Innovation hub SETsquared’s ranking as the top university business incubator in Europe and second best in the world has been welcomed by Bath & North East Somerset Council leader Paul Crossley. As reported on Bath Business News last week, the centre achieved international recognition in the University Business Incubator (UBI) Index, which benchmarks incubators...
The West of England is to be home to one of the UK’s first four University Enterprise Zones to help the next generation of hi-tech companies set up and expand. Backed by the University of Bath, the zone is expected to create more than 500 jobs and generate £50m for the local economy. From...
The Bath and Bristol region has this week been championed as a world-leading centre for innovation in hi-tech, creative and digital media in a major new report. The Centre for Cities/McKinsey & Company survey, which analysed industry clusters across the globe, pinpoints the West of England’s diverse combination of industries and strong networks as...
SETsquared, the centre for innovative part run by the University of Bath, has been named as the top university business incubator in Europe and second best in the world. In a ranking published this week by the University Business Incubator (UBI) Index, SETsquared, whose Bath base is at the Innovation Centre in Carpenter House,...
Bath-based tech firm Actual Experience has won a top award for its spin out from London’s Queen Mary University. The firm, which improves digital supply chains for major firms through leading-edge analytics, was co-founded by Queen Mary academic Jonathan Pitts and businessman Dave Page, pictured below, in 2009 and floated on the London Stock...
Some of Bath’s leading tech entrepreneurs visited Buckingham Palace earlier this week for a special reception with the royal family to recognise the sector’s powerful economic contribution. The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh were joined at the event by The Duke of Cambridge, The Duke of Gloucester, The Duke of Kent and The...
By Nick Sturge, centre director, SETsquared and Vice-chair, High-Tech Sector Group, West of England Local Enterprise Partnership Having worked with nearly 300 high-tech start-up businesses – some for just an hour, some for several years – and having done a start-up myself, I've watched, very carefully, how leadership develops and evolves over the life...
Trade and investment minister Lord Livingston has been given a glimpse of the innovation and global ambitions of specialist software firm SciSys on a visit to its Chippenham headquarters. The firm, which develops bespoke IT services and integrated systems in a range of sectors including space and defence, is looking to grow its international...
International specialist software company Quality System Solutions has moved its head office to Chippenham to meet its expansion plans. The firm, behind the international cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) software CallPro CRM, has taken a five-year lease on a 2,400 sq ft unit at Lansdowne Court on the town’s Bumpers Farm business park. It...
A new fund focusing on investing in the Bath area’s early stage tech businesses is to be launched by Technology Venture Partners, a new independent venture capital fund manager based in the region. Technology Venture Partners is to start the fund to run alongside YFM Equity Partners’ closed South West Ventures Fund, which it...
