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Innovation breeds innovation: from violence prevention to the UK What Works Council

Innovation breeds innovation: from violence prevention to the UK What Works Council

Posted on 26 October 2018 by Innovation + Impact blog

Author: Professor Jonathan Shepherd In July 1997 I took the plunge. My research had told me years previously that hospital A&Es are sources of unique data about violence which could […]

Peter Williams Memorial Symposium

Peter Williams Memorial Symposium

Posted on 17 October 2018 by Innovation + Impact blog

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 […]

Case Study – Qioptiq

Case Study – Qioptiq

Posted on 11 October 2018 by Innovation + Impact blog

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 […]

Meet our innovators – Sabrina Cohen-Hatton

Meet our innovators – Sabrina Cohen-Hatton

Posted on 10 October 2018 by Innovation + Impact blog

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 […]

Urban Innovation

Urban Innovation

Posted on 8 October 2018 by Innovation + Impact blog

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 […]

Guest Post – Bula Batiki Update

Guest Post – Bula Batiki Update

Posted on 4 October 2018 by Innovation + Impact blog

Callum Drummond is a Cardiff University graduate and founder of Bula Batiki, raw Fijian coconut oil. Callum, along with co-founder Ellis Williams set up the business after experiencing the struggle […]

The Rise of the Innovation Campus

The Rise of the Innovation Campus

Posted on 13 September 2018 by Professor Kevin Morgan

Popular histories tend to explain innovation in terms of heroic entrepreneurs – like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, James Dyson and the like – who triumph over adversity. Although there is […]

Research, Innovation and Enterprise at Cardiff University

Research, Innovation and Enterprise at Cardiff University

Posted on 13 September 2018 by Professor Kim Graham

Innovation – the development of new solutions to challenging problems – is at the heart of Cardiff University’s research.  Throughout every building, and every lab, our researchers innovate, creating new […]

A message from our Vice-Chancellor, Professor Colin Riordan

A message from our Vice-Chancellor, Professor Colin Riordan

Posted on 13 September 2018 by Colin Riordan

A warm Welsh welcome to our new Home of Innovation blog. History shows innovation thrives when pioneers come together to forge partnerships in the right places. When I became Vice-Chancellor, […]