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The Prince of Wales Innovation Scholarships, is attracting the world’s most talented graduates to study and to work in research and development with Welsh businesses and multinational businesses with a base in Wales. The scholarships, and associated Visiting Innovators programme, bring top academics and industrialists to Wales and are part of the Global Academy, developed with partners including the Welsh Assembly Government and NESTA. - NESTA

OpenBusiness is planning 40Fires in partnership with NESTA, a conference on Open Hardware on the 4th of December. The conference is an opportunity to educate engineers, tinkerers and designers alike on Open Hardware, a growing frontier in the field of innovation. - NESTA

Allowing staff and patients to design healthcare services might save the NHS £20bn by 2014, according to NESTA. - NESTA

The NHS can save over £20bn by 2014 if clinicians and patients are given the right to design healthcare services claims a new report by NESTA. - NESTA

A new report by NESTA estimates potential savings of more than £20bn in the next five years - if the NHS allowed patients and professionals to design their own services. - NESTA

Allowing doctors and patients to design healthcare services could save the NHS £20bn by 2014, according to NESTA. - NESTA

If the NHS used technology imaginatively for self care interventions, it could save up to £3bn, NESTA have said. - NESTA

What is the ‘science’ behind today’s fast-growth companies? What is happening that is new and innovative, and who are the people behind it? What are venture capitalists looking for in environmental and consumer internet start-ups, and why? Going after the incumbents; is taking on the ‘big guys’ good strategy or fool’s errand? These are some of the questions which will be discussed at the 'Silicon Valley Comes to Cambridge' event 19-21 November 2009, which has been organised by NESTA. - NESTA

Speaking at the launch of a NESTA discussion paper “The Human Factor“, Lansley outlined what he saw as the two key problems with the NHS. - NESTA

NESTA commissioned us to produce a guide for creative start ups to be used as an educational tool for entreprenuers and graduates within the creative sector. - NESTA

NESTA reported that the NHS could save $33 billion by 2014 by “putting the public, clinicians, doctors, and nurses at the heart of how health care and public services are delivered,” Stian Westlake from NESTA told CNBC Wednesday. - NESTA

Shadow Culture Minister Ed Vaizey told the British industry gathering at BAFTA to discuss the future of gaming: "NESTA's research suggests the UK videogames sector could shrink by 16.5 per cent over five years, resulting in the loss of more than GBP 180 million in external investment and nearly 1700 jobs," he added. "I would love nothing more than to work with you to facilitate the investment and risk-taking the industry needs... Britain is broke, but this creates an opportunity to shape policies that assist the high tech entrepreneurs that will drive our economy in the future. The video games sector must play a key part in this." - NESTA

Shadow Culture Minister Ed Vaizey said despite its accomplishments, the UK games industry is "under threat" from lack of government support and rising global competition. Research by NESTA also suggests the UK video games sector could shrink by 16.5% over five years, resulting in the loss of more than £180m in external investment and nearly 1700 jobs. - NESTA

Shadow Culture Minister Ed Vaizey has slammed the UK Labour government for its lack of support for the domestic games industry. “NESTA’s research suggests the UK videogames sector could shrink by 16.5 per cent over five years, resulting in the loss of more than £180m in external investment and nearly 1,700 jobs.” Said Vaizey. - NESTA

Minister for Science and Innovation Lord Drayson announced the appointment of two new trustees to the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA). Dr Mike Lynch OBE has been appointed as a Trustee, and will also serve as Chair of the NESTA Investment Committee, and Rob Woodward has been appointed as a Trustee with responsibility for representing Scottish interests. - NESTA

Shadow Culture Minister Ed Vaizey told the British industry gathering at BAFTA to discuss the future of gaming: "NESTA's research suggests the UK videogames sector could shrink by 16.5 per cent over five years, resulting in the loss of more than GBP 180 million in external investment and nearly 1700 jobs," he added. "I would love nothing more than to work with you to facilitate the investment and risk-taking the industry needs... Britain is broke, but this creates an opportunity to shape policies that assist the high tech entrepreneurs that will drive our economy in the future. The video games sector must play a key part in this." - NESTA

Darina (Co-Director of Suklaa) and Claudia recently teamed up and put together a tender for the idiscover Programme Manager post for NESTA. The idiscover programme is happening in London and Manchester- over the next two years- and we are working with the London Schools who are all part of The Harris Federation in South East London. - NESTA

Hide&Seek have teamed up with Sheffield Doc/Fest to provide festivalgoers the unique opportunity to transform from audience members into the stars of a new social gaming experience. 'Playmakers' is a joint project from Hide&Seek, NESTA, and ThinkPublic. - NESTA

Shadow Culture Minister Ed Vaizey told the British industry gathering at BAFTA to discuss the future of gaming: "NESTA's research suggests the UK videogames sector could shrink by 16.5 per cent over five years, resulting in the loss of more than GBP 180 million in external investment and nearly 1700 jobs," he added. "I would love nothing more than to work with you to facilitate the investment and risk-taking the industry needs... Britain is broke, but this creates an opportunity to shape policies that assist the high tech entrepreneurs that will drive our economy in the future. The video games sector must play a key part in this." - NESTA

Speaking today at the London Games Conference, Shadow Culture Minister Ed Vaizey outlined far-reaching proposals to back one of the UK’s high-tech success stories, the video games sector. Unfortunately, the UK is falling far behind. NESTA’s research suggests the UK video games sector could shrink by 16.5% over five years, resulting in the loss of more than £180m in external investment and nearly 1700 jobs. - NESTA

Research by NESTA suggests the UK video games sector could shrink by 16.5% over five years, resulting in the loss of more than £180m in external investment and nearly 1700 jobs. Shadow Culture Minister Ed Vaizey discusses his vision for the UK games industry under a Conservative Government. - NESTA