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Graduate Entrepreneur Bursaries

Published: 19th April 2018

Formation Zone have teamed up with Santander Universities to offer £2,000 bursaries to final-year students looking to start their own business after graduation, whose financial circumstances might make this seem unachievable. The bursaries are designed to help students who are ready to start their business after finishing their studies, but need a cash boost to

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From app and games designers to fashionistas, all these firms grew out of the university’s Formation Zone. It’s become one of the city’s most dynamic business incubators and the University of Plymouth’s Formation Zone has just marked 10 years of helping fledgling companies get airborne. In that time the start-up hub has worked with 209

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Cornish Businesses have created 101 new jobs by adopting digital technology with help from Superfast Business Cornwall. Businesses in Cornwall are now reaping the benefits enabled by digital technology; including reaching new markets, reducing costs and increasing productivity. This has led to business growth with at least 101 new roles being created in businesses that have

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Developments in artificial intelligence may help us to predict the probability of life on other planets, according to researchers at the University of Plymouth. A project led by PhD student Christopher Bishop and Professor in Artificial Intelligence and Cognition Angelo Cangelosi uses artificial neural networks (ANNs) to classify planets into five types. From that, it

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A PhD student at the University of Plymouth has been awarded a prestigious scholarship to advance her research into microplastics found in the marine environment. Imogen Napper has previously conducted research which showed that each use of a domestic washing machine could release more than 700,000 microscopic fibres into waste water. Now, through an award from Sky

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