Image Credit: University of Essex: The new centre creates a Science Square here at the heart of the Campus for the first time and also for the first time gives all six departments in the University’s Faculty of Science and Health a shared collaborative and social space.
Image Credit: Above Surveying: The KTP’s combination of artificial intelligence, machine learning and computer vision will help Above Surveying to maintain their position as a market leader in the solar sector by delivering technologically advanced and intuitive inspection and analysis services to the booming solar sector.
Above Surveying’s recent success is creating jobs in the region with the company planning to recruit a further ten members of staff in 2019 to meet demand. The new partnership with Essex will also allow Above Surveying to expand its international reach even further.
The University of Essex is leading a £50,000 project that a could bring further Government investment worth up to £26m to the Eastern region to help local industries increase productivity. Essex is one of 24 ambitious projects that received early-stage funding from the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)’s ‘Strength in Places’ grant to develop full-stage bids that could lead to significant economic growth in places across the country.
Image Credit: University of Essex: The new phase of the University of Essex’s Parkside Office Village is 100% let with companies and organisations showing huge enthusiasm for moving onto the University’s £100m Knowledge Gateway research and technology park in Colchester.
The University of Essex is celebrating being in the top five in the UK for developing technology-driven business partnerships. The latest figures from the government’s innovation agency, Innovate UK (part of UKRI) confirm that it is the leading university in London and the south of England for Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs).
Image Credit: University of Essex: The inspiration offered by the University of Essex’s radical past helped it to secure the title of University of the Year at the Times Higher Education (THE) Awards 2018. The awards, now in their 14th year and widely referred to as the ‘Oscars of higher education’, shine a spotlight on the exceptional achievements of individuals, teams and institutions working in the education sector today.
Robotics experts at the University of Essex are working with world-famous jam makers Wilkin & Sons of Tiptree to look at ways of picking strawberries with robots.
The need to embrace technology to radically improve how the NHS successfully delivers its services is behind a new partnership between the University of Essex and Provide CIC. The Innovate UK-funded Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) will look at how artificial intelligence (AI) can help the NHS cope with the increasing demands of the 21st century by catering for people’s changing needs of how they use services.
Image Credit: Geocurve Specialist Surveyors: Geocurve, in conjunction with the University of Essex, has developed a room-scale virtual reality suite at their base in Kelvedon. With this resource, using drone-captured imagery, the company is developing 3D models by geo-referencing and stitching together many high-resolution images.
Live footage from big sporting events like the Ryder Cup and the Grand Prix could be revolutionised by a partnership between Essex and ABER Electronics. RF and microwave design specialist ABER Electronics has started a two-year Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) with Essex to transform their sector-leading product offer. The Colchester-based company claims to manufacture the smallest and best performing RF amplifiers on the market that are already helping to massively improve the way television companies are broadcasting live events.