Nesta's response to Budget 2013
20/3/13
Stian Westlake, Executive Director of Policy & Research: "There is a £200 million treasure for small businesses tucked inside an otherwise austere Budget 2013: it is called SBRI (Small Business Research Initiative).
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Innovation must match challenge of ageing population, says Nesta
27/2/13
Generation X-ers, such as Peter Andre who turns 40 today and Derren Brown who turns 42 today, will face a very different type of retirement, but one that our society and economy are unprepared for and where innovation is lagging, says a new report from Nesta, the UK’s innovation foundation.
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Rising to the challenge
15/2/13
Five Finalists are left in the running for a £50,000 prize which aims to find new ways to encourage communities to give time, skills and resources to help reduce isolation in old age.
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Not letting a good idea go to waste
15/2/13
Six Finalists are in the running for a challenge prize for ideas that encourage communities to come together and tackle the growing issue of waste reduction through giving time, skills and resources.
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Accelerator for tech-based social ventures receives Cabinet Office backing
14/2/13
Europe’s first accelerator for technology-based social ventures, Bethnal Green Ventures, in partnership with Nominet Trust and Nesta, is to receive support from the Cabinet Office’s Social Incubator Fund. The Cabinet Office announced the first successful applicants of the Social Incubator Fund today (14 February).
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Dundee Youngsters Encouraged to Sign-up for “One Day Digital”
13/2/13
Nesta, the UK’s innovation foundation, wants young people in Dundee and the surrounding area to come and design and make the digital technologies of the future.
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Arts sector to benefit from Digital R&D learning
6/2/13
The Digital R&D Fund for the Arts is today bringing together the arts, technology and research sectors at a forum in Manchester to discuss the nature of collaborative technology relationships, risk taking and knowledge sharing in the arts.
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E-Bacc and computer science - Nesta's response
The inclusion of computer science in the E-Bacc was a key recommendation in the influential Next Gen report published in 2011 by Nesta, with Ian Livingstone and Alex Hope. Yesterday, Nesta and Next Gen Skills published ‘Next Gen, Next Steps’, an update on the progress of the computer skills agenda.
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As Cold Weather Bites, Scottish Councils use Technology to Keep People Moving
15/1/13
Three Scottish local authorities have opened up data to technology companies to improve services for commuters and councils services to help keep citizens on the move and local services functioning.
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Say ‘hands off my bike!’ to cycle theft
10/1/13
Over half a million bikes are stolen in the UK every year and just five per cent are recovered1, putting a strain of public resources, leaving commuters stranded and meaning that thousands of cyclists hang up their helmet for good.
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'Let us keep working after retirement' say over 50’s
28/06/10
Sixty per cent of over 50's feel that there is not enough help given to them to remain in the workplace after the default retirement age, despite one in three people wanting to do so, according to new research out today.
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eoSemi wins £3m investment round to bring new silicon-based timing device to market
24/06/10
Yorkshire-based semiconductor company eoSemi has closed a £3m funding round led by NESTA Investments and Capital-E alongside existing investors Enterprise Ventures ("EV") via its RisingStars Growth Fund II and South Yorkshire Investment Fund.
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Investing in Social Enterprise: the role of tax incentives in promoting capital flows
18/05/10
In a new report for the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation, supported by NESTA, Vince Heaney (freelance writer and former deputy editor of the Financial Times' Lex column) explores the existing tax incentive schemes for enterprise and their applicability to social enterprises. This provides an invaluable manual for policymakers, entrepreneurs and their backers.
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Weakest link found in subjects necessary for careers in video games and visual effects
13/12/10
Young people, their parents and even teachers are oblivious to the importance of subjects such as maths, physics and art for a career in video games and visual effects, according to research carried out for the Livingstone-Hope Skills Review of the video games and visual effects industries.
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Online electioneering fails as voters demand more interaction
12/04/10'Although it's being talked of as a 'digital election', political parties are falling short in delivering what voters want online.'
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The legacy of the BBC Micro – how to boost the UK’s computing skills
23/05/12
A new report from Nesta and the Science Museum out today, The Legacy of the BBC Micro, shows how the BBC’s Computer Literacy Project of the 1980s, which created the much celebrated BBC Micro computer, got the UK programming, and calls for a new push to inspire the next generation of computer programmers.
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Search for NASA space cadets
11/05/2010
Two science students will have the chance to join a trip of a lifetime to NASA in California this summer to discover whether life exists at the extreme edge of the atmosphere.
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Venture capital activity worse than dotcom era
UK start ups saw a 40 per cent decline in venture capital activity in the past two years according to new research by NESTA.
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Young science aficionados recognised at National film-making award ceremony
22 July 2010
Fifteen teams of budding young film makers with a passion for science have won the prestigious 'Planet SciCast' awards at London's Royal Institution on Friday (16 July).
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Minister announces appointment of two trustess to the NESTA board
03/09/2010 'We are delighted that Sir David Henshaw and John Sheldrick are joining our Board of Trustees. Sir David will bring us his distinguished record of driving change and performance in the public sector. John brings his long experience as CFO of a FTSE 100 company plus his commitment to innovation-led manufacturing'.
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