16.12.2010
£460,000 has been granted to a project which will encourage over 1,000 disadvantaged or disabled people to set up their own business.
The Northern Pinetree Trust offers free provision to people with a disability, long-term illness or to those who live in a disadvantaged community.
It is providing the match funding for the project,...
15.12.2010
A NORTH East innovation centre has helped secure over €6m for the world’s largest collaborative nanofluids project.
NanoHex involves 12 organisations from Europe and Israel and will be led by Northumberland based thermal management solutions company, Thermacore Europe Ltd.
Enterprise Europe Network North East, managed by the Centre for...
30.11.2010
If so, we may be able to help!
As part of the Sunderland Software City initiative, the North East Business & Innovation Centre (BIC) is helping individuals over the final hurdles to starting their own software businesses.
Qualifying companies will be able to take advantage of free specialist consultancy specific to the software industry in...
24.11.2010
SUNDERLAND University’s Business School is to set up a new sounding board for firms to come and discuss their business issues.
The Business Clinic will be launched this month and will aim to source relevant experts to solve employer’s problems - with a guarantee that each enquiry will have a reply within 24 hours and a meeting within a week.
In...
10.11.2010
A DURHAM University spin-out is preparing to produce an exciting new material on a larger scale after winning investment from Northstar Ventures.
The venture capital group has sunk £100,000 into Durham Graphene Science through its Finance for Business North East Proof of Concept fund, allowing the company to develop its patented method of...