Bath & Bristol Enterprise Network - News

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SETsquared Centre is part of Bristol’s future!

The role of the University of Bristol’s SETsquared Business Acceleration Centre in supporting entrepreneurial start ups has been recognised as being core to the future of the City.

Recovery on firmer footing

The UK's economy is picking up

Promising economic data has raised hopes that the UK's fragile recovery may be strengthening.

Invest in Bristol News February 2010

Invest In Bristol News is a monthly e-bulletin, which includes stories of successful investment in Bristol. Headlines from the February 2010 issue of Invest in Bristol News are listed below:

Bristol students win inaugural ‘enterprise varsity’ competition

Students from the University of Bristol won the first ‘Inter-University Business Challenge’ held on 17 February at Deloitte’s Bristol offices on Temple Quay.

Lauterbach To Demonstrate Multi-core Debugging at Embedded Masterclass

Lauterbach will be running live demonstrations of debug and trace capability on both an eight core Mips system running in SMP mode and also trace and code analysis on a PIC32 processor at this year's UK Embedded Masterclass event.

Community groups invited to apply for Raising & Giving Fund grants

The University of Bristol Students’ Union is inviting local voluntary and community groups in Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset to apply now for grants of up to £1,000 from the Union’s Raising & Giving [RAG] Fund.

Growth companies to benefit from fundraising bonanza

VCTs may raise £300 million this year

As much as £300 million is expected to be raised this tax year for investment in growing businesses, according to fund managers.

£10 million for Bristol’s SPark - one of the UK’s biggest science parks

An extra £10 million for SPark, the much anticipated £300 million science park for Bristol and Bath, has been announced today, in preparation for work to start on site this spring.

Wind River Lifts the Lid off Symmetrical Multi-Processing at the UK Embedded Masterclass

Half-day workshop that introduces engineers to the process of migrating an application running in single-core mode to run in SMP (symmetric multi-processing) mode, taking advantage of the multiple cores to gain an increase in performance.

National Composites Centre (NCC) Launch event to take place in Bristol

Bristol has been named as the location of a new National Composites Centre (NCC) which will be a cornerstone of the UK Composites Strategy. The new Centre will be led by industry partners in collaboration with the University of Bristol.