Fast on the heels of the announcement of the creation of BioCity Scotland, further evidence of BioCity’s widening geographical reach has been provided by the recent staging of a BioEntrepreneur Boot Camp in Bangalore, India
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Research challenges government to rethink high growth business strategy
Research from Strathclyde Business School – published in Small Business Economics (Springer) – suggests that policy-makers are looking in the wrong places in their efforts to promote more high growth firms – so-called gazelles. Professor Colin Mason of Strathclyde’s Hunter Centre, who co-authored the paper with Dr Ross Brown, is proposing five ways in which the Government could productively intervene to increase the number of high growth firms.
BioCity Nottingham expands in deal with MSD to create new base for life science companies
BioCity Nottingham, one of Europe’s largest bioscience business incubators doubles in size today with the announcement that newly-formed BioCity Scotland Limited has acquired the former-MSD research facility at Newhouse, Lanarkshire. The gifting of the site by MSD (operating in the US and Canada as Merck & Co) to BioCity Scotland will allow the development of a dedicated base in central Scotland for growing bioscience, pharmaceutical, med tech and healthcare companies.
Case Study: Professor Colin Mason
PROFESSOR COLIN M. MASON HUNTER CENTRE FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP, UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE Colin Mason is Professor of Entrepreneurship in the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. His expertise covers all aspects of the entrepreneurial process but with a special focus on entrepreneurial finance, particularly business angel activity. His research has a [...]
Sygnature Discovery and Cyprotex Extend Successful Strategic Alliance for a Further Two Years
Sygnature Discovery Ltd., a leading provider of integrated drug discovery services to the pharmaceutical industry, and Cyprotex Discovery Ltd., the world’s largest specialist ADME-Tox/PK pre-clinical discovery and development CRO, today announced they have entered into an extension of their highly successful strategic alliance for a further 2 years.
Case Study: BioCity Nottingham
BioCity is a groundbreaking healthcare and bioscience innovation and businessfacility in Nottingham City Centre. BioCity is a success story of partnership and co-operation and is the result of an effective collaboration between Nottingham Trent University, the University of Nottingham and the East Midlands Development Agency. It has also received funding support from the Department for BIS, ERDF and Greater Nottingham Partnership.
Reaction to the Prime Minister’s statement on the UK Life Sciences Industry.
Dr Glenn Crocker, Chief Executive of BioCity Nottingham, a leading incubator company hosting over 70 early stage and growing businesses operating in the Life Science sector, while welcoming the government measures has a number of caveats to add.
UK Life Science start ups central to an industry in transition
Commercial laboratories across the UK are becoming part of a silent, but significant revolution in the way the life science industry operates. The impact, according to the UK Life Science Start up report published today, is already affecting the way the industry is structured, how and where new start ups come from, and the source and nature of early-stage finance.
SMALL CHANGE MAKES A BIG DIFFERENCE
Emmanuel House will launch its ‘Cup of kindness’ Christmas Campaign at 10:30 on Thursday 1st December in Lace Market Square with a reminder to all in Nottingham that many homeless and vulnerable adults could go without a main meal this winter season. The ‘outdoor dinner party’, staged with the help of New College Nottingham and CHC-Land Ltd, sets the scene for the launch which will be led by Emmanuel House CEO Ruth Shelton, supporters and service users.
Inventor glowing with pride as Flashing Goggles make a splash
Carpenter and inventor David Fryett has spent the last six years developing 12 prototypes at a cost of over £20,000 to bring his latest invention to market, but can thank his children for the original inspiration. Now Gogglows could become this Christmas’s must-have stocking filler for keen young swimmers.