CONNECT Scotland, the nation's leading technology network, and the School of Informatics, a global research leader, invite you to join us as we showcase the next wave of investment opportunities.
- Engage this environment, community and network as we invent the future;
- View the Informatics Forum: a landmark centre for innovation and interaction;
- Listen to pitches from our nascent and ambitious high-tech entrepreneurs; and
- Tell us what deals and relationships interest you.
| Format: | Technology showcase, demonstrations, pitching, great company and fine food and drink. |
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| Venue: | School of Informatics, Appleton Tower, Edinburgh, EH8 9LE Click for a map and directions |
| Date: | Wednesday 23rd April, 2008 |
| Time: | 4pm - 7pm |
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The 23rd April event is an opportunity to see how we are exploiting, in the most positive sense of the word, our world-class research. Further details on the ventures pitching and demonstrating are in the sections to the left.
As way of some context; we feel that Edinburgh is one of the most exciting places in Europe to do high-tech high-growth deals at the moment, with a record commercialisation year in 2006-2007 and the UK’s most successful university spin-out achieved to date (MTEM Ltd, bought for US$275M). Significant growth and investment in research and commercialisation infrastructure makes the future prospects even more encouraging.
Informatics is the new enlightenment and is shaping future developments in science, technology and society. Computing technology changed the ways we live, work and play - Informatics is changing the way we think and understand life and the world. For over half a century the University of Edinburgh has been at the centre of this revolution, and is widely recognised around the globe as contributing to the foundations of computer science, cognitive science and artificial intelligence.
The School of Informatics was the only UK Computer Science department awarded the (highest possible) “5 Star A” rating in the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise and we understand this to have strengthened in the 2008 rating. Ranked number one in the Guardian University Guide 2008, we are also Europe’s biggest research group in this area, twice as large as the next comparable department.
So for investors we represent depth, scale and quality; and regard MIT, Stanford and Carnegie Mellon amongst our global “peers”.
