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Acceleration Through Innovation have this month opened their latest Pop-up Innovation Centre in St Austell, following the success of ones hosted in Bodmin and Launceston. The new Pop-up Innovation Centre opened for business on Tuesday 10th April in Unit 15-16 at St Austell Business Park and will operate until the end of July 2018. The

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

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

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

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