The Medilink Midlands Business Awards 2024 will see a ‘winner of all winners’ awarded a £5,000 prize to help advance their innovation. To celebrate 20 years of delivering business support to the region’s life sciences and medtech businesses, Medilink Midlands is offering a £5k prize to one lucky finalist which...
Medilink Midlands has pledged support to the Innovate Cambridge Charter
Medilink Midlands has joined several other organisations by pledging support to the Innovate Cambridge Charter. The Greater Cambridge city region (Cambridge) is established as a globally leading innovation ecosystem. Cambridge is the ‘unicorn capital of Europe’ for deep tech and life sciences companies and should continue to be the most...
Region’s healthtech businesses gather to hear from Shoosmiths and others as part of West Midlands Health Tech Innovation Accelerator drive
Law firm Shoosmiths has collaborated with businesses in the region to support the West Midlands Health Tech Innovation Accelerator (WMHTIA) with its aim to build a life sciences and health tech ecosystem so businesses in the sector can thrive. The aim of WMHTIA is to tackle the challenges companies face...
Nottingham University Business School upcoming programmes
Nottingham University Business School is committed to ground-breaking research and thought leadership. Executive Education aims to share this knowledge with businesses through our short courses. Supporting SMEs is at the heart of Executive Education and we are particularly committed to supporting SMEs from the East Midlands region. Nottingham University Business...
Health Innovation East Midlands Surgical Innovation Exchange event
Health Innovation East Midlands (HIEM) would like to invite innovators who provide solutions which can positively impact our local surgical pathways (from initial referral to post operative care) to apply to showcase their innovation at our next Surgical Innovation Exchange. The event will take place virtually on the morning of...
Package for life sciences and manufacturing R&D announced ahead of Spring Budget
Ahead of the Spring Budget this week, the chancellor Jeremy Hunt has announced an investment package in the UK’s life sciences and manufacturing sectors. The funding will go towards several companies and projects who are making technology in sectors key to economic growth and part of wider government support to...
Round table report: What’s next for AI in healthtech
Recently Medilink Midlands CEO Melanie Davidson took place in a round table hosted by The Business Desk. The round table, sponsored by Tank, a digital marketing agency, saw clinicians, academics, healthtech and data security experts discuss the potential benefits of implementing new technologies, focusing specifically on the role of AI,...
InterAct & GW+Co workshop
GW+Co and the InterAct Network will be coming together on Thursday 21st March at the Manufacturing Technology Centre in Coventry to host a workshop examining current perceptions of manufacturing and how 'collaborative design’ through aligning strategy, brand and culture can help your business’ image. Who is this event for? Leaders of...
Medilink UK appointed exclusive UK partner by Messe Düsseldorf
Medilink UK, the largest representative body in the UK for life science companies has been chosen as the exclusive UK partner by Messe Düsseldorf for MEDICA 2024 in Germany, one of the biggest medical B2B trade fairs in the world. The partnership also includes other medical trade fairs worldwide organised...
CBBC Knowledge Exchange Partnership Tour of the Greater Bay Area for UK Innovation Leaders – 9-11 April 2024 – Expression of Interest
The China-Britain Business Council (CBBC) is organising a tour for UK higher education senior leaders for research and international activities, start-ups, entrepreneurial researchers, and innovators to visit the Greater Bay Area (GBA) between the 9-11 April 2024. The theme of the tour is Knowledge Exchange Partnerships (KEP). There will be...