Toy designer Gillian Logan pitched her Skinny Sketcher drawing kit idea at the Inventors Workshop in 2014, and has since achieved success with the product. But having made a number of mistakes to get there, she’s outlined 12 errors frequently made by product design startups, and how steer clear of them.
Chancellor George Osborne’s Emergency Budget contained little concrete detail about the funding prospects for the nation’s science sector, but the 2015 Autumn Statement and Spending Review has confirmed an increase in investment in catapult centres.
Sphere Fluidics is an Everline Future 50 company pioneering the development of new technology for single cell analysis. Cyto-Mine is the first machine of its kind and enables analysis of millions of single cells in novel biochips and isolation of rare variants which cause disease. This will also allow them to produce new medicines.
Mubaloo founder and digital entrepreneur Mark Mason has joined the leadership team of R&D tax credit consultancy ForrestBrown in order to assist the firm’s continuing growth and help digital technology firms access the ‘considerable levels’ of tax relief they may be eligible to claim against R&D spend.
