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Bags of Airline Innovation

Bags of Airline Innovation

Posted on 10 September 2020 by Innovation + Impact blog

It’s the bane of the air traveller’s life: standing by the carousel, waiting in vain for a suitcase to arrive. Innovators at Siemens Logistics and Cardiff University have developed solutions avoiding unexpected system downtime.  Here, the outline of the research project.   “The project began in […]

Business booms for graduate’s tech tour start-up

Business booms for graduate’s tech tour start-up

Posted on 26 August 2020 by Innovation + Impact blog

Cardiff University Alumni start-up Virtus Tech – a virtual reality company for the property and retail sector – has come on leaps and bounds since the Home of Innovation blog […]

Success for Language Mentoring Project

Success for Language Mentoring Project

Posted on 4 August 2020 by Innovation + Impact blog

The MFL Student Mentoring Project began in 2015, funded by Welsh Government. It was conceived as a response to the steep decline in the number of young people opting to […]

The road from evaluation to public service reform

The road from evaluation to public service reform

Posted on 22 July 2020 by Innovation + Impact blog

In 2014, in a report for the UK Cabinet Office, Professor Jonathan Shepherd introduced the concept of the evidence ecosystem. For the first time this integrated the processes of evidence […]

Britishvolt boss backs cleaner future

Britishvolt boss backs cleaner future

Posted on 7 July 2020 by Innovation + Impact blog

Cardiff Business School graduate Orral Nadjari (MBA, 2008) wants to build the UK’s first and biggest green battery ‘gigaplant’ in the Vale of Glamorgan. Here, the CEO and Founder of Britishvolt tells the Home of Innovation blog why he […]

Celebrating sbarc | spark – investing in innovation

Celebrating sbarc | spark – investing in innovation

Posted on 6 July 2020 by Innovation + Impact blog

A future centre for start-ups, spinouts, student businesses and social enterprises has reached its highest construction point. sbarc | spark will help enterprising people connect, collaborate and create.  Here, Cardiff University’s Dr […]

The post-pandemic world must be fairer and more sustainable

The post-pandemic world must be fairer and more sustainable

Posted on 3 July 2020 by Innovation + Impact blog

COVID-19 has triggered hopes and fears for the post-pandemic world. Hopes that a new world is possible; fears that the old world will re-assert itself, albeit with more debt, higher […]

Collaboration helps social scientists launch ideas

Collaboration helps social scientists launch ideas

Posted on 2 July 2020 by Innovation + Impact blog

A project which helps academics launch social enterprise start-ups or businesses is celebrating SUCCESS. Cardiff is one of 10 universities delivering the programme - a first-of-its-kind opportunity to help social […]