Business West, the region’s largest business organisation, has welcomed the launch today of the government’s Kickstart scheme, which offers subsidised job placements to out-of-work young people. Under the £2bn programme, 16 to 24 year olds claiming Universal Credit and at risk of long-term unemployment, will be able to gain six-month work placements. The government...
Bath tech and creative businesses seeking equity investment of between £100,000 and £2m are being invited to take part in the next Silicon Gorge showcase. Taking place on November 12 as part of Bristol Technology Festival, the event will give up to 12 start-ups or scale-ups the chance to pitch to a virtual room...
The coronavirus pandemic has hit profits at more than 60% of firms in the West of England – with nearly one-in-seven fearing they will never return to pre-Covid levels of activity, according to the largest business survey in the region. Just under a quarter of firms have, or plan to, axe jobs with a...
The West of England is to be showcased as a national centre for legaltech by drawing on its strengths in both technology and law and promoting innovation in the fast-growing sector. The region is already acknowledged as having one of the UK’s fastest-growing legaltech sectors with many of its law firms undertaking pioneering work...
A company that started out providing electronic access to library databases from its Bath headquarters and is now a world-leading identity and access management specialist is celebrating its 25th anniversary. OpenAthens was launched to commercially exploit single sign-on software originally developed by the IT department of the University of Bath. The team working on the...
Novia Financial, the Bath-based provider of wealth management service for investment advisers, has launched a service to ensure the security of client documents using biometric verification. The service, the result of a partnership with award-winning technology firm Credas, uses leading-edge technology to verify that a document truly belongs to the person making the transaction. ...
A retired wheelchair athlete and technology consultant from Bath who developed a fast, low-cost way to protect carers working with Covid-19 patients has received a £100,000 investment. Mat Campbell-Hill, pictured, created the AerosolShield mini-isolation tent, put it into production and took the first orders within just seven days. Staff who have used it say...
A £10m innovation project backed by the University of Bath to help West of England businesses make products that are lighter, more fuel efficient and have less waste and so reduce carbon emissions has been officially launched. The Digital Engineering Technology & Innovation (DETI) initiative will play an important role in driving innovation and...
A University of Bath student has won a top prize for in a competition on how to tackle Earth’s problems from space. Henry Shepherd was awarded the accolade by the UK Space Agency (UKSA), which had asked for imaginative ideas to combat global and local problems using space. Henry, a physics undergraduate about to...
Plans for an innovative new training centre in Bath focussed on digital skills and careers – thought to be the first of its kind in the UK – been given a £300,000 boost. I-START, to be based on Bath College’s City Centre campus, will help local people gain new skills and re-train for roles...
