Time to be bold
13 January 2021New year for me always has a sense of anticipation, a time of year when we take stock of the past year and look towards the new.
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Interface joins in fabulous food fortnight
01 September 2016This Saturday brings Scottish Food & Drink Fortnight, a nationwide event which supports and promotes Scotland’s produce, and the people who grow, make, cook and sell it.
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Rhiannon ’baaaaa’gs the job in Highlands and Islands
25 August 2016I joined the Interface team in April from VisitScotland, as one of their Industry Relationship Managers where I was supporting businesses within the tourism industry.
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Collaboration reaches new depths
18 August 2016British scientists and their industry partners are leading a mission to reveal the secrets of the deep Atlantic Ocean. The ATLAS project - involving 24 research institutions around Europe and North America - will spend four years studying the deep sea, exploring unknown ecosystems and measuring the changing ocean currents that affect our climate.
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Plaudits for Interface's people power
11 August 2016As an innovative organisation veski draws on its international networks for knowledge, inspiration and advice. An important part of my role as chief executive officer is visiting our international connections and learning how innovators in other countries operate.
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The Innovation academy launched in Glasgow
05 August 2016The word innovation is now a standard phrase in our day to day vocabulary. From mainstream TV to shopping centres all organisations are keen to show that doing things differently is no longer the preserve of large technology companies. But in the drive to innovate there may be a view that all the ideas have to come from within.
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Meet the shining star who leads innovation through collaboration
28 July 2016Professor Bill Buchanan and Lynn Crawford from The Cyber Academy were delighted to provide hospitality to Interface for the business-academic round table during a recent visit by Julia Page, Chief Executive Officer of veski [Australia] to Edinburgh Napier University. Here Lynn, the Academy's Project Manager, gives her perspective on her colleague Bill, who is a leading light in business-academic collaborations.
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A novel forecasting tool for Engineering resource planning
21 July 2016In my Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) project, cutting-edge engineering management research from Strathclyde University was transferred to Alexander Dennis Limited (ADL), the UK’s biggest bus manufacturer. The project deliverable was a forecasting tool for ADL based on a novel predictive modelling method
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Leverhulme Research Centre for Forensic Science
14 July 2016Forensic science is an important and valued pillar of the criminal justice system, however it is at a crossroads in its history and development.
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It's good to talk
07 July 2016Remember the classic advert with the late Bob Hoskins for phone giant B.T., which ended with the mantra: It's good to talk?
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The Real Food Doctors
30 June 2016If you are expecting a Gillian McKeith-esque article informing you of the fact that ‘you are what you eat’, you probably want to put your iPad down and get back to your orange zest and pomegranate quinoa.
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