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WAG: The team of Welsh inventors behind a unique powered stretching machine have won the top award at the International Invention show of the Middle East (IIME) in Kuwait.
The Sports Injury Rehabilitation Assistant (SIRA) - the first powered stretching machine of its kind - earned Robert Clarke & John Lockwood of Gorseinon, the gold medal for the best medical device at the show and also the best invention at the show, which carries a US $15,000 prize.
The Sports Injury Rehabilitation Assistant (SIRA) - the first powered stretching machine of its kind - earned Robert Clarke & John Lockwood of Gorseinon, the gold medal for the best medical device at the show and also the best invention at the show, which carries a US $15,000 prize.
IIME is the second largest such fair in the world after the Geneva Convention where this year SIRA also won The World Intellectual Property Organisation’s Gold Medal for Best Inventors 2010 – the first time in its fifteen years history that this award has been won by the UK.
BIS: The Government has announced a public-private joint venture that firmly establishes the award winning Daresbury Science and Innovation Campus (Daresbury SIC) in Cheshire as one of the world’s principal locations for scientific research, innovative technology development and entrepreneurial collaboration.
The 20-year joint venture creates a 50:50 partnership between the public (STFC, Langtree, Halton Borough Council and North West Development Agency) and private sectors that will bring more than 6,000 jobs to the area during its lifetime, attracting further domestic & international positive inward investment in world class scientific research and innovation.
