Applied Knowledge Exchange

A new green scheme that recycles food waste has been launched.
The Commercial Food Waste Collection Service, run by Keenan Recycling, creates BSI accredited compost from items such as leftover food, coffee grounds, cups and paper towels collected from businesses and restaurants in the North East.
First Minister Alex Salmond officially lanched the scheme. The Scottish Government [...]

The Scottish Funding Council has issued a new call for proposals to its Horizon Fund for knowledge exchange proposals addressing the needs of Scottish industry.
Resources available for projects in the latest call will be approximately £4m per annum for three years.
This year the call will focus on the key sectors identified in the Scottish Government’s [...]

AGRICO UK is working with Glasgow Caledonian University on a two-year Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP).
Knowledge Transfer Partnerships is Europe’s leading programme, helping business to improve their competitiveness and productivity through the better use of knowledge, technology and skills that reside within the UK knowledge base. 
With the help of Glasgow Caledonian University’s food science experts in [...]

Technology Transfer Opportunity Mechanism (TTOM) Awards have been set up to enable Scottish SMEs to transfer technology from Scotland’s Universities, and are now open for applications. The closing date is 27th August.
Grants of up to £5000 are available to tackle problems relevant to the SME, paid at a maximum rate of 75%, with the remaining 25% being [...]

This year’s Scottish Environmental Technology Network (SETN) annual conference will be held at Glasgow Caledonian University on 15th June 2010.   
The environmental technology conference is this year a collaboration between SETN and the Caledonian Environment Centre at Glasgow Caledonian University.
Caledonian Environment Centre will be supported by GCU’s business gateway, the Applied Knowledge Exchange.
Funded by the [...]

Tourism Minister Jim Mather has championed the resilience of Scotland’s tourism industry.
He commended the sector’s robust response to challenges brought by the continued tough economic climate and recent disruptions to air travel.
Glasgow Caledonian University’s tourism experts in the Moffat Centre produces the Visitor Attraction Monitor, an annual report on the performance of Scotland’s visitor attractions, with analysis by [...]

Glasgow Caledonian University’s Applied Knowledge Exchange was at the S2S Social Enterprise Fair this week. We enjoyed chatting with Social Enterprises, other universities and inviduals about the growing social enterprise sector.
Our PgC Social Enterprise course was a hot topic of the day!
Find out more from wwww.gcu.ac.uk/business or give us a ring on 0141 331 3139 [...]

The Applied Knowledge Exchange sponsored a successful Social Enterprise colloquium here at GCU this week.
We joined special guest speakers Karen Gilligan from Kibble, Tony Traynor from the Royal Bank of Scotland, Roana Dickson from GCU’s School of Health and Heather Sim from Space Unlimited.
Our speakers talked with our MBA and fourth year students about the [...]

The Applied Knowledge Exchange shall be going to the S2S fair in Edinburgh next month to promote its activities in Social Enterprise. Come and say hello to us at the exhibition!

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The Applied Knowledge Exchange attended Holyrood Magazine’s Enterprise Scotland 2010 event in Edinburgh to hear Minister for Enterprise, Energy and Tourism Jim Mather and Scottish Enterprise’s Lena Wilson give their visions for a stronger Scotland for business.
Lena Wilson insisted that Scotland’s businesses had ‘very serious challenges’ and were underperforming against the UK economy and [...]