22 Apr, 2024 Further support for Space Tech start-ups from the UK Space Agency By Phil Merchant The UK Space Agency is launching a new Space Portfolio of £8 million to provide much-needed access to funds for early-stage companies...
18 Apr, 2024 SPACEtalks - investors looking to infinity and beyond By Thomas Storey I recently attended the downstream day of the SPACEtalks conference hosted by the European Space Agency at the Harwell Science and...
27 Mar, 2024 Japan Railway East experts working with the Birmingham Centre for Railway Research and Education (BCRRE) By Robert Carpmael It is always good to see cooperation between academia and industry and we will be watching with interest to see what this new...
15 Feb, 2024 New Fuel? Ammonia comes into focus.. By Robert Carpmael My colleague, Robbie Gauld, identified in his insight from 15th November that Magnolia Tovar (Global Director of Zero-Carbon Fuels, Clean...
14 Feb, 2024 M&C in the news: Start-ups must double down on IP in 2024 to ensure long term success By M&C Newsroom In 2024, the start-up landscape is evolving at lightning speed, and safeguarding your intellectual property (IP) is more critical than...
12 Feb, 2024 Fashion: Dyeing for a change By Mairi Rudkin New York, New York - I’ve found myself here during fashion week in a year where I am glad to see that sustainability has been put front...
21 Jan, 2024 Malaysia launches IP marketplace By Chris Hemingway Inventors often face various challenges when it comes to commercializing their inventions, and one of the common issues is marketing -...
03 Jan, 2024 Trade marks and place names By David Kemp Cambridge University is quite within its rights to protect the name CAMBRIDGE and its reputation but how far the monopoly should go can...
18 Dec, 2023 Magnet recycling begins in Birmingham By Giles Pinnington In an important step on the UK's path to a circular economy, commercial production of recycled rare earth magnets has begun at...
11 Dec, 2023 Turning seaweed into sofas (and how patent searching can help research) By Mairi Rudkin This BBC article presents yet another example of a biological material that can be used as a sustainable substitute for fossil...
08 Dec, 2023 Turquoise hydrogen (and CNTs) - What is it? By Kirsteen Gordon I went to a talk this week by Professor Boies of the Department of Engineering, who was presenting on his group's research on Turquoise...
06 Dec, 2023 Project Funding from the European Space Agency - ESA - for any sector! By Robert Carpmael I attended a fascinating event on Monday 4th December in which The Rail Innovation Group , Network Rail, the Department for Transport and...