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Highland Fling, 2001
Scotland's premier capital-raising event for small hi-tech companies,
Connect, will be held in Edinburgh on October 22-23rd, says director
Ian McDonald.
"For the past four years more than 75% of the 113 companies which
presented have raised money at the event," said Mr McDonald.
Until now, all of these have been Scottish firms - but he believes
there will be submissions from English, mainly Yorkshire, companies
at the October event.
"There's still an appetite from investors, who want to meet high-quality
companies," he said.
www.connectonthenet.com
0131 650 9067
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New
Era at EUREKA
Europe's little-known crossborder technical collaboration scheme for
SMEs - Eureka - agreed 190 new projects with a budget of Euro 493m,
at its annual ministers conference, held this year in Madrid under
the Spanish chairmanship.
The 31-member country scheme also gave the go-ahead to 63 new sub-projects
from seven large cluster projects, giving a budget total of Euro 2,263m.
Estonia and Slovak Republic joined Eureka this year.
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Money for
New Rope
More than £3.5m has been allocated by the National Endowment
for Science, Technology and the Arts to 45 projects invented by British
innovators.
One involves development of a bicycle pedal that uses high-brightness
LEDs to improve road visibility: a second focuses on heat-treated
knitted material made from a mix of plastic and other fibres.
www.nesta.org.uk
020 7645 9500
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