Here’s some coverage from The Scotsman for our client Converge Challenge – the biggest academic entrepreneurial showcase competition in Scotland. Director, Olga Kozlova, explains how Academics can effectively commercialise their research.
Livingston, Scotland Tuesday 6th August 2013; Orenda Energy Solutions, a recent addition to the UK medium wind market, has designed and manufactured a pioneering 51kW wind turbine which facilitates simple and safe servicing due to a patented proprietary design mechanism embedded in its tower.
Acumen has been working with an academic start-up business at the University of Edinburgh which is looking to find a cure for the debilitating hearing condition of Tinnitus, which affects millions of people, globally.
The University of Edinburgh is to invest in a venture capital fund focusing on early stage life sciences companies. The new fund, which will be managed by US-based Rock Spring Ventures, will engage closely with the University’s company formation teams at Edinburgh Research and Innovation and Edinburgh BioQuarter. Spin-out and start-up companies from the University’s research labs will make up a substantial proportion of the fund’s deal-flow.
Acumen client Henderson Loggie receiving excellent coverage in Scottish Legal News on how legal firms can avoid financial pitfalls against the background of ongoing challenging economic conditions
The company behind ‘Deep Heat’, one of the UK’s iconic healthcare brands, has embarked on a collaboration with the Edinburgh Complex Fluids Partnership (ECFP) based at the University of Edinburgh, to research ways that further improve the production processes and operational efficiencies across its range of topically applied products.
Here is a recently-published article written by Acumen Director, Kevin Dorrian for the IPRA – International Public Relations Association – on how ‘The ‘Green’ lobby can gain a lot of help from the Public Relations industry.
A great example of social media in action. The Channel 4 programme Plane Crash – a dramatic new documentary following an international team of scientists, experts and elite pilots as they deliberately crash land a 170-seat Boeing 727 passenger jet to provide a once-in-a-generation chance to study the mechanics of a plane crash in real time.
Newspapers everywhere are under greater pressure than ever before to come up with the answer to how they can survive in 2012 and beyond. As they face a blitz attack of competing communications channels from Twitter to Facebook, the position of traditional newspapers is under threat, so it is not a light-hearted matter – far from it – and is one which has an impact upon everyone in business.
Acumen client Oceaneering is hosting a delegation from one of the world’s leading oil operators in the next few weeks….
