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With successful collaboration increasingly identified as a major driver of business performance, Science City York and Connect Yorkshire are themselves teaming up in October to promote the value of forging strong strategic alliances
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11-Sep-2008 |
Bioscience York, Creative York, IT & Digital York, Science City York
Just weeks since the formal launch of its new on-line education resource, York-based business curriculART is celebrating accreditation by Curriculum Online. Curriculum Online is central to the Department for Children, Schools and Families’ (formerly DfES) drive to transform school teaching and learning by improving access to multimedia resources for all pupils
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17-Apr-2008 |
Creative York, Science City York
The latest appointment by one of the region’s leading promoters of technology and innovation drives forward the bid to address current skill shortages in business and enterprise
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17-Apr-2008 |
Bioscience York, Community Science, Creative York, IT & Digital York, Science City York
Hot on the heels of last year’s highly acclaimed BA Festival of Science, the amazing world of science and technology is again the focus of attention in the North, as we welcome the return of the York Festival of Science and Technology.
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11-Jan-2008 |
Bioscience York, Community Science, Creative York, IT & Digital York, Science City York
Museum visitors are being given the chance to help unlock the secrets of ancient Egypt in an innovative exhibition in Harrogate
LOCATION, location, location used to be everything in business until the world wide web came along, say the modernists. That''s only partly true - and the success of a design company which has relocated from London to York proves the point.
A MODERN home for one of the richest historical archive collections in Europe is to be established in York thanks to a massive £4.4 million lottery award.
A rapidly-growing design and construction company which supplies specialist modular laboratory clean rooms for the pharmaceutical industry is settling into a new UK headquarters in York. Pharmaspace Ltd, which began as a division of pharmaceutical production equipment company Extract Technology Ltd in Huddersfield - part of Carlisle Life Science Europe - has taken offices at Chestnut Court Business Centre in Lawrence Street, York.
A European scientific project worth one billion pounds, which would be a world-leader in its field, could be developed in Yorkshire, providing a huge economic boost to the region. Yorkshire Forward is joining three of the regions leading universities Leeds, York and Sheffield (the White Rose Consortium) in a bid to host the worlds largest neutron scattering research facility.
York based e-tailer shoeshop.com has won the award for best business to customer website in the Yorkshire InternetAwards 2002, for its site selling high quality designer shoesdirect to the public.
A NEW software firm based in the South has invested £500,000 to set up and operate its research and development office in York, it was announced today. Pierbridge Ltd, of Chobham, Surrey, offers relatively inexpensive solutions to small or medium-sized ventures which need to fuse customer data from different sources such as phone, e-mail or even palmtop communicators into a single view on screen.
Scientists today are facing massive increases in the amount of data available to use. And they urgently need sophisticated systems which can process, analyse and store this information.
Pioneering biotech entrepreneur Professor Sir Chris Evans will launch York's Bioincubator on Wednesday 10 October. The Bioincubator will offer dedicated laboratory facilities for emerging biotechnology businesses. Based on York Science Park on the University of York campus, the new Bioincubator is an exceptional opportunity for bioscience businesses to locate at the heart of the University of York''s world-class scientific and technological expertise.
COMPANIES around the world are set to benefit from the expertise of York University scientists under a new £1 million "brains for business" fund launched by the Government today. The scheme is aimed at encouraging academics to help firms tackle technical and research problems and to forge stronger links between higher education and industry. It will see university experts receiving fellowships, worth up to £25,000 a year for four years, in return for helping companies develop business plans.
A £50 MILLION project generating up to 5,000 jobs could be on its way to York, the Evening Press can reveal today. A consortium of business people and landowners has lodged an outline plan with City of York Council for 450,000 square feet of offices for new and growing science ventures on 26 empty acres south of Monks Cross retail park and the Ryedale Stadium.
The extension to the Innovation Centre on York Science Park opens today (27 April) with seven new tenants already signed up. The building will be opened by Susan Johnson OBE, the Business Development Director of Yorkshire Forward. The building will extend the existing Innovation Centre by 10,635 square feet and provides space for small or start-up businesses. As well as office space, this is the first facility in the region to provide laboratories on a speculative basis. Five of the six laboratories have been taken by Cell Analysis, a spin-off company of the University of York.
A new Medical School for the North of England providing places for around 600 student doctors was announced today (Friday, March 30) by the Department of Health and the Higher Education Funding Council for England. The new School is a joint venture between the University of Hull and the University of York in partnership with the regional NHS, and will be known as the Hull York Medical School. As well as providing training for new doctors, the School will help create a major international centre of health-related research in North and East Yorkshire and South Humber and increase employment in knowledge-based sectors of the regional economy.
An innovative science park could be expanded if proposals for a four-storey lab and office block are accepted. City of York Council will decide next week if the application can get the go-ahead. The facilities would provide a home for another science-based business drawn to the park, in Heslington, which has already attracted a number of companies including Smith & Nephew.
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