Bristol Technology Festival returns for its third edition later this year with the city hosting more than 50 events with themes spanning the breadth and depth of its growing tech and digital sector. The current plans are to hold the events in a hybrid model with a selection of...
Lawyers in the Bristol office of international law firm Osborne Clarke have advised Microsoft in its partnership with the Met Office to develop a £1bn-plus world-leading weather and forecasting and climate modelling supercomputer. The Met office said the supercomputer, which is due to be operational from next summer, will...
Investment by foreign businesses into the South West rose last year despite the pandemic in contrast to a fall for the UK as a whole. According to a new report by accountancy group EY, the South West achieved a 6.7% increase in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) projects in 2020...
West of England Metro Mayor Dan Norris is calling on employers to help increase the number of apprenticeships in the region. With an estimated £4m to £8m of unused Apprenticeship Levy funds returned to the Treasury each year, Mayor Norris is calling for apprentice levy-paying employers to give their unused funds to a new...
Payaca, a Bristol software business revolutionising the way home improvement firms manage their workloads, has clinched £400,000 in funding, enabling it to create seven jobs over the next six months. The firm has developed job management software that is successfully being used by more than 260 businesses to manage everything from creating interactive proposals with multiple payment options through to integrations...
The region’s largest business group has urged the Prime Minister to help create a more sustainable future for business at this weekend’s G7 summit in Cornwall. The British Chambers of Commerce South West (BCCSW) – which includes Bristol Chamber of Commerce parent group Business West – has written to...
Robot football players met newly elected Metro Mayor Dan Norris as they took part in a futuristic soccer tournament at Bristol’s We The Curious science centre. Ahead of the bank holiday weekend and half term the Metro Mayor visited the educational tourism attraction and personalised his own robot ahead of...
Specialist laboratory facilities, services and support for Bristol’s expanding science and engineering ecosystem have come a step closer as construction of the city’s £6m deep tech incubator passes the half-way mark. The 30,000 sq ft incubator in Old Market will house up to 250 highly skilled workers in the...
Bristol has again been hailed as one of the UK’s top tech hotspots – this time in a report by electronics retailer Carphone Warehouse. The city, which often heads national rankings for its tech strength, particularly in areas such as virtual reality, joins London and Edinburgh in Carphone Warehouse’s...
A pioneering Bristol medical firm working at the leading edge of gene therapy to combat a range of illnesses has secured funding of more than £1.4m. Clifton-based Argonaute RNA aims to use the power of RNA interference (RNAi) to create ground-breaking medicines that harness the body’s natural cell mechanisms...
A business support programme showing how small and medium-sized Bristol firms can benefit from sustainable innovation has been launched by world-leading business incubator SETsquared and the University of Bath. The three-year programme, which has been funded by the European Regional Development and available for firms based in the West...
A new partnership that includes national law firm TLT and ethical bank Triodos’s UK business – both based Bristol – is seeking to support growth of employee ownership. Backed by the Employee Ownership Association, the partnership will share its members’ collective insight and expertise on the benefits of staff...
The opportunities for business growth and expansion through trade are huge. If you’re thinking about trading with the EU and other markets, or want to continue trading, there are rules you need to follow for importing and exporting. It can be overwhelming, but the West of England Combined Authority’s...
