Dundee University spin-out M-Squared Lasers is planning for a period of accelerated growth after securing £3.25m ($5m) in financial support.
The Scotland-based firm secured a £2.5m funding package from Barclays bank, and an additional £750,000 from the Business Growth Fund (BGF) – an investment vehicle backed by six of the UK’s largest banks with £2.5bn in backing.
The firm previously raised £3.85m in 2012 in a round backed by BGF, and a further £1.2m later the same year from the…
The University of Kentucky has formed an industry-university partnership to advance aspects such as sustainable agriculture in the whiskey distilling industry.
The £40m recently allocated by the UK government to proving university research is commercially viable shouldn't just benefit Oxford, Cambridge and London say sector pundits.
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