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Start-up company FreshCheck is developing low-cost products that verify surface hygiene quickly and easily. It has already produced a spray product, using its unique colour changing technology, and with Innovate UK EDGE support, is now working on a wipe version. 

Supported by Innovate UK EDGE, a Darlington-based company is making a commercial success of its creative approaches to helping people with dementia, mild cognitive impairment, neurological conditions and mental health issues.

A UK agri-tech company that benefited from participation in Innovate UK’s Global Business Innovation Programme is now expanding in South Australia, a development welcomed by the State Government and Pernod Ricard Winemakers. 

Biotech Multus Biotechnology develops a game changing IP strategy, becomes investment ready and secures new partnerships as a platform for job growth, all with support from Innovate UK EDGE.

Are we about to see a robot revolution in agriculture? Even before Brexit and the COVID-19 pandemic, problems of labour supply were nothing new in farming (and use of pesticides is increasingly problematic). We need to produce more food for a growing world population, but without taking up more land or further contributing to climate change.

Agrisound is a York based Agri-tech start-up, established by founder and director Dr Casey Woodward, in January 2020. It aims to deploy 1 million low-cost sensors globally to enhance crop yields.