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Celebrating the Airbus Centre of Excellence

Celebrating the Airbus Centre of Excellence

Posted on 1 December 2022 by Innovation + Impact blog

  A strategic alliance to find solutions to human-focused threats to cyber security has recently been signed in Cardiff. The Airbus Centre of Excellence in Human Centric Cyber Security is […]

Developing Innovation Policy: Reflections from Wales

Developing Innovation Policy: Reflections from Wales

Posted on 28 November 2022 by Innovation + Impact blog

  Both Welsh and Scottish Governments are currently revisiting and refreshing their Innovation Strategies and the Centre for Innovation Policy Research at Cardiff University has been contributing to these activities, […]

A magnet for impact

A magnet for impact

Posted on 1 November 2022 by Innovation + Impact blog

  'Over the past decade, Cardiff University has published several regular snapshots of our financial impact. Our most recent summary, prepared by London Economics, valued Cardiff’s total economic impact on […]

SPARKing engagement

SPARKing engagement

Posted on 28 October 2022 by Innovation + Impact blog

  In six short months, the Social Science Research Park has fulfilled its acronymic destiny, ‘sparking’ major social science events and programmes and supporting partner collaborations. Here its director, Professor […]

A year with SETsquared – Cardiff’s journey so far…

A year with SETsquared – Cardiff’s journey so far…

Posted on 25 October 2022 by Innovation + Impact blog

  Cardiff joined SETsquared a year ago. The global business incubator provides a wide range of highly acclaimed support programmes to help turn ideas into thriving businesses, and brings together […]

Catalyst for Collaboration

Catalyst for Collaboration

Posted on 20 October 2022 by Innovation + Impact blog

How did the world’s first social science research park evolve? In extracts from a piece first published by Breakthrough – the UK Science Park Association magazine – sbarc|spark operations director […]

Graduate grows luxury vegan leather handbag business

Graduate grows luxury vegan leather handbag business

Posted on 6 October 2022 by Innovation + Impact blog

Graduate grows Dozi Imp and launches Ty Hedge  A Cardiff graduate start-up that makes luxury vegan leather handbags from pineapple leaves launches a new platform this month. Former Cardiff Business […]

Scientists welcome move to Translational Research Hub

Scientists welcome move to Translational Research Hub

Posted on 26 September 2022 by Innovation + Impact blog

Cardiff University’s multi-million-pound Translational Research Hub (TRH) opened its doors in July. As researchers and equipment move in, we hear from a selection of pioneering catalysis and compound semiconductor scientists […]

Why ICS is the ideal business partner for CS process development

Why ICS is the ideal business partner for CS process development

Posted on 30 August 2022 by Innovation + Impact blog

The Institute for Compound Semiconductors (ICS) positions Cardiff as the European leader in compound semiconductors. Here, Professor Peter Smowton, ICS Managing Director, highlights how ICS works with CS businesses to […]

sbarc|spark – a ‘superlab’ solving society’s ills

sbarc|spark – a ‘superlab’ solving society’s ills

Posted on 22 August 2022 by Innovation + Impact blog

Special guests from the worlds of social science research-led innovation, politics, the third sector and government joined a recent celebration of sbarc|spark – Cardiff University’s space for co-creating solutions for […]