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3M BIC and partners inspire regional businesses to embrace innovation Over 100 businesses from across the Leeds City Region took part in a week-long event (4-8 November) at the 3M…

The 3M BIC’s Innovation Week (4-8 November) kicked off yesterday with its opening event designed to inspire entrepreneurial students to adopt innovation. Hosted by strategic design consultancy, The Engine Room,…

In an age where technology is developing at a rate of knots, businesses are under pressure to think outside the box and be ahead of the game in order to…

Congratulations to DOYYEC student Kierhardy Ansell who recently became runner up in the Santander Universities Entrepreneurship Awards 2019, winning £15,000 worth of seed funding towards his innovative skating business. Skate…

The University of Huddersfield and the 3M BIC have been shortlisted in the Times Higher Education (THE) Awards 2019 for their commitment to closing the gap between academic and industry…

Are you looking to develop a new or existing product? Do you want to increase productivity and efficiency? Do you want to follow in the footsteps of Netflix, Deliveroo and…

KC Communications has been shortlisted in the Community and Economy categories of The West & North Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce’s Raising the Bar Awards for their efforts in bringing Huddersfield…

Huddersfield’s first business week has been hailed a success as hundreds of delegates across the Yorkshire region attended to take part in the 40 events hosted throughout the week by…

Innovation is at the heart of what we do here at the 3M Buckley Innovation Centre and this year sees the launch of our inaugural Innovation Week which is being…

The 3M Buckley Innovation Centre are looking for an organised and proactive individual to join their team! Please see position below: Part Time (22.5 hours per week) – Executive Assistant…

Huddersfield based copywriter and 3MBIC network member Rob Beadle has signed a new client who works with businesses to plan their legacies. The Legacy Studio help individuals and business owners with…

3D technology is being used to preserve one of Huddersfield’s iconic landmarks, the statue of Harold Wilson in St. George’s Square. The prominent 8ft (2.4m) statue of the town’s very…

Huddersfield based copywriter Rob Beadle will train local businesses at Barnsley’s first Business Growth Convention in September. The event will give business owners and managers advice on sales, marketing and…

Sewtec has been named as ‘one to watch’ in one of the world’s largest and longest running business competitions, the European Business Awards. Shortlisted for the ‘digital technology award’ for…

Sewtec has been ranked among the top four per cent of the world’s most sustainable automation companies in a leading global supply chain survey. We were awarded a gold corporate…

Our design and visualisation manager, Paul Tallon, was invited to speak at the 10th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2019), which took place in Washington, US,…

Huddersfield marketing and PR agency KC Communications is celebrating a hat-trick of client wins having been appointed by organisations in the manufacturing and construction sectors. Specialist Glass Products (SGP), Yorkshire…

3D printing is a core part of our offering at the 3M BIC for businesses looking to use this technology for product development. However, we’re often left with wasted plastic…

Olympus Technologies Ltd specialises in Industrial and Collaborative Robotics, Automation and Welding Technologies, enabling the automation of a large range of processes across all business sectors, e.g. machine tending, gluing,…

West Yorkshire robotics firm Sewtec has upped its financial targets after it doubled its turnover to more than £28m. The Dewsbury and Wakefield firm’s turnaround under Leeds-based private equity firm…

Huddersfield based PR & Marketing communications agency, KC Communications, has promoted Account Manager, Laura Batchelor to Client Services Director as it restructures the business to support future growth ambitions, which…

Key features UK businesses can apply for a share of up to £1.7 million to develop innovative technologies for global composites markets with US partners. Programme Innovate UK Award Share…

The University of Huddersfield offers many postgraduate research programmes at both Masters and Doctoral level, but the Masters and Doctor of Enterprise are perhaps less well documented https://students.hud.ac.uk/enterprise/enterprisedegrees/. With a view…

The 3M BIC alongside the University of Huddersfield recently won the Tech Investment category at the National Technology Awards, which recognised our investment in technology in response to the needs…

Two new members have joined the technology team at the 3M BIC over the last few months. Stephen Knowles joins as Technical Assistant and Georgina Kipling as Technical Assessor. Prior…

A call for creative and tech businesses: stage 2 is launching on Monday 20 May 2019. The current phase of Audience of the Future Challenge launched in March 2019, with a new…

On April 2nd 2019, the Google+ platform closed its doors and shut all accounts down for good. It was originally launched back in 2011 as a social network (replacing Google…

The 3M BIC and IoT Tribe hosted a successful event on 10 April around ‘Building the Northern Industrial Digital Technology Ecosystem’ that brought together the North’s leading digital and manufacturing…

The NPL Manufacturer Measurement Network held its second quarterly members event on 16 April entitled ‘Succession Planning & the Skills Mix for Manufacturers’ at the 3M BIC. The event was…