Case Studies

Beirhope Alpacas

The ABCs….and Ds of Success

Alpacas, branding, collaboration……and diversification are the keys to success for a Borders’ based company.

Beirhope Alpacas are a family-owned smallholding located in the stunning Cheviot Hills. They started operating in 2017 with five alpacas and 12 acres of smallholding. Since then, the business has thrived and managed to withstand the COVID-19 crisis.

Karen Hamilton

The second Scottish Funding Council Innovation Voucher awarded to a college has been given to fund a collaboration between Designer and Dressmaker, Karen Hamilton and Dundee and Angus College for a project on a pioneering 3D lace printing project.

Renewable Parts Ltd

Interface successfully matched Renewable Parts Ltd to the University of Strathclyde to develop an innovation programme for the repair of wind turbine parts.

Networks4Learning

Networks4Learning Limited is a Social Enterprise based in Glasgow. With the support of Ruth Oliver from Interface and an Innovation Voucher from the Scottish Funding Council, they have successfully collaborated with the University of Glasgow to develop affordable smart greenhouse farming applications for Africa.

Attis Fitness Ltd

Attis Fitness is developing an innovative smart wearable for runners. The product is a compression legging that has smart sensors embedded into the fabric. Interface matched the company with CENSIS to help develop its initial demonstrator, especially the challenge of integration of the sensor data to enhanced performance.

TransK9

After establishing relevant academic expertise, Interface was able to successfully set up a collaboration with the University of the West of Scotland’s Engineering Department in Paisley to crash test TransK9’s latest dog cage.

Welbot

Welbot initially collaborated with the University of Strathclyde to understand how they could extract knowledge and insights from data and machine learning, especially around autonomous, self-teaching systems that can analyse data and provide insights to human behaviour. They then went on to work with both the University of Edinburgh and the University of Aberdeen.

Investment Solver (Inbest)

Interface connects Investment Solver Ltd to University of Edinburgh to develop Inbest, a data analytics platform, aimed to measure, track and improve the financial well-being of UK consumers.

Norscot Joinery Ltd

Interface introduced Norscot Joinery Ltd to the University of Strathclyde, who has a wealth of expertise and knowledge of the integration of Building Information Modelling and gaming software, to create a specialised user experience to enable Norscot's clients to virtually experience their bespoke homes through new, innovative smartphone technology.

YO! Marketing (now merged with Doqaru Ltd)

Yekemi Otaru had an innovative idea to design an intelligent solution using a machine learning algorithm to help business owners make marketing decisions more easily. After approaching Interface to help find the necessary academic expertise, we matched Yekemi with machine learning, dataset modelling and data mining expertise at Abertay University.

KINGDOM Scotland Ltd

KINGDOM Scotland collaborated with the University of St Andrews to draw on the rich flavours and textures of Scotland’s cultural heritage – from landscape and mythology to whisky distilling and the history of perfume in Scotland – to inspire and develop a luxury brand of perfume.

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