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The lowdown on Phlo, the Glasgow-based startup that's on a mission to provide patients with faster, easier and more convenient access to their medication. Like many sectors, pharmacies have been experiencing problems with workforce shortages, operating costs, rising prices, and by 2024, it’s predicted that as many as 30,000 highstreet pharmacies will be closed down. This is bad for two o...
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The lowdown on Kelpi, the startup that's using seaweed to develop an innovative solution to the global plastic packaging problem. In the UK alone, households throw away around 100 billion articles of plastic packaging every year. As we have written so many times now, this is massively damaging to the environment and to sea life, because no matter where plastic ends up being discarded, it pollut...
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Catalyst opens call for aspiring entrepreneurs and innovators for its annual INVENT competition. Apply now to help get your idea to the next stage... Catalyst’s INVENT 2023 competition for aspiring entrepreneurs and innovators is now open, with a top prize of £25,000 for the overall winner. Hosted by technology hub Catalyst with headline partner Bank of Ireland, the annual INVENT c...
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Metaverse-as-a-service; virtual reality platform Emperia and its immersive digital experiences for the retail, fashion and art sectors. Some people can’t stand shopping. They would rather be doing almost anything else, and if they must buy a new shirt, they’ll either do it online or walk into a shop, grab the first thing they see that fits, and be done with it. Other people can spen...
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Feel that your business could do with a little more innovation? Chris Thomason, innovation expert, author and founder of Ingenious Growth shares insights on how freaky thinking can help with just that. When you had the idea for your new business, chances are it didn’t happen at work. Perhaps you were in a gym, on a beach, cooking a meal, or some other activity when you were (either litera...
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The lowdown on the Regional Winners of Tech Nation's Rising Stars competition - some of the UK's most promising early stage tech companies. For the past decade, the Tech Nation team have worked tirelessly to promote and nurture the UK’s tech sector, from developing innovative Fintech and AI programmes through to creating important resources such as the Diversity and Inclusion Toolkit. The...
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The innovative solution to vaccine wastage - Bristol-based biotech startup EnsiliTech develops tech to enable refrigeration-free vaccine storage. We heard stories during the pandemic of shipments of the vaccine going to waste because something went wrong with the refrigeration. Typically, vaccines must be kept refrigerated, at sub-zero temperatures, otherwise they will break down and become un...
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Leading AI startup Aiir Innovations secures major investment to support global expansion and help set a new standard for engine inspections. Aiir Innovations, a leading startup in artificial intelligence (AI) for the visual inspection of aircraft engines, has raised €2.1M in an oversubscribed investment round, led by VC fund Borski Fund, with the participation of HearstLab Europe and exist...
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Want to learn a new language? Weeve is an innovative startup that has created an innovative, creative and effective way to help you do just that. Learning a new language is both difficult and rewarding. It’s easier to just go to a foreign country and speak louder and louder at people until they understand, right? But for some reason people tend to respect you a little more if you actuall...
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  The lowdown on Danish startup EvodiaBio and its innovative tech that produces sustainable aromas for the food and beverage industry. Have you ever thought about how the process of removing alcohol from beer to make non-alcoholic beer also removes the smell of beer? That’s rhetorical - of course you have. The process, which is usually heat-based, kills off that hoppy scent, and as we...
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