Innovation

Design, technology and development specialist AND Technology Research (ANDtr) has introduced an embedded electronics-based accelerator programme. The Embedded Accelerator is designed to help UK electronics designers and innovators to scale effectively and refine prototypes and attract investors. The 12-week programme will support up to 10 startups with a cost-effective way to build a physical prototype as well as mentoring support. ...

Yesterday it was announced that Newbury Electronics is to start a new electronic design services division called Newbury Innovations, and that the team transferring to the new entity had already designed some interesting electronics, including tags for tracking wild animals. Here is some more on those tags. They were created for the Swansea Live Animal Monitoring (SLAM) group, led by ...

Looming imminently is: “M2M innovation World Congress” where, it says, you can:

Rambus has licensed the FD-SOI semiconductor process technology developed by ST-Microelectronics.

There will be a new Eureka programme for nanoelectronics innovation after 2015 and, by November, there should be a report on the directions for the new initiative.

Orange was a phenomenon. Eight years after launch it was sold for £30 billion.

Home broadband is by far the best innovation of the past decade, while social networking and reality television are the two worst, according to a survey of more than 2,000 UK consumers.

IBM predicts five life-changing innovations for the next five years.

IBM predicts five innovations that will change our behaviour over the next five years.

The Japanese often bemoan the fact that they are the Galapagos Islands of the innovation scene.