The Rt Hon Vince Cable, Secretary of State for BusinessInnovation and Skills, visited The University of Manchester Incubator Company (UMIC) on Thursday 21 October 2010. He was given a tour of the world-class business incubation resources in the Core Technology Facility. Dr Cable met with the Deputy President and Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University Professor [...]

Northwest-based water treatment specialists nets £100K Northwest based company, Arvia Technology, has scooped first place in sustainability in a competition designed to support innovation at the ‘Innovate10’ event in London. As the winner in their category, Arvia, a spin-out from The University of Manchester, was awarded £100,000 to further their development of a chemical and [...]

A Proof-of-Principle project supported by the UMIP Premier Fund has been boosted by the award of a Nobel Prize for the background science. The prize was given to Professor Andre Geim and Dr Konstantin Novoselov, both at The University of Manchester, for their research on Graphene. Graphene is a flat layer of carbon atoms tightly [...]