Rawlinson

In just five years, over 300,000 young people across Wales have been inspired to follow entrepreneurial ambitions through Welsh Government’s Big Ideas Wales service. And rather than dent aspirations, the Covid-19 pandemic has […]

COVID-19 sheds new light on violence and how to prevent it.

COVID-19 sheds new light on violence and how to prevent it.

Posted on 21 May 2021 by Peter Rawlinson

In his PhD studies in the 1980s Jonathan Shepherd matched police data with hospital emergency department (ED) records of people injured in violence. Startlingly, three quarters of violent offences which […]

SIOE 2021

SIOE 2021

Posted on 10 May 2021 by Peter Rawlinson

Professor Peter Smowton, It was with great pleasure that we welcomed friends old and new to the 34th Semiconductor and Integrated OptoElectronics (SIOE) Conference, from 30th March to 1st April 2021. Following the unfortunate cancellation of SIOE […]

A post-pandemic Home of Innovation

A post-pandemic Home of Innovation

Posted on 4 May 2021 by Peter Rawlinson

The doors swing open this autumn on the biggest innovation facility of its kind in Wales. Cardiff Innovation Campus (CIC) has reshaped a disused railway yard into a Home of Innovation, where thinkers will meet collaborators and […]

Driving third sector careers through KTPs

Driving third sector careers through KTPs

Posted on 26 April 2021 by Peter Rawlinson

A Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) can bring benefits to any organisation – not just businesses, but to public and third sector enterprises. Charities are no exception. Cardiff University graduate Coralie […]

AI can outsmart cyber attacks  

AI can outsmart cyber attacks  

Posted on 19 April 2021 by Peter Rawlinson

Spotting early signs of cyber attacks – and automatically defending against them – will form the basis of a new funded research and innovation programme between Airbus and Cardiff University. The two organisations have worked on shared […]