University of Birmingham will lead a connected system of incubators after Midlands Innovation secured a $7.1m award from Research England.
Midlands Innovation, a group of eight universities in the UK’s Midlands region, yesterday announced the launch of a connected system of incubators and accelerators, called Midlands Innovation Commercialisation of Research Accelerator (Micra).
Micra will be led by University of Birmingham. The remaining institutions in the partnership include Aston, Cranfield, Keele, Leicester, Loughborough, Nottingham and Warwick universities.
The eight partners first revealed plans to develop a unified approach to technology transfer in December 2017.
Micra has secured…
