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Just the tonic

20 January 2020

In today’s blog, we asked Gary Morren and Don Lawson a few questions about the launch of their new product and how, supported by Interface, collaborating with multiple universities has helped their product development process.

Helping businesses with their first class ideas

24 July 2018

It’s the time of year for summer graduations. You may have noticed an added influx of visiting friends and relatives to our towns and cities. But did you know Scotland has more world-class universities than any other country by head of population? We have 2,000 academic departments with more than 15,000 academic staff and over 1,200 facilities on our doorstep.

DemoFest: Bringing Research to Life

12 July 2018

It might be mid-summer, but here in the SICSA office we are already well ahead with planning our main knowledge exchange event of the year “DemoFest: Bringing Research to Life”, which takes place in Edinburgh in the autumn.

Complaints for tourism businesses can be good

09 July 2018

Tourism is primarily a service industry which lives or dies on the quality of customer service and on consumer (visitor) feedback. This feedback, together with the learning from complaints, could be used to drive service innovation, customer loyalty and competitive advantage in the tourism sector.

Innovation scores highly in World Cup

26 June 2018

Whatever the final score, innovation continues to stretch the boundaries in all aspects of sport from broadcasting to kit, from robots to clean stadiums to modelling crowd control.

Caroline Parkinson at the National Library of Scotland

The Business of Voguing

20 June 2018

At a recent BIMA event on the Future of Fashion I met Elaine Simpson from the National Library of Scotland, who mentioned that NLS was looking at ways its 11 floors of jam packed books, archives, and materials could help inspire the artists and creative entrepreneurs of Scotland to innovate.

Here Comes the CryptoCreative

06 June 2018

Remember how Netflix scuppered Blockbuster or how mp3 changed music distribution?

Rethink to change the world

05 June 2018

Friday 1st June saw TEDxGlasgow 2018 with the theme of Rethink. And it certainly did what it said on the tin!

Supporting businesses with a wealth of information

21 May 2018

As part of our “Meet the team” series, this week we put a few questions to one of our newest recruit, Kirsty Buchanan (pictured with Gary Hogan), who joined from the University of the Highlands and Islands to engage with businesses through the region.

Today’s rain is tomorrow’s whisky #WorldWhiskyDay

14 May 2018

To mark World Whisky Day on 19^th May, we are celebrating the many exciting and ground-breaking business-academic collaborations supported by Interface; from ambitions to make Raasay’s first (legal) whisky, to plans to create a vertical distillery.

Six ways tourist businesses can prepare for tomorrow’s world

09 May 2018

In our latest blog Graeme Codrington gave six tips to help our industry prepare for tomorrow’s world today.

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