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SETsquared & Cardiff to grow success

SETsquared & Cardiff to grow success

Posted on 27 September 2021 by Innovation + Impact blog

Cardiff University has joined SETsquared – the world’s number one university business incubator. The collaboration will help turn research, spin-outs and start-ups into thriving businesses. Here, Simon Bond, Innovation Direction at SETsquared and Dr David Bembo, Cardiff’s Director of Research & Innovation Services, discuss the partnership […]

A taste of milk&sugar

A taste of milk&sugar

Posted on 9 September 2021 by Innovation + Impact blog

Independent café group, milk&sugar, will provide hospitality in Cardiff’s landmark sbarc | spark building, fuelling great ideas. Here, the group’s owner, Tim Corrigan, explains why he’s delighted to be opening the company’s sixth Cardiff outlet […]

Growing social innovation

Growing social innovation

Posted on 2 August 2021 by Innovation + Impact blog

A three-way partnership to grow mint commercially on a not-for-profit basis has brought benefits to rural Uganda. The Community Enterprise Model for Plant Oil Production (CEMPOP) was forged five years […]

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 Innovation + Impact blog

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 Innovation + Impact blog

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 […]

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 Innovation + Impact blog

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 […]

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 Innovation + Impact blog

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 […]

A post-pandemic Home of Innovation

A post-pandemic Home of Innovation

Posted on 4 May 2021 by Innovation + Impact blog

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 Innovation + Impact blog

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 Innovation + Impact blog

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 […]