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Chinese delegates visit Institute for Compound Semiconductors

Chinese delegates visit Institute for Compound Semiconductors

Posted on 5 November 2018 by Heath Jeffries

Cardiff’s Institute for Compound Semiconductors (ICS) has played host to officials from Chongqing Municipal Government in south western China. The party of ten delegates visited the University to get to […]

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 Laura Kendrick

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 Nishtha Agarwal

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 Laura Kendrick

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 Laura Kendrick

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 Laura Kendrick

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 Laura Kendrick

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 […]

Guest Post – HOK: Designing the Translational Research Facility

Guest Post – HOK: Designing the Translational Research Facility

Posted on 28 September 2018 by Laura Kendrick

Great universities are more than centres of learning and research. They are innovation engines that drive the development of new products, processes and services that go beyond business. They embrace […]

Guest Post – Innovative Design

Guest Post – Innovative Design

Posted on 19 September 2018 by Laura Kendrick

Hawkins\Brown is delighted to be working with Cardiff University to deliver Innovation Central. The building will be the world's first social science research park, co-locating leading researchers, practitioners and policy […]

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 […]