Tekes, the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation have released a new report about the potential for cross-pollination of skills from Bioinformatics to other industry areas.

The site is only available in Finnish at present, but the report is in English.
www.tekes.fi/info/bio-ict


 

SSC will be attending Engage with Strathclyde Week and I'm particularly interested in their seminars on the Knowledge Exchange and also on their new Stem Cells networking area.
http://www.strath.ac.uk/engage/Engage with Strathclyde

We are currently working on material for the new SSC website. I'm looking to include some supportive client recommendations and was wondering if anyone else, perhaps not formally a client, might have supportive offerrings to make. The reward is a link to your website from ours!

Having great fun with the Tekes project. Its really interesting for me to be having conversations with people from all arts&parts who are thinking about how Bioinformatics and skills underpinning Bioinformatics can be used in other industry areas. I'm learning about Clean Fuel development from Synthetic Biology, Food Ingredient identification and Protected Designation of Origin, Image Processing techniques and their application to 24hr monitoring of things as diverse as plant growth and airport passport control....and everyone's bug-bear is the same - make data conversion easier....that old chestnut.

SSC's work with Young Entrepreneurs continues. Strathclyde University, Knowledge Exchange Hub, Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences students are mentored by SSC to produce Marketing reports on real commercialisation opportunities for Strathclyde's technology rather than a traditional Final Year project.