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SInC Welcomes its 200th tenant

Tuesday, September 7th, 2010

Sussex Innovation Centre is thrilled at welcoming its 200th tenant, Inset Online Ltd. Since opening of the centre in 1996, SInC has been priviledged to work with a number of fantastic companies, and ground breaking technologies and we look forward to welcoming many more in the future too!

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SInC awarded Global Entrepreneurship Week High Impact Badge of Honour

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

SInC recognised for exposing people to life-changing entrepreneurial experiences!

Global Entrepreneurship Week Badge of Honour

SInC’s ‘Innovations in Health’ event has been awarded the High Impact Badge of Honour. This facinating event, which took place during Global Entrepreneurship Week 2009, competed with 4,800 other events to be recognised with this special status!

Melanie Farmer, SInC’s Innovation Support Manager commented “We are delighted to recieve this recognition for our Innovations in Health event. The SInC team take a great deal of time to make sure our events are of the highest quality and we look forward to delighting future entrepreneurial audiences at SInC”.

To view the full list of award winners and find out which of your events was determined to be High Impact, go to: www.gew.org.uk/events/high_impact_events

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Disaster Recovery and Remote Working Event

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

Today the Sussex Innovation Centre hosted an event “Disaster Recovery and Remote Working” featuring three expert speakers: Tony Gimple, managing director of Lewes-based Crisis Survivor, Tony Fellingham, commercial insurance consultant from Crest Insurance and Jason Vaughan-Phillips from CloudData .

Speakers presentations:

Presentation Disaster Recovery and Remote Working: Tony Fellingham, Crest.
Presentation Disaster Recovery and Remote Working: Jason Vaughan-Phillips, Cloud Data

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How Sussex businesses can take remote control – The Argus

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

Every snow cloud has a silver lining – if you’re involved in cloud computing technology.

The system, in which computer hardware and software are pooled centrally and accessed via the internet, is becoming increasingly popular as high-speed broadband becomes widely available.

As well as saving IT costs, the technology can be remotely accessed, which is vital for firms wanting to keep going during snow storms, like last month’s Big Freeze.

It is estimated the disruption cost the Sussex economy £6 million a day as businesses were forced to shut because staff could not make it into work.

But the cold snap was a boon for at least one company, Clouddata, based at the Sussex Innovation Centre at the University of Sussex Falmer campus.

To read the full Argus article click here or to register for the SInC ’Remote working and disaster recovery’ seminar on 23rd Feb at 10.00am click here.

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Bubblephone Becomes First Company to Win Second Round funding from MoD’s Dragon’s Den

Friday, February 12th, 2010

Transformational networking software beats 1,000 applicants

Bubblephone Ltd, a communications software company, has been chosen from more than 1,000 applicants to be the first company to be awarded second round funding from the UK Ministry of Defence’s (MoD) Centre for Defence Enterprise (CDE). The Sussex Innovation Centre and Brighton-based company has received a contract valued at £43,000 to deliver a beta–version of its intelligent C-THRU network optimisation software. The technology has the potential to transform the reliability and quality of the MoD’s tactical communications network, while helping save lives and money. “This award underlines the value of CDE as a cost-effective way to access leading-edge technology and get it into the field quickly,” said Sean Curtis-Ward, Bubblephone’s CEO. “Also, it represents a strong endorsement for our adaptive software which we believe has huge commercial potential outside of the defence sector.”

Since its inception 18 months ago, the CDE has received more that 1,000 proposals from companies – mainly small to medium-sized businesses. The initiative, which has been likened to TV’s Dragon’s Den, is designed to enable the MoD to exploit new and emerging technologies that are already being researched or developed and get them into the field rapidly.

The MoD is interested in the use of C-THRU in its BOWMAN tactical military communications network – a mission critical system that contains different network types (such as VHF, UHF and satellite) and where transmission quality and reliability are paramount. The new contract will involve Bubblephone delivering a beta-version of C-THRU with a view to its test, development and integration into BOWMAN. It will collaborate closely with General Dynamics UK, which will provide additional equipment and expertise. In January 2009, Bubblephone received a feasibility contract from the CDE valued at £49,000. Work under the contract culminated in a demonstration in October 2009 of C-THRU on a special test network. Just three weeks later, C-THRU was further demonstrated to MoD staff on battlefield-ready kit over a subset of the BOWMAN tactical communications network. This was undertaken at the EDGE™ UK demonstration suite at General Dynamics UK’s facility in South Wales.

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Ex Sinc company AnimaLive win Best New Product award at IAAPA Las Vegas

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

AnimaLive, ex tenants at Sussex Innovation Centre, were awarded the First Place Award for Best New Product for Show Production and Entertainment at the anual IAAPA conference and expo in Las Vegas.

Examples of AnimaLive technology submitted to the IAAPA Board included the ChatterBox installation at Sea Life Brighton which features a live animated turtle character that greets guests and provides environmental information, and the bespoke configuration used within the interactive theatrical show “Looney Tunes Live – The Experiment.

“Over the last year we have worked extremely hard to make attractions out of our technology. This award acknowledges that we are on the right path to a successful 2010”, says Ali Kord Technical Director, AnimaLive

The SeaLife Center attraction was designed in collaboration with Max Leviston the General Manager of the Brighton UK Center, and is used to educate visitors to environmental issues concerning the endangered Green Sea Turtle.

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Bubblephone launches a new military technology financed by MOD

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

Bubblephone, which is based at the Sussex Innovation Centre of the University of Sussex, succeeded in getting one their projects financed by The Ministry of Defence, as part of an initiative to help connect the military with innovative small business, inventors, and academia. Around 150 proposals have been given research funding under the scheme that was launched 18 months ago.

Bubblephone was awarded £49,000 for its C-THRU technology. The MOD said that Bubblephone allows network connections to be maintained despite changes in the environment and also prioritises network traffic. “It does this by constantly being aware of the network environment and intelligently ‘adapting’ itself to keep open the best connection. For example, if a wireless connection is lost due to mountainous terrain, C-THRU will seamlessly failover to a different network type or connection method. It also prioritises traffic so that urgent communications always get through,”

While the MOD is keen to characterise the benefits of Bubblephone for helping troops in remote areas stay in touch, the company says that its technology has more consumer-oriented benefits such as tackling the increasing need for bandwidth. Bubblephone says that it originally planned to build a piece of software that would join up lots of different telephone networks, but realised its software could solve problems affecting Internet traffic flow and reliability.

“If you imagine a congested road, full of traffic running through a high street,” said company managing director, Sean Curtis-Ward, “then C-THRU is the bus lane that allows essential traffic to move along the road, without obstruction. We don’t make the road wider, we just make sure that there’s always a route open regardless of how bad the traffic is.”

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City could share in £30m for electric vehicles charging bays

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

The Government has launched a £30 million grant scheme to promote the installation of charging points for electric cars. A development that can only be good news for Brighton & Hove with a cutting edge advantage in the field of sustainable transport.

Transport Secretary Lord Adonis announced yesterday that the Government intends to promote up to six cities (or entire regions) as Plugged-in Places that will have charging points for electric cars and will act as trailblazers for electric car technology. He called for public/private sector partnerships to compete for £30 million in government grants. Groups of investors will be asked to match the government funds.

Lord Adonis said: “Our aim is for electric and lowcarbon cars to be an everyday feature of life on UK’s roads in less than five years”.

Overall, the Government is investing around £400m to encourage the development, manufacture and use of next generation ultra-low carbon vehicles. Delivered by the Office for Low Emission Vehicles this support is being targeted to create new jobs in a low carbon automotive sector and to cut carbon from UK road transport.

Brighton & Hove is already ahead of the game in this respect with the first of three electric charging points have been installed in the city (see earlier story) by Elektromotive based in the Sussex Innovation Centre (SInC) at the University of Sussex Falmer Campus (see earlier story).

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Accelerated Business Growth – The Superincubation Story Podcast

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

In mid 2007 Greig Holbrook, Managing Director of Oban Multilingual, knew he had a huge opportunity with his expertise in Multilingual search engine optimisation but was struggling to take full advantage. Based at the Sussex Innovation Centre (SInC) he decided to use a new SInC product, Superincubation, to help him structure and focus intensively on the growth of his business. In this podcast Greig gives his frank feedback on the process and how it worked for Oban.

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