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08 Dec 2020

STFC celebrates 10 years of bringing space technology to UK start-ups

The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) is celebrating 10 years of being part of what is now the world’s largest space innovation network for technology start-ups. For the UK…

18 Sep 2020

World-first technology goes with the grain

Scottish start-up Crover unveils world-first technology at the TechCrunch Start-up Battlefield 2020.World-first agricultural technology, designed to reduce waste and save millions of tonnes of grain stock each year, has been…

06 Jul 2020

New space start-up Craft Prospect – graduates from business incubation programme at the Higgs Centre

Craft Prospect – the NewSpace company providing quantum and AI-enabled space technologies for small satellite space missions – is the first incubatee to graduate from the business incubation centre (BIC)…

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11 Jun 2020

Could coffee be the world’s first ever commodity traded with satellite data?

Fintech start-up, Trade in Space, thinks so… With around two billion cups drunk every day (95m of those consumed in the UK), coffee is, by a country mile, the world’s…

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25 Feb 2020

Higgs Centre incubator company – Touchlab – qualify on $10M ANA Avatar XPRIZE Competition

The ANA Avatar XPRIZE Competition is a global competition, sponsored by All Nippon Airways (ANA). Over 4 years, it will challenge teams around the world to develop a remotely-controlled teleoperated…

Guatemala’s first ever CubeSat satellite testing at Higgs Centre
17 Feb 2020

Central American University visits the Higgs Centre to test Guatemala’s first ever CubeSat satellite

The Higgs Centre for Innovation – a ground-breaking new business incubation hub, created by the Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC) in partnership with the University of Edinburgh has welcomed…

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17 Feb 2020

Meet ‘new space’ start-up – Responsive Access – the latest incubator company at the Higgs Centre

New Space company, Responsive Access, gets lunch ready at its Edinburgh HQ! We join spacepreneurs Andrew Paliwoda, CEO and Daniel Smith, Marketing Director for a space food menu, and to…

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04 Feb 2020

STFC’s Higgs Centre for Innovation welcomes Crover Ltd

The Higgs Centre for Innovation – a Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) business incubation hub – welcomes cutting-edge agri-tech start-up Crover Ltd, to the European Space Agency Business Incubation…