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Nottingham Trent’s Making The Future exhibition opens this month
The creative works of recent Nottingham Trent University graduates feature in Making The Future 2010, opening at three of the...
Submitted: 01 Sep 2010

Taxi Studio rebrands Life on Mars scriptwriting duo
BDI member Taxi Studio, the Bristol-based strategic branding, packaging and retail graphics consultancy, has rebranded leadin...
Submitted: 01 Sep 2010

European Patent Office IP training materials – invitation to tender
Earlier this year, the European Patent Office (EPO) invited project partners and other experts to revise or develop training ...
Submitted: 01 Sep 2010

30 September deadline looms for €160m GE ecomagination Challenge
After investing $5 billion in R&D in its first five years, GE is doubling its ecomagination investment and collaborations to...
Submitted: 01 Sep 2010

WIPO intellectual property newsletter for SMEs
WIPO SMEs Newsletter is a free monthly e-publication from the SMEs Division of the World Intellectual Property Organization (...
Submitted: 01 Sep 2010

Robots invade London Design Festival
In what could be a scene from Doctor Who or War of the Worlds, this year's London Design Festival will feature a spectacular ...
Submitted: 31 Aug 2010

£40,000 Shell Springboard Awards – call for entries
UK-based small to medium-size enterprises have until Guy Fawkes Night to submit entries for this year’s Shell Springboa...
Submitted: 25 Aug 2010

CompeteFor contract opportunities for London 2012
Delivering the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games requires the procurement of goods, works and services from an enormou...
Submitted: 09 Aug 2010

BDI’s Paul Priestman unveils Britain’s high speed train concept
Britain’s leading transport designer has unveiled his concept for the UK’s new 225mph high speed train in a pre-e...
Submitted: 08 Aug 2010

BDI announces 170,000 Design & Innovation News views per month
The latest web analytics from British Design Innovation (BDI), the trade organisation for leading industrial designers, servi...
Submitted: 08 Aug 2010

Thales aviation security innovation funding: call for submissions
Thales UK and Intellect have launched a £50,000 prize fund to identify and trial new technologies, solutions and ideas from ...
Submitted: 06 Aug 2010

Government to reassess university research commercialisation?
The universities and science minister David Willetts is postponing changes to the way in which the impact of UK university re...
Submitted: 06 Aug 2010

Design Awards & Events

Design Management Europe Award 2010 – call for entries
This year's Design Management Europe Award – the only award dedicated to the management of design in companies and orga...
Submitted: 12 Aug 2010

Packaging

Golden Revamp for go ahead!
tdg The Design Group, the brand communications and packaging design consultancy, has developed a new packaging design for go ahe...
Submitted: 23 Aug 2010

Creative Services

Olympus TV campaign, created by Bonfire CI, launches this week
The latest Olympus TV campaign – created by agency Bonfire Creative Intelligence, part of Envibra Group – is launchi...
Submitted: 26 Aug 2010

Retail & Commercial Interiors

Dalziel and Pow work to design new Saudi Arabian brand
Dalziel and Pow have been appointed to to develop and design a new Middle Eastern home fashion retail offer, which will introduc...
Submitted: 19 Aug 2010

Interior Accessories

Conka’s electronics consumer accessory has legs
The Breffo SpiderPodium is a portable and flexible multi-use accessory for the electronics consumer goods market designed by ...
Submitted: 25 Aug 2010

Design & Business Media

Looking Good: A free introduction to industrial design for SMEs
Looking Good, an introduction to industrial designs for SMEs, is the second in a series of nine guides on intellectual proper...
Submitted: 12 Aug 2010

Innovation

The Economist readers vote for Innovation Awards 2010 category winner
Which innovative idea has the potential to radically change society? Readers of The Economist have until 15 October to answer...
Submitted: 08 Aug 2010

€160m GE Open Innovation Challenge: create the smart grid
GE is seeking to attract entries from Europe’s brightest innovators and researchers in a €160 million smart grid ...
Submitted: 08 Aug 2010

Commercialisation partners sought by Isis Innovation, Oxford
A new design of flow-diverting stent for direct treatment of brain aneurysms, which lowers cost and risk by removing the need...
Submitted: 08 Aug 2010

Live Events & Exhibitions

Biofit 2010 fosters innovation and technology transfer
Biofit is a new international event aimed at stimulating and facilitating technology transfer and collaborative projects in t...
Submitted: 25 Aug 2010

Register your interest in the Innovate 2010 conference today
Innovate 2010: Connect for Growth
12 October, London

Innovate is the leading networking, conference and e...
Submitted: 08 Aug 2010

Register now for TCT Live 2010, the free additive manufacturing show
Leading players in the software, product development and manufacturing sectors will be showing the latest technologies to hel...
Submitted: 08 Aug 2010

Register now for SciTech Europe, Brussels
SciTech Europe
Tuesday 23 November
The Square, Mont des Arts, Brussels, Belgium

Would you benefit fr...
Submitted: 08 Aug 2010

5th Shanghai Design Biennial, 16-18 September
The 5th Shanghai Design Biennial (SDB2010) is to be held in the city on 16-18 September as an adjunct to Expo 2010 Shanghai C...
Submitted: 08 Aug 2010

Westminster Forum: Intellectual property, innovation and the UK economy
This seminar, held in Central London on Wednesday 3 November, will bring out latest thinking on the social and economic value...
Submitted: 08 Aug 2010