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Tech Startups take note! With the ambition to drive new thinking, explore new tech and build pioneering solutions, BMW Group Financial Services Collaboration Lab are looking to collaborate with a number of selected innovative tech startups and entrepreneurs during a ten week programme based in Columbus, Ohio, USA.   Based at the Americas Regional Services Center in Columbus, Ohio, selected s...
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The Small Robot Company - The lowdown on the agri-tech startup that's using robotics and AI to innovate the farming industry through small robots... Farming is expensive. We hear time and time again on the news about how farmers are making pennies on some of their produce, or even working at a loss to ensure that they aren’t passed over by retailers. We have written before about startups su...
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Oracle’s Startup Cloud Accelerator focuses on reimagining enterprise innovation through partnerships with startups that foster codevelopment and co-innovation, where both parties win. With applications currently open for five startups to join cohort 2, we thought it wise to share all the key details on this Bristol-based programme. Aiming to help startups scale their enterprise-grade produc...
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Compass News - the innovative journalism startup that'll help you navigate the world of news from the publishers you can trust. Consuming news is both easier and harder these days than ever before. Some outlets even put their news on paper, an idea they saw in a chip shop, we’re guessing. Print? Is that what it’s called? That doesn’t sound right. Either way, a dozen news so...
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Perlego - The EdTech startup which is on a mission to make textbooks more affordable via its innovative subscription service As we all know, studying can be an expensive business. And therefore anything which can potentially help students save some money ought to be welcomed with open arms - especially when it’s not only helping them save money but also helping them study at the same time.C...
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Drover - the startup that offers all inclusive car subscriptions for everyday and private hire drivers across the UK. Cars are expensive. A few of the Startacus team can attest to that. A fairly priced second-hand car is all well and good, but something’s wrong when you pay a few times that for repair. You said the brakes were new! Anyway, the point is insurance is expensive; fuel, repairs...
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Veri is aiming to take the pain and paper out of compliance and quality assurance with their software that verifies quality assurance and ensures excellent outcomes. Who hates paper? Well, okay not literally paper 'per se', but paperwork and work-associated paper trails? Of course you do, well apart from YOU Sarah, but that's fine. Having delivered training in data protection, and after 20 y...
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Popsa - the innovative app that's using AI to disrupt the photobook market.As printed photographs have given way to digital photos, so the photo album has given way to the photobook. We haven’t lost the desire to have a physical collection of our photographs for posterity, but it has become a little less easy. That little digital-photo printer is handy, but where did you leave the power cabl...
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"Although a lot of companies are now talking about open innovation and developing start-up collaboration programmes, it’s fair to say that not an enormous number are doing it well." Oliver Camp, Account Manager at McCann Enterprise shares his thoughts and experiences on open and collaborative innovation. If there’s one problem with big gatherings of like-minded people, it’s that...
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The Liverpool startup, Oh This Way, that's providing alternative education and training for creative people, bridging the gap between education and industry.  Older generations like to complain that the young are lazy and brought up wrong, and that this generation and then this generation will be the cause of the world ceasing to spin. But then along come people like Robyn Dooley to pro...
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