Accountancy giant EY is to open a business research innovation technology and engineering (BRiTE) hub in the South West to help boost the region’s fast-growing FinTech sector. The hub aims to ramp up capabilities in financial services design, data analytics and engineering and create practical and tangible solutions to some of the big challenges...
FinTech West, the advisory body for the region’s burgeoning financial technology industry, has appointed two new members to its advisory board in a move to help mobilise more firms in the sector in the South West. The appointments of PwC director Katharine Adlard and NatWest senior relationship manager Louis Spencer, pictured, will enable FinTech West to...
Small firms or freelancers working on projects that use technology in innovative and creative ways are being encouraged to apply for funding of up to £5,000 under a new scheme. Launched by The Studio at Palace Yard Mews, Bath Spa University’s city-centre research and innovation hub, The Studio Innovation Fund aims to support freelancers,...
The University of Bath is partnering with a Norwegian health tech company to improve its ground-breaking sensor technology used by people with diabetes. Lifecare AS, which has just opened a UK head office in Bath, has developed the smallest glucose sensor in the world for continuous monitoring. The size of a grain of rice,...
The University of Bath’s car-of-the-future research centre is driving ahead with a pioneering project that could help put zero-emission hydrogen-powered aircraft into commercial use. The Institute of Advanced Automotive Propulsion Systems (IAAPS) has teamed up with aircraft parts manufacturer GKN Aerospace to develop hydrogen technology aimed at decarbonising the aviation industry. They will work together on GKN Aerospace’s...
A new innovation and enterprise space has opened on the University of Bath’s campus to provide a space for student entrepreneurs, researchers and graduate start-ups to develop and share ideas for products and services. The E-Lab, pictured, which also offers access to support and mentoring, is a significant expansion of the university’s enterprise services,...
Bath Spa University has become one of the first in the UK to benefit from a link-up with US software giant Adobe which will boost its students’ digital capability and better prepare them for the modern workplace. Under the partnership, only the third between Adobe and a British university, Bath Spa students get free...
The globally acclaimed University of Bath-supported business incubator SETsquared has bolstered the UK economy by £15.7bn since its launch 20 years ago, according to an independent report. SETsquared was set up in 2002 by a small group of research-intensive universities in the South of England, including Bath, with a mission is to help turn...
Bath-headquartered digital media group Digitalbox has continued its expansion with the acquisition of a satirical website which says it provides “an antidote to the daily grind”. The Poke was launched in 2002 to deliver what it calls fast-turnaround topical distractions by selecting the funniest content on the web, enabling its users to spend “time well...
Bath financial technology firm Roqqett has been sold to a major national tech-led payment group in a deal worth up to £2.25m just three years after its launch. Roqqett was founded by Glenn Smith, who previously held senior roles with UBS and Barclays in foreign exchange derivatives followed by more than a decade in...
