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BioAccelerate, AberInnovation’s investment-readiness accelerator programme for early-stage businesses and startups, is back for a fourth time and seeking ambitious innovations to join its 2022 cohort.Launched in 2018, BioAccelerate is a programme of training and mentoring to help...

AberInnovation will lead three projects announced as successful under the UK-wide Community Renewal Fund (CRF) to deliver business support in Mid Wales.On Wednesday 3 November 2021, the UK Government published the list of bids put forward to UK Government, with AberInnovation’s Productivity...

Agxio, the revolutionary data science and machine learning specialists in the biotech, life sciences and agricultural sciences industries, has won the Leading Innovator in Applied AI & Machine Learning category in the Welsh Enterprise Awards 2021. The Awards programme celebrates Welsh...

Aberystwyth University is aiming to boost rural enterprises and start-ups through a network designed to share knowledge.With support from the Research Wales Innovation Fund, GRRaIN – Growth in Rural Resilience and Innovation Network – brings together enterprise activities from across...

AberInnovation celebrated its official opening on Thursday 21 October 2021 in a ceremony presided over by the Right Honourable Mark Drakeford MS, First Minister of Wales.Based on Aberystwyth University’s Gogerddan Campus, AberInnovation provides world-leading facilities and expertise for...

Aberystwyth University has entered the top 40 in The Times and The Sunday Times’ Good University Guide 2022, reflecting its strengths in teaching excellence and student satisfaction.The University ranks 38 out of 135 universities across the UK, an improvement upon last year’s rank of...

Following a virtual event organised by AberInnovation and in partnership with IoD Wales and Growing Mid Wales on the 15th of December 2020, key stakeholders have developed a list of five key messages for the region.Discussed during the event, these messages aim to demonstrate ways local...

Agxio is working with Farming Connect to demonstrate the potential of sensor technology applications on a number of demonstration farms across Wales. As part of the collaboration, Agxio are deploying Mercury, an advanced sensor network analytics platform, to interpret data from intelligent sensors...

AberInnovation’s BioAccelerate programme was brought to a close at the end of May with an expert panel deciding to award two £50,000 innovation grants to PlantSea and Conwy Kombucha.After extensive deliberation the panel chose PlantSea, a seaweed-based bioplastics start-up, and Conwy...

Three business affiliated with AberInnovation have been shortlisted for prestigious Wales Start-Up Awards where winners will be announced in Cardiff on 9 September 2021.The nominations are as follows:ARCITEKBio, Green Start-Up of the YearYma, Social Enterprise Start-Up of the YearStarfish...