Bath Business News has teamed up with the region’s biggest business exhibition, Business Showcase South West, as it prepares to return for a second year. Business Showcase South West 2015 (BSSW 2015) will build on the success of the inaugural event earlier this year which attracted nearly 2,000 attendees, exhibitors and big-name speakers including...
IT innovator SciSys has secured a €2m (£1.59m) order to develop software for the next Mars rover as part of the European Space Agency’s 2018 mission to the red planet. The Chippenham-based firm, which has its roots in the space industry, will work on the vehicle visual localisation flight software (VISLOC) responsible for self-localising...
Two of Bath’s most innovative businesses are to be showcased in a national innovation festival that will put the Bath and Bristol region in the spotlight as one of the UK’s leading hi-tech centres. Cloud pioneer Zynstra and Genius Digital, which collects and analyses data for the TV industry, are among 14 business and...
Bath-based IT services company IPL has been appointed to help develop a new system that makes it easier for small firms to bid for Government contracts. The new version of Contracts Finder will support commercial reforms introduced under the Government’s flagship programme aiming to help small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The Government wants to...
By Adam Powell, director of skills, West of England LEP What will your business look like three years from now? Do your existing staff have the right mix of skills to help your business flourish? Do you have the right recruitment and workforce development strategy in place? If you find any of these questions...
Inventor Sir James Dyson has unveiled his firm’s latest innovative appliance aimed at revolutionising household chores – a powerful robot vacuum cleaner that works even when its owner isn’t home. Launched to great fanfare in Tokyo yesterday by Bath-based Sir James, and using technology developed at Dyson’s world-beating Malmesbury research and development centre, the...
Bath-based tech start up Cloudfind, which aims to revolutionise the way businesses use the cloud, has received a further £600,000 investment to fund further growth. The firm plans to take information management into what it calls the ‘digital jetstream’ by cutting out wasted hours trying to find and organise huge amounts of data. The...
An innovative healthcare IT system developed in Bath that helps paramedics deliver better care to patients has been shortlisted as a finalist in two leading industry awards. The Electronic Referral Information Sharing System (ERISS) was commissioned by the North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust (NWAS) and built in collaboration with IPL, the Bath-based IT...
West firms will be able to learn about commercial opportunities in one of the world’s fastest-growing economies when the British Ambassador to South Korea visits the region next week. Scott Wightman will be joined by CEO of the British Chamber of Commerce in Korea, David Lee, at the free event staged by UK Trade...
The South West office of BGF, the business growth fund set up to help the UK’s growing smaller and medium-sized firms, has appointed Sarah Ledwidge as an investment manager. Sarah, pictured, will be responsible for identifying investable businesses in Wiltshire, Hampshire and the Thames Valley and working with them to achieve their growth plans....
