Product Development
25 May 2022In our recent blog we discuss the importance of product development when bringing an innovative idea to market, and how Interface can help your organisation on this journey.
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Everyday innovation, innovation every day
28 August 2018With the recent news of an additional £11.6m for research and innovation announced by the Scottish Funding Council, opportunities for business to partner with our academic institutes are set to thrive.
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Green Innovation in Glasgow & the Clyde Valley
21 August 2018Ruth Oliver is Interface’s Business Engagement Executive for Glasgow and Clyde Valley helping businesses by understanding their challenges, translating them into projects and identifying the right academic expertise.
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Elevator lifts business in Dundee
10 August 2018University of Dundee have entered into a unique partnership with Elevator for the joint creation of Dundee City’s first Centre of Entrepreneurship to support entrepreneurs with everything they need on their business journey.
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Helping businesses with their first class ideas
24 July 2018It’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.
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DemoFest: Bringing Research to Life
12 July 2018It 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.
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Complaints for tourism businesses can be good
09 July 2018Tourism 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.
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Innovation scores highly in World Cup
26 June 2018Whatever 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.
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The Business of Voguing
20 June 2018At 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.
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Here Comes the CryptoCreative
06 June 2018Remember how Netflix scuppered Blockbuster or how mp3 changed music distribution?
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Rethink to change the world
05 June 2018Friday 1st June saw TEDxGlasgow 2018 with the theme of Rethink. And it certainly did what it said on the tin!
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